PRE-009 EMS Safety Course
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 8 CEU
Target Audience: AllNAEMT’s EMS Safety course aims to promote a culture of EMS safety and help reduce the number and intensity of injuries incurred by EMS practitioners. The curriculum covers crew resource management, emergency vehicle safety, responsibilities in scene operations, patient handling, patient, practitioner and bystander safety, and personal health. Students will need the required student text, available at www.emergencystuff.com.
Course Fee: $27/studentInstructor: Daniel Linkins • Co-Instructor: Shannon Daniel
Limited to: 30
PRE-010 Enhanced Visual Presentations: Creating Effective Visual Case Studies
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 8 CEU
Target Audience: EducatorsCreate visual case studies that enhance any presentation! Given a template and a medical topic, plan, stage, and photograph YOUR visual case study. Learn about media usage as well as how taking your own photos provides creative control and ownership. Learn and enhance your photography using any camera and then learn some basic digital enhancement. The day ends with a critique that will teach essential graphic design principles. This is an interactive and hands-on pre-conference class that requires a laptop computer and digital camera.
Instructor: Kyle Bates
Limited to: 24
PRE-011 Illegal Trends & Awareness for EMS Personnel
BLS 5 / ALS 76 / 8 CEU
Target Audience: BLS, RN, AdministratorsThis dynamic lecture educates EMS providers in recognizing illegal narcotics and associated paraphernalia. The class will deal with signs and symptoms of illegal narcotic use, evaluation of scene safety and recognition of commonly used items for illegal production of narcotics. Will include all the newest drug issues to date EMS and first responders have to deal with.
Instructor: Jamie Huling
BLS Various / ALS Various / 8 CEU
Target Audience: BLS, ALSThe ITLS Basic and Advanced Provider Recertification Course is designed to provide the student with the most up to date information in the care of the trauma patient. Attendees must hold a current ITLS Basic or ITLS Advanced Provider card. It is strongly recommended that students review the 7th Edition ITLS text prior to the course. Students should bring their current ITLS provider card.
Course Fee: $30/studentInstructor: Amy L. Ward
Limited to: 24
PRE-013 Mass Casualty Incident Management I and II
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 8 CEU
Target Audience: AllModule I prepares students to take appropriate initial control actions in a mass casualty performing the initial triage of patients. Module II prepares students to assume staff positions and direct effective action within the Medical Group of an incidentincident management system.
Instructor: Karen C. Owens • Co-Instructor: Frank Cheatham
Limited to: 24
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 8 CEU
Target Audience: BLS, DispatcherThis class covers the dangers of responding to emergency calls on or around railroad property, highlighting hazards commonly found. It is an eight hour class of PowerPoint, video and pictures of hazards that the emergency responders will encounter on calls involving the railroad. Safety for the EMS provider will be covered.
Instructor: John Sherrill
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 4 CEU
Target Audience: AllThis workshop will take the basics learned in the “Free Money” workshop and work with the participants to understand the basics of writing, reviewing, commenting and making recommendations on grant applications. Actual grant applications will be reviewed and the participants will provide suggestions based on the class guidance. Participants will work in groups to write an EMS grant application and receive input from the audience members. This is an excellent class for beginners and advanced grant writers.
Instructor: Amanda Davis
BLS 3 / ALS 71 / 1.5 CEU
Target Audience: BLS, ALSGet ready to play! Utilizing an interactive audience response system the students will “play” 20 questions airway management style. This presentation will focus on current trends, myths and misconceptions of advanced airway management. All topic questions will be evidence-based when possible.
Instructor: Fred Ellinger, Jr.
EDU-801 Incorporating Critical Thinking in Education: Teaching not Just how but Why
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 1.5 CEU
Target Audience: Administrators, EducatorsIt’s clear that critical thinking must be part of an education program for responders to become intelligent, compassionate and skillful, but how do we accomplish this with current curricula? This presentation is for anyone who wants to incorporate these skills into course content and testing. Critical thinking is vital for effective delivery of emergency services and as
a lifelong learning skill necessary for our people to excel as care providers.Instructor: Rommie Duckworth
OPE-4001 The Role of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in a Mass Fatality Event
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 1.5 CEU
Target Audience: AllThe Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) needs qualified, trained partners who understand legal and public health aspects of a disaster event. When disasters happen, there is no time to plan or train for our mission and needs. With this presentation, we hope to be proactive and develop EMS resource partnerships.
Instructor: Leah Bush
BLS 10 / ALS 91 / 3 CEU
Target Audience: BLS, ALS, RNLecture and hands-on practical of childbirth emergencies. Lecture/Discussion-based forum will be followed by case scenario practicals to include: normal delivery, placenta previa, multiple births, limb presentation, umbilical presentation, breech presentation, and neonatal resuscitation.
Instructor: Doreen McAndrews
Limited to: 16
AIR-202 Difficult Airway Management: A Philosophy of Success!
BLS 3 / ALS 88 / 1.5 CEU
Target Audience: BLS, ALSThis presentation presents fundamentalmethods to rapidly size-up difficult airway conditions and illustrates new tricks, tools and techniques in airway management, as well as novel ways to use the tools that we already have. This program utilizes the latest research and expert opinion to show that less is more as BLS techniques are used to improve ALS airway management of the toughest airway emergencies.
Instructor: Rommie Duckworth
OPE-4002 Engine Company Operations for Cardiac Arrest
BLS CAT 2 / ALS CAT 2 / 1.5 CEU
Target Audience: BLSEffective and systematic delivery of care during a cardiac arrest in the prehospital environment can be challenging. These incidents tend to be manpower intensive and at times chaotic. This program specifically addresses these concerns. This course was built out of necessity with a focus on crew resource management and the assignment of equipment and roles and responsibilities of personnel to streamline the delivery of care and limit confusion and redundancies.
Instructor: Fred Ellinger, Jr. • Co-Instructor: Joseph Schili
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