Walking the Line for quality pediatric prehospital care (Kris Ramos)

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend Kris Ramos. Kris Ramos is a master’s prepared registered nurse and paramedic with a broad base of critical care experience including ground and air ambulance prehospital care, adult and pediatric emergency departments, pediatric cardiovascular intensive care, PICU, NICU, hemodialysis, and leadership roles. He currently serves as the Base Hospital Coordinator at Phoenix Children’s. Kris’s daily focus is to improve prehospital care for children by bringing Phoenix Children’s expertise to emergency responders through continuing education, patient follow-up, and operations consultations. Kris is the founder and chair of the Phoenix Children's Annual EMS conference which provides prehospital providers with current pediatric trauma and emergency care continuing education. Kris also serves as vice chair of the Arizona Department of Health Services’ Pediatric Advisory Council for Emergency Services, a committee that plays a lead role within Arizona’s EMS and trauma community to improve pediatric care. Come along as Michael Dexter and Hollye Briggs talk with Kris about his career in prehospital medicine and nursing. Kris has been instrumental in moving the benchmarks for pediatric prehospital care and offering the most up-to-date continuing education. This episode is called “Walking the Line for quality pediatric prehospital care.” Kris Ramos can be reached via LinkedIn @Kris-Ramos and through the Phoenix Children’s EMS and Prehospital Care Conference website (ems.phoenixchildrens.org).