Paramedic Pediatric Training

" Whether. A frantic mom the mini dock on the other end zone. And young girl caught in the crossfire. Blood everywhere. This is a training scenario but these first responders know in a real emergency every second counts. Which unique about this drill in Menlo Park he has all the patients are kids."

" Pediatric patients not little adults and to try to use adult equipment. On children. It's very different and so they've we've been able to expose them on two different ways to deliver medication. To deliver. He -- To be able to measure how much fluid again."

" air movement. I thought. Today Lucille Packard Children's Hospital partnered with -- area firefighters to improve care for kids facing medical emergencies. Trading using pediatric mannequins is the first of its kind in the nation I think moment. The scenarios look real because they are all based on real -- emergency experienced by children in the Bay Area. Treating kids in the field can be tough they often are too young to communicate. And one size does not at all on any given day firefighters maybe helping a newborn -- toddler or school age child. So medication doses have to be adjusted based on their size that's why firefighters now carry special pediatric charts and --"

" The camera here. And we're right on -- I'm gonna pull up the -- back. So in all our medications here we hope that. These few minutes these critical few minutes are enough that they are able to bring a child a life. With a pulse breathing to the emergency department where -- and take over he's convinced teaching first responders how to treat the smallest patients here."

" Helped them survive the biggest emergencies."