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What equipment (if any) does your agency use to transport infants and children?
Technically, the rule around here is children and infants are to be transported in car seats or on backboards. Occasionally (when medically and mentally prudent) we will allow the child to be strapped into the stretcher with their parent - but technically this is a no-no... sometimes it is very hard to separate a sick child from its parents and a judgement call has to be made.
We have pediatric longboards, a ped's immobilization kit (kind of like a full body KED), and we will soon have two inflatable child seats (we currently keep one standard plastic one at the firehouse and have fire police bring it to us if we need it.
Technically, the rule around here is children and infants are to be transported in car seats or on backboards. Occasionally (when medically and mentally prudent) we will allow the child to be strapped into the stretcher with their parent - but technically this is a no-no... sometimes it is very hard to separate a sick child from its parents and a judgement call has to be made.
We have pediatric longboards, a ped's immobilization kit (kind of like a full body KED), and we will soon have two inflatable child seats (we currently keep one standard plastic one at the firehouse and have fire police bring it to us if we need it.