Schedule

Thursday, June 26, 2008

LISA Review
Moderator: Bohan (Brigham)
 
7:00 am to 12:00 pm 2008 Lifetime Learning Self-Assessment Review with immediate online testing access available. (Caro, Godwin, Lipke, Silvers, Bohan)
 
Environmental and Infectious Disease Emergencies
Moderator: Jacobson (Sinai)
 
1:00 pm Heat emergencies: Hot topics in cooling. Lucas (GW)
1:40 pm Life threatening pediatric infections: Keeping our babies alive. Garcia (Sinai)
2:20 pm Drowning: Managing the near death experience. Booth (UF)
2:50 pm Travel medicine: The globalization of emergency medicine. VanRooyen (Brigham)
3:30 pm Break - Visit the Exhibits
 
Risk Management: Lessons learned the hard way
Moderator: Wood (Mayo)
 
4:00 pm Chest pain cases: The ECG holds the secrets. Kosowsky (Brigham)
4:45 pm Airway cases: Troubling cases in RSI. Walls (Brigham)
5:30 pm Stroke cases: Lysis and beyond. Jagoda (Sinai)
6:00 pm The lessons learned: Common denominators to staying out of court. Wood (Mayo)
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm Opening Cocktail Reception
 

Friday, June 27, 2008

Orthopedic Emergencies: Track I - The pulled, the strained, the broken
Moderator: Zane (Brigham)
 
7:30 am Sports injuries: What to look for in our athletes and weekend warriors. Mohseni (Mayo)
8:00 am Pediatric fractures: Its not always what you see. Place (GW)
8:30 am Dislocations: Tricks of the trade. Pauze (GW)
9:00 am Low back pain: When to worry and why. Zane (Brigham)
 
Advanced Ultrasound: Track II - (Limited to 10 registrants)
 
7:30 am The ED bedside ultrasound cardiac evaluation: Ultrasound in venous access. Nelson (Sinai)
9:30 am Break - Visit the Exhibits
 
Critical Care: Staying on the cutting edge
Moderator: Morrissey (UF)
 
10:00 am Post-resuscitation hypothermia: When is it worth the effort? Andrus (Sinai)
10:30 am Getting over the shock: New resuscitative strategies. Weingart (Sinai)
11:00 am New devices for the difficult airway: Not your father’s laryngoscope. Walls (Brigham)
11:30 am Advances in cardiac resuscitation. Vadeboncoeur (Mayo)
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm FERNE luncheon: TIA update. Sloan (FERNE)
 
Chest Pain: Case studies to challenge the experts
 
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm The Chest Pain Dinner Debate. (Jagoda, Kosowsky, Decker)
 

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Abdominal Pain Panel
Moderator: Howell (GW)
 
7:30 am Four cases of abdominal pain: Pediatric and adult cases to stump the experts. (Place, Camarca, Vissers, Morrissey)
 
Disaster Preparedness
 
9:00 am What is homeland security up to and how does it impact emergency medicine? Jolly (GW)
10:00 am Break - Visit the Exhibits
 
Practice Guideline Update
Moderator: Decker (Mayo)
 
10:30 am Hyperbarics in CO poisoning. Sloan (FERNE)
10:45 am Heart Failure. Howell (GW)
11:00 am Community Acquired Pneumonia. Nazarian (Sinai)
11:15 am Headache. Edlow (ACEP)
11:30 pm Pediatric sedation. Godwin (UF)
11:45 pm Syncope. Peeters (ACEP)

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