8:30am—5:00pm
Tactical Medical Responder
Scott Everitt, Jerry Wasek, MacDonald Cunningham, Leon BaroneCEU: BLS: 8.5 M/T & 5.5 Other; ALS 10.5 M/T & 5.5 Other

CONTINUED FROM FRIDAY, this course covers the basics of tactical medicine operations. This program is considered a foundational course that will serve as a basis for future training of the tactical medic. Team development and basic medical aspects of tactical operations are presented. Assessment, treatment and evacuation of injured personnel are stressed in this two-day program. Hands-on training supplements the scheduled lectures and provides a challenge to all program participants. Class size is limited to 18 students. Tuition is set by the Academy and covers specialized equipment and supplies that are provided for the practical sessions. Tuition is $295.00. This is a two day program and students must attend both days. This course is intensive. You will alternate between indoor and outdoor activities during the course.

Time and again we hear terms like planning, preparedness, response and recovery intertwined with many aspects of emergency services. When turned into processes these terms become actionable and essential to our daily response. How often does your planning encompass serious emerging threats and the families of your personnel? Join us as we take a look into the eyes of some emerging threats such as weaponized anthrax and pandemic influenza. This session will provide attendees with an overview of these subjects, review recommended states of medical readiness, and the importance of taking care of our own.

On June 23, 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security declared Pittsburgh's G-20 summit in September a "National Special Security Event" (NSSE.) This declaration marked the start of a three-month planning process for one of the largest and most complex events to ever take place in western Pennsylvania. Chief McCaughan provides lessons learned during the creation, planning and implementation of the medical plan for this event.

Dr. Mosesso will discuss emergency situations involving patients with pacemakers and/or ICDs (intracardiac defibrillators) and their treatment in the field.

Dr. Hammer discusses emerging data on stroke care and will relate the important issues in identifying, caring for and treating stroke patients in the field.

Dr. Varcelotti will discuss burn care, past, present and future focusing on current practices in the care and treatment of a variety of burn patients based on their mechanism as well as an interesting collaboration with the McGowen Institute for Regenerative Medicine to start applying isolated, autologous skin cells to deep partial thickness burns by spray deposition in the future.

A guide to what to look for and what to report. This includes physical, sexual, emotional abuse and denial of critical care. Remembering that not all scenes are as they appear and not all calls are for the reason the family called. This class assists the provider in recognizing child abuse in it’s many forms. Appropriate for all levels of providers as well as law enforcement and social workers.

Have you ever wondered why your body is built the way it is? What seem like oddities of the human anatomy and physiology are discussed in this highly informative presentation. Discussed also will be complications associated with anatomical/physiological disruptions.

Dr. Forsythe will conduct a variety of recent trauma case studies while demonstrating the patterns of injury using human cadavers. Class size is limited.

Team building refers to a wide range of activities, usually in a business context, for improving team performance. Team building is pursued via a variety of practices, and can range from simple bonding exercises to complex simulations and multi-day team building retreats designed to develop a team. Join me as we discuss 10 steps to successful TEAM BUILDING. Class size limited to 24 participants.

A look back over the past year at the innovations, equipment, and studies that are shaping EMS - Who is doing what and how it´s working. Jen will present the latest studies of prehospital performance from major medical journals that many prehospital providers may have limited access to and introduce medical devices that have prehospital applications. Students will have an opportunity to debate topics that directly impact field care.

Emergency Service Organizations respond to a wide variety of incidents involving operations on, or near, a roadway. These pose special risks to personnel performing EMS, fire, and rescue functions. Every year a significant number of emergency service personnel are killed or injured while operating on our highways. There may be a wide variety of reasons for these losses, but the point still remains: they should never happen! In many instances, an ESO responds to a “primary incident” on a roadway, only to become the victim of a “secondary incident” – the nightmare in which an EMS provider, firefighter or police officer is suddenly struck and killed by traffic. This presentation addresses specific situations that responders face and provide immediate solutions to the problem.

Every day, EMS responds to calls where violence changes people’s lives forever. But how much do you really know about the science behind these calls? This presentation will address the five categories of violent situations, how to perform “threat assessments”, and provide you with guidelines for managing violent patients. We will also discuss how EMS professionals can provide psychological assistance to the victims of violence.

CAUTION: Your next employee may be unlike anything you have seen before. Often we question as managers, preceptors, and leaders, “What is wrong with these people we are hiring”? EMS organizations have often thought of diversity in ethnic and gender terms, but diversity across generational lines is equally important when it comes to management sensitivity and effectiveness. Today the mixture of ages, values, and views is diversity management at its most challenging. It is foolish for EMS operations to pretend there aren’t legitimate generational differences that have to be addressed. Employers have to face the realization that the workforce has changed, and it is not necessarily better or worse than before, but just different.

Need to brush up on some basic musculoskeletal assessment and management? This lecture will help you get back up to speed on caring for various injuries and the complications associated with fractures and dislocations.

The protocol to handle a mass casualty incident is the same regardless of where it occurs. The treatment of trauma patients is consistent throughout the world. Join Dr. Peitzman and one of his contacts in Israel as they discuss, through video conferencing, case studies of trauma patients.

Today's EMS providers find themselves in a struggle, having to choose between what they perceive as right (acting in the best interest of the patient) and what is legal, which requires conforming to accepted standards of care. EMS providers are forced to think about our values (what’s important to us in terms of delivering good patient care), to consider how we’re expected to act (by the patient or their family, by protocol and by law) and to assess how we treat others. We call these values and actions ethics. This presentation presents participants with ethical conflicts where values, protocols and patient care goals clash with the patient’s wishes. Throughout the presentation participants will be able to develop a plan to approach ethical conflicts.

Have you ever realized that we'll get out of a warm bed at 3 am to run a trauma code? ...or leave the Thanksgiving dinner table to go out on the big one?  But when it comes time to take care of ourselves, we can barely put on a bandaid!  There is no better time than now to start looking at how you take care of yourself and your family.  This dynamic and entertaining lecture will start you down the path to healthy living!