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Woman: ..."and we're still at 88. We're dropping you guys. Heart Rate is going up"....
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For veteran EMT professional Lois Losenegger, working with patients comes naturally as she's
been doing it for more than 20 years
Lois: "I'm not getting a pulse"
However, despite her extensive background in emergency care at Belleville Emergency
Medical Services, helping children can still be a difficult situation.
Lois: "Kids tend to hold things in, they don't
tell you everything. They are afraid to tell you something. So getting a story out of them
or finding out what is really wrong is hard work."
Losenegger joins 44 other participants at the UW-Madison Health Sciences Learning Center
for the Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services For Children Conference.
The Conference... sponsored by the Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services for Children and
University of Wisconsin ... provides participants with simulations to learn best practices in
emergency care for kids.
Dr. Ross: "Providing them with nine different sessions
where they can actually go through and practice skills on airway management and CPR and also
simulations on seizing patients and kids with cardiac arrest and kids with special health
care needs and various other problems they may run in to. "
Dr. Ross and other health professionals teach attendees using UW-Madison's Clinical Simulation
facility that provides students with high-specialized Manikins and virtual reality training.
Lois: "I think the more realistic you can make
it, the more you take it seriously. You go "oh, wow, I can see that chest rising"
or you look in their eyes and the eyes dilate. You go, "oh yea, wow, I can see what I am
doing is right or it is not so working." So, I have to try something and think out
of the box."
This training is not only for designed professionals with extensive years in the field. It is also
designed to help students like Chuck Piper.
Chuck: "I am with the Montfort rescue squad. It
is a volunteer organization."
Piper has been volunteering for about a year. Although, he received basic training, he said
opportunities to learn about emergency care of children are few and far between.
Chuck: "Montfort is kind of a rural area. It is
20 minutes for anywhere. I think it is good to be aware that children have different needs
and they are a special case. Personally I wanted to be ready because I don't want
to ever mess up on a child. That would be terrible. "
Students involved in the course say no matter what their level of expertise, the conference
has enhanced their ability to help children in need.
Dr. Ross: "I know that I have learned more from my
mistakes than anything I have ever done right. And if you can make a mistake on a piece of
plastic as opposed to a real patient and be able to hold on to that and take that experience
to take better care of real patients that is the real goal."
Lois: "I would recommend it highly to anybody
who wants to come in and have their skills at their highest."