CLEVELAND – University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital knows that kids aren’t just small adults. When ill or injured children reach Rainbow’s emergency department or Level I Pediatric Trauma Center, they get the benefit of equipment and supplies designed specifically for children of different ages and sizes, and medical staff with extensive training and experience in treating children from infancy through adolescence. Now the hospital is taking an extra step to ensure that this unique child-oriented care starts before children reach Rainbow’s front doors by providing more than 30 local EMS squads with specially designed ambulance child restraints created especially for the transport of ill or injured children.
On Friday, August 8, 2008, staff from University Hospitals’ EMS Training and Disaster Preparedness Institute and the Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital Injury Prevention Center will demonstrate the new equipment and provide training for EMS personnel from across Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula counties.