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2009 Annual Spring Meeting June 11-14, 2009 Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head
Details | Agenda | Course Objectives | Accreditation | Hotel | Exhibitor Information |Speaker Forms REGISTER TO ATTEND | EMS REGISTER TO ATTEND | REGISTER TO EXHIBIT
Title: ACS in the First 12 Hours
Course Description: Chest pain is one of the most frequent complaints for patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Acute Coronary Syndrome is one of the most important entities to be diagnosed or excluded in this patient population. This talk will discuss the critical actions that should be taken during the first twelve hours of managing a patient with or suspected to have an ACS event, from ST elevation MI to low risk chest pain.
Objectives: 1. State the critical and time dependent steps that should be taken in the diagnosis and management of ST elevation MI. 2. Identify high risk patients for non-ST elevation MI and unstable angina. 3. Articulate a plan for the efficient and cost effective assessment of low risk chest pain patients. 4. Describe the role of an observation unit in the management of ACS patients.
Faculty: Mike Ross, MD
Title: ED Management of the Psychiatric (or Combative) Patient
Course Description: There are times when all providers are confronted with a violent or combative patient. Is it hypoxia, delirium, or just plain old belligerence? This lecture will review the common organic causes of acute combativeness, as well as teach strategies for safely and properly protecting both the patient and yourself during conflicts.
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Faculty: Bruce Janiak, MD
Title: High Risk Hand Injuries
Course Description: Hand injuries can range from benign and self limited to serious and leading to permanent disability. Identification of injuries that have potential to cause long-term morbidity and permanent loss of function are critical for the emergency physician. This talk will present high risk injuries that should be recognized, discuss management strategies that help limit future disability, and identify injuries for which hand surgery should be consulted to participate in the care of the injury.
Objectives: 1. Identify structures in the hand critical to the functionality of the hand. 2. Identify characteristics of wounds and fractures that can lead to long term impairment of function. 3. Describe management strategies that limit impairment of function. 4. List wounds and fractures for which Hand Surgery should be consulted.
Faculty: Chad Huot, MD
Title: Skills Every ED Director Must Have
Course Description: The role of ED Director is complex and demanding. The competing demands of patients, physician providers, consulting staff, nursing and support staff, and hospital administration require skills of negotiation, conflict resolution, human resource management, as well as up to date medical knowledge. This talk will discuss some of these skills that are essential to function well in the role of ED Director
Objectives: 1. Identify the roles played by the ED Director 2. Identify skills needed by the ED Director 3. Describe strategies for balancing competing demands on the ED. 4. List resources available to assist the ED Director. 5. Identify recent trends in management strategies for Emergency Departments. 6. Identify ways to make the Emergency Department a mission critical component of the hospital.
Faculty: Ricardo Martinez, MD
Title: 2009 LLSA Review
Course Description: The LLSA articles selected by ABEM have become an integral part of the Board Certification process. This lecture will cover the highlights of each of the articles, specifically addressing information applicable to the practice of Emergency Medicine and the LLSA test.
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Faculty: Mary Ann Edens, MD
Title: Psychiatric Clearance and Disposition in Georgia
Course Description: Psychiatric patients are frequent visitors to Emergency Departments. Increasingly, psychiatric facilities require “clearance” of these patients prior to admission. What are our obligations in this area? Does every psychiatric patient require hundreds of dollars of lab tests? Once we have “cleared” the patient, now how do we best disposition them?
Objectives: 1. Identify the role of the ED in the evaluation of psychiatric patients 2. Discuss best practices in the medical evaluation of psychiatric patients 3. Discuss indications for and against lab tests in this evaluation 4. Identify receiving psychiatric facilities in GA 5. Discuss the best methods for accessing inpatient and outpatient psychiatric facilities in GA
Faculty: Louis Ciamillo, MD
Title: Healthcare Reform Update
Course Description: Health care reform is a major emphasis President Obama’s new administration. Any efforts at health care reform will have a major impact on the practice of Emergency Medicine in the future. Physicians must play an informed and active role in the reform process. This talk will present an update on current developments in the discussion of health care reform at the national and state levels.
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Faculty: Arthur Kellermann, MD
Title: ED Jeopardy!
Course Description: A review of knowledge and principles of diagnosis and management of emergency conditions from a number of disciplines in the format of a competition between residents from MCG and Emory Emergency Medicine programs and community physicians in the active practice of Emergency Medicine.
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Faculty: Carl Menckhoff, MD
Title: Evaluation of Fever in Young Children
Course Description: Evaluation of fever in the infant and young child is challenging, particularly for those physicians who do not see children on a regular basis. The paradigm for evaluation of children with fever has changed with the advent of new vaccines. This talk will discuss recent strategies for the safe and cost effective management of this common complaint so that practitioners can approach these patients with confidence and skill.
Objectives: 1. List common causes of fever in children of different ages presenting to the emergency department for evaluation. 2. State a diagnostic plan for evaluation of fever in children of different ages presenting for fever. 3. Identify children at high risk of occult bacteremia who present to the emergency department with fever. 4. Identify safe disposition strategies for children with fever seen in the emergency department.
Faculty: Jim Wilde, MD
Title: ABCD of Trauma Ultrasound, Vascular Access with Ultrasound
Course Description: Emergency Ultrasound is becoming an integral part of the practice of Emergency Medicine in all academic emergency departments and is spreading quickly to private EDs around the country. It is now being used commonly in many different patient care scenarios from traumas to pregnancy. This lecture will introduce the emergency practitioner to bedside ultrasound and teach techniques useful in some of the most emergent situations.
Objectives: 1. Familiarize the practitioner with bedside ultrasound 2. Demonstrate how to perform the FAST exam and identify intraperitoneal fluid 3. Demonstrate how to look for pericardial effusion and cardiac motion 4. Demonstrate how to look for pneumothorax
Faculty: Carl Menckhoff, MD; Matthew Lyon, MD; Mary Ann Edens, MD
Title: Update in Pre-Hospital Medicine 2009: Articles that should change your practice
Course Description: With such a push to develop evidence based medicine guidelines throughout all of medicine, it is only natural that the move for such guidelines would soon reach the pre-hospital environment. These lecture will cover the evolving field of pre-hospital research as well as highlight key articles from recent years that should change your practice.
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Faculty: Eric Ossmann
Title: TMI on TBI: Everything you wanted to know about CHI.
Course Description: A leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and an unfortunate frequent occurrence for pre-hospital providers, is caring for patients with closed head injury. This lecture will focus in the pathophysiology behind closed head injury and traumatic brain injury, as well as debunking some myths behind treatment strategies for TBI.
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Faculty: Lisa Merck, MD
Title: Excited Delirum: It’s not just about Tasers anymore
Course Description: Excited delirium. Such a hot topic that no one seems to be able to adequately even define it. A serious concern for providers involved in tactical support as well as the street medic called to care for these patients. This lecture will review the concept of excited delirium, as well as the current literature describing it etiology, identification, and treatment strategies for the pre-hospital provider.
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Faculty: Melissa White, MD
Title: Ice, Ice Baby: Pre-Hospital hypothermia after cardiac arrest
Course Description: Since the publication of the Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest (HACA) and the Bernard study of induced hypothermia in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002, there has been significant talk of the use of the hypothermia to improve neurological outcomes in victims of cardiac arrest. While this has been becoming more of a mainstream intervention in the ED and the Intensive care units, it has yet to be widely deployed in the pre-hospital environment. This lecture will review the development, design, and implementation of a pre-hospital hypothermia system within a community.
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Faculty: Ian Greenwald
Title: Pediatric Altered mental status: just because they aren’t talking doesn’t mean they are “pre-verbal”
Course Description: From toxic-metabolic, to traumatic injuries, evaluating the patient with altered mental status has always been difficult. Couple this with a pediatric patient who may not be able to effectively communicate even when they are at their baseline and you have a recipe for disaster. This lecture will review the evaluation of pediatric patients with altered mental status and offer the providers clues to determine the etiology of the patients’ condition.
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Faculty: David Goo
Title: Non-accidental Trauma: Big problems for little patients
Course Description: Whether you call it non-accidental trauma, an accident, and just plain child abuse, there are subtle presentations that the pre-hospital provider needs to be aware of to effectively uncover this devastating problem. This lecture will review relevant recent literature on non-accidental trauma, and use a case based approach to highlight key presentations, physical exam findings and subtle clues to identify children suffering from abuse.
Objectives: 1. Review recent literature on non-accidental trauma, including the current practice guidelines as it pertains to pre-hospital personnel 2. Discuss physical exam findings that correlate with potential abuse 3. Illustrate using a case based approach, the subtle clues and tricks of the trade for identifying children with these injuries.
Faculty: David Goo
Title: The sky is falling: Utilization of aeromedical services and implications for the pre-hospital provider
Course Description: Recent catastrophic events have led us to critically evaluate the utilization of aeromedical services caring for our patients. Federal regulatory as well as professional associations are working to define guidelines for the safe and clinically effective use of these services. This lecture will review recent events, discuss the literature and current recommendations for use of these services.
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Faculty: Alex Isakov
Title: Just because we do it this way, doesn’t mean it is right: Pre-Hospital systems around the world, a brief overview
Course Description: A wise man once said “If you have seen one EMS system, you have seen one EMS system.” This lecture will provide a survey of different models for EMS systems around the world, and ways in which we can all learn from a fresh perspective in the delivery of pre-hospital care.
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Faculty:
Christine Keyes
Title: Pull that tube: Evidenced based utilization of non-visualized airway devices
Course Description: So much of what we practice in the pre-hospital environment is less that solidly footed in evidence based medicine. This lecture will examine pre-hospital intubation, the pros the cons, and the alternatives. With such a boon in non-visualized airway devices, this lecture will help the pre-hospital agency understand the literature behind such a controversial subject as “pulling the tube” from the trucks.
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Faculty: Eric Ossmann |
