The Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kit (PEAK) Pain podcast series consists of 5 episodes that all focus on different aspects of assessing, managing, and supporting the pediatric patient in pain. This series was coproduced by the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC) in collaboration with yours truly (PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast), Dr. Julia Magaña and Dr. Sarah Medeiros (EM Pulse Podcast), Dr. Joelle Donofrio-Odmann and Dr. Joseph Finney (The Pediatric EMS Podcast), Dr. Bryan Allen and Dr. Sean Fox (EM Guidewire), and Dr. Mike Patrick, Dr. DJ Scherzer, and child life specialist, Courtney Hall (PediaCast CME Podcast). I collaborated with the creators of each podcast to develop a set of learning objectives that complement each other. The end result is a set of five podcast episodes that each tackle different considerations regarding pain management in the pre-hospital and Emergency Department setting. The perspectives range from a tight clinical focus, to non-physician team members (child life FTW!), and pre-hospital providers.
PEAK: Pain Podcast series from the EMSC Innovation & Improvement Center
Ouch-less Pediatrics
Hosts: Joelle Donofrio-Odmann, DO Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego and UC San Diego School of Medicine, and Dr. Joseph Finney, MD, Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine and EMS Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
May 11, 2022
Safely and effectively managing pain in our pediatric patients is a primary responsibility for our EMS clinicians. Medical directors must be able to identify gaps in pediatric pain management and provide the necessary QA/QI to close those gaps. In this episode we focus on exactly that, with several experts in EMS joining us to offer their knowledge and critical appraisal of the evidence in order to identify and close the gaps in the management of pain in children.
Please Don’t Hurt Me!
Hosts: Dr. Julia Magaña, Associate Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UC Davis and Dr. Sarah Medeiros, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis
Guests: Kimberly Wheatley, RN, UC Davis Pediatric Nurse, and Katheryn Finan, UC Davis Child Life Specialist
June 18, 2022
Kids, pain, and the emergency department can be a set up for disaster. In this podcast, three pediatric specialists get into why that is and how we can all be better at treating kids in pain.
Pain management for laceration repair in children
Host: Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd, Associate Professor Division of Emergency Medicine Cincinnati Children’s and University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics
June 21, 2022
Laceration repair is one of the quintessential procedures that children undergo in Emergency Departments. Minimizing pain and anxiety for children is a much better idea than just holding them down and getting it done. This episode will teach you all about local anesthetics, when to use anxiolytics and procedural sedations s well as the considerable value of nonpharmacologic intervention – including Child Life Specialists.
Pediatric pain management
Hosts: Bryant Allen, MD Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, and Sean Fox Professor of Emergency Medicine &
Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center
June 29, 2022
Join the EMGuidewire team and Drs. Allen and Fox from Carolinas Medical Center as they discuss tips for mitigating anxiety and pain in the pediatric patient.
Pediatric Pain… from the Family Perspective
Host: Mike Patrick, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and an Attending Physician with the Section of Emergency Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Guests: David J. Scherzer Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and an Attending Physician with the Section of Emergency Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Courtney Hall, Child Life Specialist Nationwide Children’s Hospital
August 24, 2022
Dr. DJ Scherzer and child life specialist, Courtney Hall, visit the studio as we consider pediatric pain… from the family perspective. Acute pain not only impacts children; it also affects the entire family. Learn why… and how pediatric providers can help.
About the EMSC Innovation & Improvement Center
This podcast season was a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the EMS for children continuum. To learn more about the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center visit https://emscimprovement.center
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Disclaimer
The Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.
