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The ‘Page for Age’ is the last section of text within the Guidelines and has no specific section indicator. This section follows on from the Medicines section (section 7). The pages provide a quick and easy way for paramedics to access key information relating to paediatric patients aged from birth to 11 years. All the information is tabulated and each page is laid out in a logical and straightforward way, making it easy to use in an emergency situation. The tables contain information specific to patients of a particular age group and include normal vital signs, airway device sizing, intravascular fluid doses, drugs for cardiac arrest and the other JRCALC Guidelines.

The drug tables have information about the route, dose, concentration and volume specific to an age group, and provide an easy reference guide for use in practice. Paramedics should note that the Page for Age section does not contain information about indications, contraindications and cautions for a given drug, and these should be double‐checked for each patient in the appropriate page of the Medicines section (section 7) before administering any drug (see Figure 2.3).

Figure 2.3 Page for Age section.

Source: Reproduced with permission from JRCALC Guidelines (2019a).