8:30AM—10:00AM
Water Rescue Awareness Part II
Presented by John Soderberg CEU Total: 0.5 medical/trauma and 1.0 other NREMT Category 2
This course is a continuation of Part I held Friday. Participants in part I and part II will meet NFPA 1670 awareness level guidelines. This is the practical introduction to PFD swimming, throw bag deployment, and self rescue techniques in the pool. Participants should bring clean uniform/clothing and shoes to wear in the pool.
Trauma is perhaps the oldest of man’s afflictions, and the history of trauma is as old as medicine itself. Egyptian physicians are believed to have performed amputations, extracted foreign bodies, and dressed wounds in ancient times. 1774 brought us the first successful trauma resuscitation. In 1918, data from France supported the Golden Hour concept. Trauma care continued to advance, with the battlefields of Korea and Vietnam as proving grounds for vascular surgery, helicopter transport, hemodialysis, and refinement of the concept of forward surgical hospitals for rapid care of the wounded. Where do we stand today and what does the future hold?
The fastest median door-to-balloon times have been achieved by hospitals with paramedics who perform 12 lead ECGs in the field. EMS can play a key role in reducing the first-medical-contact-to-balloon time, by performing a 12 lead ECG in the field and using this information to triage the patient to the most appropriate medical facility. Prior notification of an in-bound STEMI patient enables time saving decisions to be made prior to the patient's arrival. The 30-30-30 rule takes the goal of achieving a 90 minute door-to-balloon time and divides it into three equal time segments. Each STEMI care provider (EMS, the emergency department, and the cardiac cath lab) has 30 minutes to complete its assigned tasks and seamlessly "hand off" the STEMI patient to the next provider.
This presentation, targeted at all instructors and future instructors, will look at the theory of multiple intelligences and dispel the myths and rumors about being smart. How many ways are we smart? We will focus on visual, logical, verbal, musical, naturalist, bodily kinesthetic, intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligence, and understand how our students are smart. EMS educators need to be aware of the different strengths that lie in each of our students and how best to organize their teaching methodologies to become more compatible with participant needs. This highly interactive program will model a variety of techniques to employ in our EMS teachings.
In 490 BC, Phidippides, a young Greek messenger, ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens delivering the news of the Greek victory over the Persians, and then he collapsed and died; probably the first recorded incident of sudden death of an athlete. Sudden death most commonly occurs in football or basketball, accounting for two-thirds of sudden death of athletes in the U.S. The most common causes of sudden death are congenital abnormalities of the heart and blood vessels, or those that are present at birth. A blow to the chest in the area of the heart, called commotio cordis, or cardiac concussion is the most common cause of sudden death in athletes who have no heart abnormality.
This lecture focuses on the medical management of a patient suffering from crush injuries and compartment syndrome. Miller explains some of the unique challenges EMS practitioners must overcome while treating these patients.
EMS providers are frequently called to assess psychiatric patients; but is it really a mental health issue? In some cases, the patient has a serious underlying medical condition presenting as a psychiatric illness. This presentation uses a case study format to illustrate how EMS providers may use an organized approach to evaluate patients in order to avoid being mislead into the wrong course of action.
Review of pediatric cases focusing on visual diagnosis and initial assessment.
Traumatic brain injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability in trauma patients. Many advances have occurred in the medical care of the injured patient as a result of research and the Adam Williams Initiative. We will look at all phases of care, from prehospital to surgical and their impact on patient outcomes.
Explanation of risky behavior such as huffing, cutting, suicide and dusting. Signs and symptoms and behavior, treatment of related injuries and prevention.
This program will review the pertinent physiology of CO2 production and measurement. The differences associated with oxygenation, ventilation and their monitoring. During this presentation various methods and devices used for CO2 measurement and monitoring will be highlighted and the normal and various abnormal CO2 waveforms seen in a variety of clinical situations will be demonstrated and discussed.
In countless classes, the participants are advised to, either find a mentor or be a mentor. Although soundadvice, it leaves many questions unanswered. For example - how do I identify a metor or how do I make myself desirable to be mentored? This presentation will discuss the importance of mentorship in emergency services and how theoretical concept can be made into a practical reality.
Race tracks have evolved over the years, as have motorsports in general, and safety has become a top priority amongst race sponsors, tracks and team owners. Prior to safety being brought to the forefront of the racing world's consciousness, it was often an afterthought and many racers were injured or lost their lives due to accidents that were either themselves preventable or due to the lack of proper safety measures that, had they been in place, very well might have made a difference. Find out what you need to know if your service responds to a medical emergency at a race track.
This program is designed to give participants the ability to identify and demonstrate proper levels of personal protective equipment (PPE) as they relate to decontamination. Students will also be able to identify and demonstrate proper decontamination procedures in various scenarios.
Think scene safety is a joke? Think it doesn’t apply to you? Join Jennifer Russell for this retrospective view of times when EMS providers have been targeted, injured, and even killed. Guaranteed to make you think twice next time you get in your ambulance.
Just one employee with chronic performance or work habit problems can drag down the performance and morale of an entire work group. And it can dominate a leader’s time and lead to frustration and stress. This course builds leaders' skills in handling chronic performance or work habit problems or serious misconduct. They learn how to document the problem and explain what the employee must do to address it. Leaders become skilled in discussing and imposing formal consequences while adhering to their organizations' policies and procedures. Do you face any of these issues? Are your leaders ill-prepared to conduct performance problem discussions? Do they fail to gather and document the hard performance data they need? Can your leaders defuse strong emotions when discussing performance problems?
This is a kaleidoscope of views from the point of view of the trauma surgeon. The medical view. The life of the trauma surgeon outside the ER. The future of trauma surgeries in the USA.
This presentation will discuss how EMS is proivided in third world nations. based on the presenter's experiences in Columbia and Vietnam, discussion will include how responders abroad try to do more with a lot less. Time will be spent on lessons learned and ways that these providers creatively "make-do".
This will be a comprehensive and interactive discussion with the objective of fine tuning the assessment skill of the prehospital practitioner. Led by JEMS Case of the month author, Paul Werfel, participants will systematically examine and assess each patient, suggest and discuss presumptive diagnosis and BLS and ALS treatment modalities. The group will then compare and contrast these findings with the in-hospital diagnosis and treatment modalities.