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…
- Rapid Ultrasound in Hypotension (RUSH Exam)
- 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.
Conference Coordinators & Contact:
Amjad Musleh, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medical Services & Critical Care
Washington University in St. Louis
Departments of Emergency Medicine & Anesthesiology
Medical Director, BJH Acute Care Team
Medical Director, Des Peres Department of Public Safety
Medical Director, Jefferson County CC Paramedic Program
Amjad@wustl.edu
Mary Sullivan, RN, MSN, AGACNP-BC, CCRN
Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
Advanced Practice Provider Leadership
Department of Anesthesiology
Washington University School of Medicine
mary.sullivan@wustl.edu