Advanced Stroke Life Support Ashis Tayal, MD
8:00am—5:00pm

Participants will be able to identify the five main stroke syndromes and relate them to pathophysiology and clinical signs. Students also learn to identify stroke, its location and severity, and t-PA contraindications Using hands-on skills training, students perform the MEND Examination, a unique neurologic assessment tool. Limit of 50 students. Tuition is $25.00 and includes lunch. CEU Total: BLS Total CEU is 5.5 medical/trauma. ALS Total CEU is 6.5 medical/trauma.

This course is designed to provide fire fighters, EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physicians assistants, and physicians with the ability to assess and stabilize patients with serious burns during the first critical hours following injury and to identify those patients requiring transfer to a burn center. The course is not designed to teach comprehensive burn care, but rather to provide information that will enable those who only rarely treat burn patients to provide the care needed by a burn patient in the first 24 hours after injury. Following a series of lectures, case studies are presented for group discussions. An opportunity to work with a simulated burn patient to reinforce the assessment, stabilization, and the American Burn Association transfer criteria to a Burn Center will be given. Final testing consists of a written exam and a practical assessment return demonstration. Limit of 25 students. Tuition is $25.00 and includes lunch. CEU Total: BLS Total CEU is 6.5 medical/trauma. ALS Total CEU is 7.5 medical/trauma.

This intense course provides basic information on explosive and incendiary devices that could be used as terrorist weapons. Classroom topics include: Understanding the terrorist threat, Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Safety issues and Departmental or agency policies to ensure compliance with local requirements. In addition to the latest information available regarding explosive and bombing threats the course is designed with extensive video footage to assist in emphasizing the covered topics. Tuition for this course is $30.00 and does not include lunch unless you also take a course in the afternoon on Wednesday March 24. CEU Total: 0.5 medical/trauma and 3.5 other

Psychiatric emergencies challenge our interpersonal skills, our diagnostic abilities, medical and legal knowledge. Improving knowledge of patients in mental health crisis, faculty also explain 201s and 302s. Legal responsibilities of restraint are included. A virtual reality machine for sensitivity training is included. Tuition for this course is $30.00 and does not include lunch unless you also take a course in the afternoon on Wednesday March 24. CEU Total: 2.5 medical/trauma

Students will be given the chance to play out various response roles in a table top atmosphere dealing with the big one which will entail multiple agency and multiple jurisdictional response. Interaction will occur with Communications Center, EOC, media and various stake holders as the incident unfolds. The incident will start as a single resource response and grow to multi-agency/multi-jurisdictional responses using various levels of the command structure including Unified Command. Skills include command, communications, vehicle placement, tactical decision making, operations coordination, patient triaging, EOC operations, command and control. Tuition for this course is $30.00 and does not include lunch unless you take a course in the morning on Wednesday March 24. CEU Total: 1.5 other

Are you confident that you can communicate with your next patient? What if they have autism? Affecting 1 in 150 children and an estimated 1.5 million Americans of all ages, it is only a matter of time before you will encounter patients with autism. Autism spectrum disorders are developmental disorders that affect the ability to communicate, report medical conditions, self-regulate behaviors and interact with others to get their needs met. This can create serious problems for emergency responders when trying to assess and manage a patient. Traditional treatment protocols may not be appropriate for the patient with an ASD. This workshop offers “autism preparedness” designed for the unique world of EMS practitioners. A brief overview of autism and how it influences patient behaviors will be provided. Participants will learn strategies and tools to help assess and treat this growing population effectively. Tuition for this course is $30.00 and does not include lunch unless you take a course in the morning on Wednesday March 24. CEU Total: 1.0 medical/trauma and 2.5 other

This session will be an interactive session reviewing the essential educational concepts and approaches used in today’s classrooms. Discussion will center on recognizing and using group dynamics in the classroom. The national scope of practice and how it will affect you as an instructor will be reviewed. Module three will be held on Thursday. Module 1 is a pre-requisite for this course and can be done on-line. Modules 1, 2 and 3 are required for all EMS instructors by March 31, 2010. Class size limited to 24 students. This course is free. CEU Total: 5.0 other

Instructor Enrichment Module 3 Richard Lippert
CEU: 10.0 other

The module 3 session is interactive and designed to help instructors with psychomotor skills. Through videos, instructors are taught psychomotor objectives. Instructors will participate in a practical setting reviewing skills in several different roles as an instructor, a patient actor, an EMS student and bystander. Modules I and II are prerequisites. Limit of 24 students. This course is free.

Tactical Medical Responder R. Scott Everitt, Jerome Wasek, R. MacDonald Cunningham, Leon Barone
8:30am—5:00pm BOTH DAYS

Presented through the auspices of the National Academy of Tactical Medical Response (NATMR), 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 and includes lunch. 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. CEU Total: BLS Total CEU is 14 (8.5 medical/trauma and 5.5 other). ALS Total CEU is 16 (10.5 medical/trauma and 5.5 other). May be applied to NREMT Category 2.