Course Schedule

Essentials of Emergency Medicine

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
7:45 AM Video Introduction
8:00 AM Appy mimics 
8:30 AM PE: The Clinical Risk Rules 
9:00 AM Pitfalls in Orthopedic Radiography: Upper Extremities 
9:30 AM Restraint Injury Patterns 
9:45 AM Anaphylaxis 
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Meth Update and Management 
10:30 AM PE: The Options for Testing 
11:00 AM Current Rapid Rule Out Protocols 
11:30 AM Back Pain: High Risk Presentations 
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM IV Pacer Insertion 
2:15 PM Difficult Vascular Access Pearls 
2:45 PM Pitfalls in Orthopedic Radiology – Lower Extremities 
3:15 PM PE: Putting it All Together Kline Style!
4:00 PM Adjourn Main Conference
4:15pm-6:30pm  Optional ECG Course – Pearls and Pitfalls 
(Jeff Tabas, MD) SEPARATE  REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Thursday, November 8, 2007
8:00 AM Video Presentation: Day 1 Summary and Smack Down! 
8:30 AM Common Airway Miscues 
9:00 AM Simplified Approach to Hypothermia Treatment 
9:30 AM Where There’s a Hole - Pediatric Foreign Bodies 
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Cardiology Update 2007 - Part I 
11:00 AM Supraclavicular Line: Video Presentation 
11:15 AM Heparin – What is the $%^&# Dose! 
11:30 AM Toxicology Look Alikes 
12:00 PM When BiPaP fails – Try Again 
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Vasopressor Update!  Which, When?
2:30 AM Pediatric Household Toxins 
3:00 PM Cardiology Update 2007 - Part II
3:30 PM ETOH Withdrawal and More 
4:00 PM Adjourn Main Conference
4:15pm-6:30pm  Optional ECG Course – Advanced 
(Amal Mattu, MD) SEPARATE  REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Friday, November 9, 2007
8:00 AM Video Presentation: Day 2 Summary and Smack Down
8:30 AM Pediatric Asthma in the ED 
9:00 AM Peds Visual Dx and Quick Pearls 
9:30 AM Pneumonia 2007
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Peds Propofol Pearls  
10:30 AM STD Therapy 
11:00 AM What’s New in Pre-Hospital Care?
11:30 AM All that Wheezes – Is Probably Bronchiolitis! 
12:00 PM INR Too High! 
12:15 PM End Tidal C02 – Uses in the ED 
12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Avian Flu – What’s New? 
2:30 PM Chest Tube Insertion 
2:45 PM Syncope: The 2007 ACEP Guideline 
3:00 PM Ear Ache: Otitis Media/Externa and No Idea 
3:15 PM ID Update 2007: Antibiotics and More
4:00 PM Adjourn
4:15pm-6:30pm  Virtual Ultrasound Course  (Diku Mandavia, MD, 
Thomas Mailhot, MD) SEPARATE  REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Saturday, November 10, 2007
8:00 AM Video Presentation:  Day 3 Summary and Smack Down
8:15 AM Head Trauma in Infants
8:30 AM Head Trauma and Anticoagulation
8:45 AM Best Papers of 2007 – Part I 
9:00 AM Stepped on a Nail!
9:15 AM Empyema: Dx and Rx 
9:30 AM The Acutely Agitated Patient 
10-00 - 11:00 am Break and check out
11:00 AM Best Papers of 2007 – Part II
11:30 AM AMA and LWBS – The Do’s and Don’ts 
12:00 PM Creating an Efficient, Pro-patient ED
12:30 PM Conference Summary, Emphasis and Smack Down
1:15 PM Adjourn  - see you next year!

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