2012 NAEMSP Annual Meeting Presentations

NAEMSP® presents the following electronic handouts from our conference in Tucson, Arizona in January, 2012.

 

General Sessions - Thursday, January 12, 2012

Tragedy in Tucson: Conventional Weapon Attack – Brad Bradley, EMT-P, Joshua B. Gaither, MD

Radiation Emergency in Fukushima, Japan – Hiroyuki Hayashi, MD

NAEMSP Position Statement Update & Forum – Michael Millin, MD, MPH

Integrating Pediatric Emergency Medicine and EMS – Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD, Peter Antevy, MD, David Persse, MD

Your Community Should Use the Field Triage Guideline! – E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, John Fildes, MD, FACS, FCCM, Scott Sasser, MD, FACEP

Pediatric EMS Evidence-Based Update -- Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD

 

General Sessions - Friday, January 13, 2012

Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcome Studies (PAROS) – Marcus Ong, MD

James O. Page Memorial Lecture: What Would Jim Page Do? Leading Diverse Groups to Common Outcomes – Jeff Dyer, Fire Commissoner

Lunch & Learn:  Rethinking Sudden Cardiac Arrest - State-Wide Strategies to Improve SCA Survival Rates

• Heart Rescue Partners, Overview, Daniel Spaite, MD, FACEP

 

Concurrent Sessions

Track #1

1A: Controversies in STEMI Care – Kevin Mackey, MD, FACEP, Angelo Salvucci, MD

1B:  Joplin & Alabama Tornado Disaster Response – Elwin Crawford, MD, Sarah Nafzinger, MD, FACEP, Brian Froelke, MS, FACEP

1C: Statewide Implementation of the Prehospital Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines: The EPIC Project –Bentley J. Bobrow, MD, FACEP, Daniel W. Spaite, MD, FACEP

Track #2

2A: Dealing with Behaviorial Emergencies in the Field: Where Are We & Where Do We Need To Be?– Leslie S. Zun, MD

2B: Challenges in Rural/Frontier EMS – Paul Rostykus, MD, MPH, Jim DeTienne

2C: Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities for the EMS Community – Prasanthi Govindarajan, MD, MAS, Manish N. Shah, MD, MPH, Zachary F. Meisel, MD, MPH, MSc

Track #3

3A: Border Patrol & Tactical Medicine: BORSTAR Demonstration – Carl McClafferty, Gerald Bryan

3B: Medical Oversight of Wilderness EMS – Will Smith, MD, NREMT-P

3C:  Well...We're Waiting! Using Radiofrequency Identification Device (RFID) Technology as a Key to ED EMS Gridlock – Sheila Hollinger Steer, MD, FACEP

General Sessions -- Saturday, January 14, 2012

Community Paramedics: Here, There & (Soon) Everywhere --Gary Wingrove, EMT-P (ret), Kevin McGinnis, MPS, EMT-P, Dan Swayze, DrPH, MBA, MEMS

Ventricular Assist Devices: What You & Your EMS Providers Need to Know -- Jacob B. Keeperman, MD

Physician Oversight of EMS Dispatch -- David C. Cone, MD

EMS Subspecialty Certification Update --  Jane Brice, MD, MPH, David C. Cone, MD, Debra Perina, MD, Rick Nelson, MD

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) & the POLST Registry: Communicating Patient Treatment Preferences -- Ritu Sahni, MD, MPH, Terri Schmidt, MD, MS

Bridging the Gap: Pediatric Emergency Medicine & EMS -- Manish I. Shah, MD

The Canadian Evidence-Based Protocol Project -- Andrew H. Travers, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Top 10 Articles-- Michael Millin, MD, MPH, Jon C. Rittenberger, MD, EMT-B, Blair Bigham, MSc ACP