Thursday Conferences
Conference sessions are typically 75 minutes in length unless otherwise noted.
| September 30, 2010 | |
| 8:00 AM | Mike Smith, BS, MICP BLS Track This graphic and hard-hitting program focuses on a wide variety of machinery-related injuries, both industrial and agricultural in nature. Mike first presents common machinery mechanisms of injury and injury profiles, followed by patient assessment, priority setting in trauma care and extrication considerations. Not recommended for the faint of heart. |
| 8:00 AM | Jeff Beeson, DO, RN, LP, Ray Fowler, MD, FACEP ALS Track As EMS providers, we are frequently confronted with difficult clinical decisions. Patients often present with symptoms that require rapid thinking and, in many circumstances, the choice between treatments may be a difficult decision. This lecture will provide a path for critical decision-making in the setting of critically ill patients, focusing on situations when the correct action may not be immediately clear. |
| 8:00 AM | Mike Touchstone, BS, EMT-P Educator Track During this session, Mike will examine the steps of the instructional design process and its application for developing and evaluating educational programs. Whether you're creating your own or evaluating someone else's educational program, the ADDIE instructional design process provides useful methodology and information and will better prepare you for the radical change coming with the new National Education Standards. |
| 8:00 AM | Greg Friese, MS, NREMT-P General Audience Track Online education is the most dynamic and fastest growing component of emergency responder education. Education programs are migrating from the desktop computer to iPods, MP3 players, smartphones and PDAs as m-learning programs, and 3-D virtual simulations are being used for training and evaluation. This session covers emerging trends in online education for emergency responders and discusses how to evaluate tools and technologies for your organization. |
| 8:00 AM | Steve Berry, BA, NREMT-P General Audience Track Suicide is often described as one of the most painful kind of calls an emergency medical provider will respond to. Whether successful or attempted, a suicide call often leaves responders with complex and disturbing questions. In this session, Steve looks at who is at highest risk for suicide; common myths; most common methods used to commit suicide; warning signs; impact on survivors; assisted suicide and more. |
| 8:00 AM | Warren Porter, MS, BA, LP Administrator/Manager Track Over the past few years, EMS has been increasingly tasked with responding to a variety of disasters with unique demands upon both individual providers and management. This presentation addresses issues facing EMS providers who are tasked with disaster evacuation response with specific issues including triage; evacuation transportation issues of who, when and how; and managing care in evacuee shelters. |
| 9:30 AM | Baxter Larmon, PhD, MICP BLS Track Medicine constantly changes. Things that work in the hospital do not necessarily work in the field. Prehospital research has caused us to critically evaluate ourselves and realize that assessments we learned from our original instructors may not be true today. This lecture will take a critical look at the assessments taught to EMTs and reappraise their utility. |
| 9:30 AM | Mike Grill, MS, NREMT-P ALS Track Almost any EMS publication you read these days has an article addressing the controversy regarding the use of intubation in the prehospital setting. Is it fading away with the availability of quicker advanced airway alternatives and recent research demonstrating that the "golden airway standard" may not be all that golden? Join Mike for this look at a controversial issue so you won't be left in the dark when your medical director begins to question endotracheal intubation in your EMS system. |
| 9:30 AM | Heather Davis, MS, NREMT-P Educator Track Are you ready for the new education standards? Do you even know what needs to be done to get yourself and your colleagues ready for these impending programmatic changes? Attend this session to learn what is required, what is suggested, and how to decide how you'll implement the changes in a way that leaves your program stronger and your students better prepared for the future of EMS. |
| 9:30 AM | Raphael Barishansky, MPH, EMT-B General Audience Track In this very timely presentation, Ray touches on the motivation of volunteers and the current state of volunteerism in EMS. He will also discuss proven techniques for recruiting and retaining volunteers, and explain why these techniques work. Learn tricks, tips and ideas from across the country, including a wide assortment of dos and don'ts. |
| 9:30 AM | Tia Simmons, MPH; Gary McLean, RN, EMT-P, Tom McCarrier, NREMT General Audience Track The Epilepsy Foundation recognizes the importance of EMS response to the health and safety of an estimated 3 million Americans who experience seizures and millions more who have seizures as a result of trauma or other acute or chronic illnesses. Following the Foundation's new EMS training program, Tia will describe a variety of seizures associated with epilepsy, seizures with other potential causes, appropriate EMS response on the scene, and issues to consider when determining whether further medical care is warranted. |
| 9:30 AM | Tim Holman, BA, EMT-P, CFO Administrator/Manager Track Tim offers five power points that will provide a simple, step-by-step approach for making timely and effective departmental changes. Learn the importance of focus, attitude, relationships, empowerment and image in bringing your department to a new performance level. |
| 9:30 AM | Michael Gooch, MSN, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, CFRN, CEN, EMT-P BLS Track Pediatric, geriatric, obstetrical and bariatric patients can all be challenging to manage at times, but when they become trauma patients, the risks and complications are compounded. During this presentation, Michael will review some special populations of trauma and how EMS alters its management to meet their specific needs. With knowledge about these special groups, adaptation of standard practice and special equipment, says Michael, they can be managed as successfully as any other patient. |
| 11:00 AM | David Page, EMT-P; Daryl Doering, BA, NREMT-P; Paul Satterlee, MD Back by popular demand, Dave, Daryl and Dr. Satterlee offer a hands-on, case-based presentation of challenging obstructed airways. Advanced techniques to clear the airway are discussed, along with pearls and pitfalls of surgical cricothyrotomies. |
| 11:00 AM | Baxter Larmon, PhD, MICP Educator Track Academics are the hallmark of a profession. If we consider EMS a profession, we need to look at the way we educate our young. This lecture will explore where we are and where EMS education needs to grow in the future. Join Baxter to learn how education can drive the profession of EMS. |
| 11:00 AM | Dave Williams, NREMT-P General Audience Track NFPA 1584 made the transition from recommended practice to standard in December 2007. Has your agency done the same? The role of EMS on the fireground must be proactive. Reaction-based patient care puts lives at stake and doesn't represent the best we have to offer. In this session, Dave will address prevention of common firefighter illness and injury, as well as treatment guidelines. Participants in the class will gather the knowledge and skills required to implement the provisions of 1584. |
| 11:00 AM | Ray Fowler, MD, FACEP General Audience Track Each year, dozens of EMS medical directors from the nation's largest 9-1-1 systems, as well as from the FBI and U.S. Secret Service, gather to discuss the latest advances in prehospital medicine at a conference called A Gathering of Eagles. In this session, Ray Fowler, one of the group's principal organizers, will recap this year's meetings, where round-table discussions and lightning-round presentations addressed topics that included EMS research, management issues, funding, training and retraining EMS providers, newly proposed patient care techniques and much more. |
| 11:00 AM | Skip Kirkwood, MS, JD, EMT-P, EFO, CMO Administrator/Manager Track Every organization is just a second away from the next crisis: a vehicle crash, clinical misadventure or a visit from a state EMS office or OSHA inspector. Building on crisis management "best practices" from other industries, this session will provide the structure for every senior EMS officer to pre-plan crisis response and to effectively manage the next organizational crisis that could threaten the professional survival of the chief officers involved. |
| 3:00 PM | Ken Bouvier, NREMT-P BLS Track Medical reports show that nearly 500,000 people use the EMS system each year for penetrating gunshot wounds; nearly 10% of them die. Using data collected from several US cities, Ken will discuss sophisticated weaponry, gang and drive-by shootings, workplace incidents, types and mechanisms of injuries, kinetic injury and shock from blood loss. This session is appropriate for both BLS and ALS providers. |
| 3:00 PM | Jules Scadden, NREMT-P, PS ALS Track Survival rates for premature and technology-dependent babies have skyrocketed over the past 20 years, while the number of premature births has increased over that same period. Often, these children with special cardiac conditions are cared for at home by young, inexperienced parents for months before they undergo corrective surgery or their conditions improve. This presentation addresses four conditions that cause cyanosis at birth, assessment challenges and management techniques for prehospital and emergency care providers. |
| 3:00 PM | Heather Davis, MS, NREMT-P Educator Track We all know that lecturing is the least effective method of delivering information to students and that most of them remember as little as 10% of what we say. Attend this session to learn how to replace your lectures with classroom activities, discussion and work groups that do not take more class time and do yield better educational results, as evidenced by better student evaluations, longer retention of information, and knowledge at a higher level of the cognitive domain. |
| 3:00 PM | Steve Berry, BA, NREMT-P General Audience Track Join Steve as he explores some of the issues facing EMS today: decrease in volunteerism, new-generation employee behavior (texting, cell phone cameras, tattoos, piercings), the aging population, budget cuts that affect training, equipment and readiness, and poor managing and hiring techniques. It's a humor-based lecture, says Steve, but his deeper message is intended to motivate and inspire those who give so much to the EMS profession. |
| 3:00 PM | Nancy Burnham-Kreiner General Audience Track Death Scene Management is like riding a big, fast roller coaster! People get on; take their ride and then get off, never aware of who is following in the seats behind them. EMS is often the first on and the first off the roller coaster. Long after everyone is finished with the death scene the victim's family must cope with the death and how well or how poorly the scene was managed. It isn't only about justice. Proper death scene management is a gift to the victim that brings peace to the family. How well will you handle your next death scene? |
| 3:00 PM | James Logan, BPS, EMT-P/IC Administrator/Manager Track This presentation will give attendees new insight into mentoring new employees of the EMS family, looking at what it takes to mentor and lead those in middle management and supervisory roles. Learn why mentoring is important and how to go about it, including how to involve the medical director in the process. The second part of the class will focus on lessons learned in leadership, coaching techniques and best practices in leading for success. |
| 4:30 PM | Mike Smith, BS, MICP BLS Track The use and abuse of both licit and illicit drugs has seemingly gone on forever. This class will give you a grip on what's out there for the folks who practice "better living through chemistry," as Mike touches on just about every major category of substance abuse. |
| 4:30 PM | Michael Gooch, MSN, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, CFRN, CEN, EMT-P Use of therapeutic hypothermia dates back many centuries. In modern times, it has been used mainly to manage brain injury patients, but there has been an increase in research and TH utilization in recent years. In this presentation, Michael will review current uses, methods and indications for therapeutic hypothermia, as well as indications and utilization during transport. |
| 4:30 PM | Mike Grill, MS, NREMT-P Educator Track Team-based learning shifts the focus of student classroom time from "passive listener" to "active doer," simultaneously forcing the instructor to step back from the traditional role of "sage on the stage" to the facilitator role of "guide on the side." This hands-on session will begin the process of discovering how to create a learning-centered (as opposed to grade-centered) classroom environment and show participants how to apply key principles of TBL, including: key elements of properly forming student teams; participating in and learning the power of the readiness assurance process for providing frequent and timely performance feedback; and identifying the four S's of team assignments that are realistic, fun and applicable to real-world issues in prehospital care. |
| 4:30 PM | Steve Whitehead, NREMT-P General Audience Track In prehospital care, patient rapport affects everything. Join Steve to learn about key phrases that build rapport and phrases that can destroy the provider-patient connection. He'll also discuss how to make connections with patients, treat others with dignity and respect, practice empathy, be persuasive and make authentic connections with people on the worst days of their lives. |
| 4:30 PM | Raphael Barishansky, MPH, EMT-B General Audience Track Do you ever feel like your bosses just "don't get it?" Do you think of great new solutions to problems only to be told "we've always done it like this?" If so, this is for you. This light-hearted, yet informative lecture will review definitions and characteristics of different generations from veterans and Baby Boomers to Generations X and Y, and look at how opinion, miscommunication and misperception can be damaging from the perspective of up-and-coming EMSers. |
| 4:30 PM | Warren Porter, MS, BA, LP Administrator/Manager Track Since the beginning of EMS as a profession, little has been developed for EMS-specific leadership, especially regarding how to move from the field into organized leadership. This presentation will address the key differences between management and leadership, everyday opportunities for leadership, utilizing clinical skills to move up the career ladder, and the benefit to EMS for developing a legacy program to foster the next generation of EMS leadership. |
