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Cutting Edge System Helps Paramedics Treat Children

Name: Cutting Edge System Helps Paramedics Treat Children
Uploaded: 2015-04-15T14:45:16+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Peter Antevy
Description: A short news report about the Bonita Springs Fire Department adopting the Antevy System, a pediatric dosing booklet and kit that lets first responders…

15 Apr 2015 · 1 min

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A short news report about the Bonita Springs Fire Department adopting the Antevy System, a pediatric dosing booklet and kit that lets first responders determine medication dosages for children quickly and reduces calculation errors. The report notes this is the first use of the system in Lee County and emphasizes reduced guesswork and risk of overdoses in emergency situations.

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The Antevy System (a pediatric dosing booklet and kit).

The Bonita Springs Fire Department.

The Bonita Springs Fire Department is changing the way it calculates drug doses for children. NBC 2's Natasha Verma shows us how the department is the first in Lee county to use a new booklet, taking the guesswork out of emergency situations.
In an emergency, paramedics can't waste time on complicated math.
This is already a stressful situation with children. As you probably know.
Paramedics have to guess a child's weight, make conversions and.
Calculate that before we even start to treat the child.
Small errors can lead to drug overdoses.
But this takes all the guesswork out.
For the first time in Lee county, the Bonina Springs Fire Department is introducing a cutting edge booklet called the Antevy System. First responders will be able to determine dosages in seconds, so you would just.
Find the age of the child, make sure they fall within the weight parameters.
Find the medication, the volumes.
You would grab your pouch.
The booklet comes in a pediatric kit which contains all the correct equipment for the emergency.
It just takes a lot of the guesswork, a lot of the mind work out of the cold. It's already stressful as it is.
Each booklet and kit costs the department $1,000. They'll stock the fleet of six trucks by the end of this month in Bonita springs. Natasha Verma, NBC 2.