Emergency medical services
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Transcutaneous temporary pacing offers a noninvasive, rapid and effective way to institute ventricular pacing, support the patient's hemodynamics and re-establish perfusion. Prehospital clinicians can easily and rapidly initiate external pacing in an emergency. ⋯ Although the effectiveness of noninvasive pacing in children is variable and the need is infrequent, the technique can be lifesaving in certain conditions. The use of multifunction defibrillation-cardioversion-pacemaker electrodes allows the prehospital clinician to rapidly switch between therapies as required.