The Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals Course and the Pediatric Assessment Triangle: A 25-Year Retrospective.

The American Academy of Pediatrics established the Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP) Course in 1998. A national PEPP Task Force rolled out the first courses in 2000, and PEPP rapidly became a foundational pediatric knowledge source in prehospital education. The backbone of the PEPP course is the pediatric assessment triangle (PAT), a simple assessment tool to help determine if an infant or child is "sick" or "not sick", to identify the likely type of pathophysiology, and to gauge the urgency for intervention.

Maternal and infant predictors of infant mortality in California, 2007-2015.

Objective: To identify current maternal and infant predictors of infant mortality, including maternal sociodemographic and economic status, maternal perinatal smoking and obesity, mode of delivery, and infant birthweight and gestational age.

Methods: This retrospective study analyzed data from the linked birth and infant death files (birth cohort) and live births from the Birth Statistical Master files (BSMF) in California compiled by the California Department of Public Health for 2007-2015. The birth cohort study comprised 4,503,197 singleton births including 19,301 infant deaths during the nine-year study period.

Smoking during Pregnancy and Adverse Birth and Maternal Outcomes in California, 2007 to 2016.

Objective: This study aimed to determine associations between maternal cigarette smoking and adverse birth and maternal outcomes.

Study Design: This is a 10-year population-based retrospective cohort study including 4,971,896 resident births in California. Pregnancy outcomes of maternal smokers were compared with those of nonsmokers.

English-based Pediatric Emergency Medicine Software Improves Physician Test Performance on Common Pediatric Emergencies: A Multicenter Study in Vietnam.

Introduction: Global health agencies and the Vietnam Ministry of Health have identified pediatric emergency care and health information technology as high priority goals. Clinical decision support (CDS) software provides physicians with access to current literature to answer clinical queries, but there is limited impact data in developing countries. We hypothesized that Vietnamese physicians will demonstrate improved test performance on common pediatric emergencies using CDS technologies despite being in English.

The pediatric assessment triangle: a novel approach for the rapid evaluation of children.

The Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) has become the cornerstone for the Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals course, sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This concept for emergency assessment of children has been taught to more than 170,000 health care providers worldwide. It has been incorporated into most standardized American life support courses, including the Pediatric Advanced Life Support course, Advanced Pediatric Life Support course, and the Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course.

Education of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Medical Personnel in Pediatrics: Report of a National Task Force.

The Pediatric Education Task Force has developed a list of major topics and skills for inclusion in pediatric curricula for EMS providers. Areas of controversy in the management of pediatric patients in the prehospital setting are outlined, and helpful learning tools are identified. [Gausche M, Henderson DB, Brownstein D, Foltin GL, for the Pediatric Education Task Force: Education of out-of-hospital emergency medical personnel in pediatrics: Report of a National Task Force.