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Registration: bit.ly/washu-ems

Date/ Time: Monday, October 25, 2021; 8am-4pm

Location: Mid Campus Center (4950 Children’s Place, 5th Floor, St. Louis Mo. 63110)

Audience: Emergency Medicine, Critical Care & EMS Providers: Paramedics, MD, NP, PA, RN/BSN

General Information: This will be a hands on conference where individuals can walk around and go session to session. Each session will be approximately 25-50 minutes with 5-10 learners per session.

CME/CE/CNE Provided.

Cost: $20.00 per attendee, including food. Please bring cash, check or money order. No cards please the day of the event.

Thank you for your interest. As of 9/29/2021, registration is full. We look forward to seeing you the day of the event.

Warm regards.

*Symposium Schedule:

• 08:00– 8:50; Opening lecture and introduction to the conference (people will be split into small groups).
• 09:00 -0:950 – Session 1
• 10:00 – 10:50 – Session 2
• 11:00 – 11:50 – Session 3
• 12:00 – 12:50 – Lunch (provided)
• 13:00 – 13:50 – Session 4
• 14:00 – 14:50 – Session 5
• 15:00 – 15:50 – Session 6

*Stations will last 25 – 50 minutes so students may participate in 1-2 stations per session).

 

Educational Stations:

• ECMO
  • Live Maquet & Centrimag ECMO Set-ups
  • Indications for & how ECMO works
  • Basic troubleshooting
• Impella
  • Live Device Demo with indications & uses
  • Troubleshooting; tip & tricks for transport
• VADs
  • Heart Mate II & III with Heart Ware HVAD Simulator
  • Live patients with implanted LVADs to interact with
• Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps
  • What it is, how it works, troubleshooting
  • Tips and tricks for EMS and transport
• Trans Venous Pacers
  • Simulator on how to float one
  • How to hook it up and adjust settings
• Ventilator
  • Hands on setting manipulation
  • Alarms
  • ARDS management
  • Hands on Proning workshop
• Transesophageal Echo
  • Basic views & manipulation
  • Cardiac arrest management
• Transthoracic Echo
  • Rapid Ultrasound in Hypotension (RUSH Exam)
    • Pneumothorax, tamponade, PE, Dissection, Shock etc…
• Procedure Lab
  • Cricothyrotomy
  • Tracheostomy
  • Chest tube insertion
  • Central line insertion
  • Arterial line insertion
• Equipment
  • End tidal CO2 interpretation, set up and trouble shooting
  • Arterial line set up, trouble shooting and Interpretation
  • PA catheter waveforms
  • General monitor manipulation (pacer mode & data manipulation)
• Medications
  • Vasoactive agents (pressors, pump setup & inotropes)
  • Sedation & paralytics (Dosing & how to test twitches)
  • Inhaled pulmonary vasodilators.

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