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\nnAtionAl AssociAtion of Ems physiciAns  \npEdiAtric EquipmEnt guidElinEs committEE—EmErgEncy mEdicAl sErvicEs for childrEn (Emsc) pArtnErship for childrEn stAkEholdEr group  \nAmEricAn AcAdEmy of pEdiAtrics  \nAlmost four decades ago, the Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) developed a list of standardized equipment for ambulances. Beginning in 1988, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) published a similar list. The two organizations collaborated on a joint document published in 2000, and the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) participated in the 2005 revision. The 2005 revision included resources needed on ambulances for appropriate homeland security. All three organizations adhere to the principle that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers at all levels must have the appropriate equipment and supplies to optimize prehospital delivery of care. The document was written to serve as a standard for the equipment needs of emergency ambulance services both in the United States and Canada.  \nEMS providers care for patients of all ages, who have a wide variety of medical and traumatic conditions. With permission from the ACS COT, ACEP, and NAEMSP, the current revision includes updated pediatric recommendations developed by members of the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Stakeholder Group. The EMSC Program has developed several performance measures for the Program’s State Partnership grantees. One of the performance measures evaluates the availability of essential pediatric equipment and supplies for Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support patient care units. This document will be used as the standard for this performance measure. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has also officially endorsed this list.  \nFor purposes of this document, the following definitions have been used: a neonate is 0–28 days old, an infant is 29 days to 1 year old, and a child is >1 year through 11 years old with delineation into the following developmental stages:  \nToddlers (1–3 years old)  \nPreschoolers (3–5 years old) Middle Childhood (6–11 years old) Adolescents (12–18 years old)  \nThese standard definitions are age based. Length-based systems have been developed to more accurately estimate the weight of children and predict appropriate equipment sizes, medication doses, and guidelines for fluid volume administration.  \nprinciples of prehospital care  \nThe goal of prehospital care is to minimize further systemic insult or injury and manage lifethreatening conditions through a series of well defined and appropriate interventions, and to embrace principles that ensure patient safety. High-quality, consistent emergency care demands continuous quality improvement and is directly dependent on the effective monitoring, integration, and evaluation of all components of the patient’s care.  \nIntegral to this process is medical oversight of prehospital care by using preexisting protocols (indirect medical oversight), which are evidence-based when possible, or by medical control via voice and/or video communication (direct medical oversight). The protocols that guide patient care should be established collaboratively by medical directors  \nEquipmEnt for AmbulAncEs  \nfor ambulance services, adult and pediatric emergency medicine physicians, adult and pediatric trauma surgeons, and appropriately trained basic and advanced emergency medical personnel. Current Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations encourage each EMS agency to have a pediatric coordinator to specifically coordinate the capability of the service to care for nonadult patients.  \nEquipment and supplies  \nThe guidelines list the supplies and equipment that should be stocked on ambulances to provide the accepted standards of patient care. 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