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  • 1.  Pediatric IV Education

    Posted 20 days ago
    We have a good number of nurses who have either never started IVs on Pediatric patients, or it's been a while since they have. Does anyone have any resources or educational material on the insertion of pediatric IVs? Other than being there in the moment with a real patient? It's difficult to simulate inserting one on a crying or screaming kid on a stretcher. 
    Does anyone have a Pediatric IV Competency that they use?
    Thank you in advance.


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    Michael Zonak MSN, RN, CEN, CNL, CPEN
    Chapter President
    Palm Beach County Chapter
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  • 2.  RE: Pediatric IV Education

    Posted 19 days ago

    Hi Michael. The ImPACTS group have made a couple of videos on pedi IV insertion. One is didactic, the other is how to make a simulated pedi arm for less than $10. You will have to have a soundtrack for the crying, but a good "mom hold" and I-Pad or phone video can minimize that! haha. There are a couple of competencies online, maybe a family centered care competency that includes IV insertion would be more helpful? EMSC has a competency template!

    https://www.impactscollaborative.com/ed-resources 

    https://emscimprovement.center/domains/pediatric-readiness-project/readiness-toolkit-checklist/section-4-improve/care-team-competencies/pediatric-vascular-access-competency-sample-checklist/

    Good luck!!

    Cam Brandt



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    Cam Brandt
    the3brandts@verizon.net
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  • 3.  RE: Pediatric IV Education

    Posted 19 days ago
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    Morning Michael

    So, here's the quick scoop that we've found in our peds skills labs - 1) regrettably no amazing peds IV manequins that we've come across - several are out there & to no surprise, some are better than others, but none that in my humble experience were amazing 2) as cam mentioned, EMSC has several great resources & I love the idea of the crying soundtrack (great idea!) 3) I'm attaching a short video of the best way that we've come across to practice peds IVs - it's gross, but works great - pig hearts - from the butcher or other source - the outside coronary arteries as shown on the video are grey/pearlescent in color - various sizes (LAD is huge - collaterals or down stream vessels much smaller) - "popping" into the vessel (artery or vein) i.e. through the membrane takes just a tiny bit more force than you would imagine, but after a one time, people have no worries with subseqent attempts - you can stick 'em, thread 'em, flush 'em - as many times as you wish - 24-22g IV's - but, note, this doesn't work with the preserved/embalmed hearts you can find from medical supply stores 

    hope this helps & wish there was an amazing peds IV trainer out there - we just haven't found it yet - but in the interim, this trick has been our most popular

    cheers

    Scott



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    Scott DeBoer RN,MSN,CPEN,EMT-P
    Pediatric emergency/transport nurse educator
    Co-Founder
    Pedi-Ed-Trics Emergency Medical Solutions
    Reunion, Florida
    888-280-PEDS (7337)
    Scott@PediEd.com
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