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10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
What’s the difference between anaphylactic and anaphylactoid, and do I need to care? What are the most important ALS medications for anaphylaxis after epinephrine? What the heck is Kounis syndrome? Why didn't they teach me this in class? The past 10 years have seen a dramatic increase in read more...
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
This presentation reviews the science of pediatric cardiac arrest and the development of criteria for futility in pediatric patients. Beyond that evidence base, there are a number of social and emotional considerations that must factor into a TOR protocol for pediatric patients. This presentation reviews the findings from read more...
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
In 2019, the National Registry conducted an analysis of advanced life support (ALS--i.e., paramedic and advanced emergency medical technicians) practice across the nation. The analysis was conducted using a methodology similar to the practice analysis conducted by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. The practice analysis used data read more...
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
The unthinkable has happened! After decades of economic prosperity, rising call volumes and revenue, and healthcare growth, the world changed–overnight. Call volumes are down, sales taxes have tanked, and thousands of EMS and public safety jobs are on the line. Remember when there was a paramedic shortage? How read more...
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Another overdose ... great! Can you figure out what the patient overdosed on from how he presented? Today's street drugs are ever evolving. From the different types of Fentanyl to exquisite drugs like DMT, the names keep changing, so shouldn’t we when assessing them? Come see what the read more...
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
No organization should be without a public information officer. None. In an age of social media, changing media landscapes, and the ability for anyone to speak with the public, it is more important than ever that every EMS operation have at least one person focused full time on read more...
10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
While endotracheal intubation has long been a key procedure in the management of cardiac arrest, it is often done while focusing solely on getting the tube in the right hole. All too often, paramedics (and physicians) pay insufficient attention to what is happening to the patients while they read more...
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
I will discuss how to decrease transports, improve care and address opiate addiction.
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11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
The American Heart Association (AHA), the Resuscitation Academy, and Laerdal have partnered to double survival from cardiac arrest by 2028. Join us to exceed this goal, saving maximal lives from cardiac arrest. The Chain of Survival … all links are not equal? The first link, 911 working with read more...
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
This is a practice-based discussion (NOT a journal club, don't worry!) of 10 papers that changed Dr. Jarvis’ EMS practice in 2020. These are papers, for good or bad, that all paramedics, system directors, and medical directors should know about. We’ll cover topics including dual sequence defibrillation (DSD), read more...
11:30 AM-12:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
In this age of technology, there have been many advances in the development of rapid testing. This is a great benefit in the post exposure testing situation--quick answers that are accurate and can, in most cases, bring concerns for disease transmission to a rapid close. Let's discuss what read more...
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
You joined for the excitement, but the complaining makes you want to pull your hair out! Have you ever wondered why members quit or why no one wants to hang out at the station any longer? Maybe they are tired of listening to all of the negativity. We read more...
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
The options for resuscitating patients are becoming more complex. EMS providers are going to be involved in the care of these patients. This is an overview of E-CPR, VADs, and ECMO and the scenarios in which they are commonly used. Field providers will come away with a better read more...
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
The target audience for this program is EMS providers of all types/levels/certifications who may be exposed to patients with high-consequence communicable diseases. The course aims to increase awareness about standard and transmission-based infection control practices and considers current high-consequence infectious diseases like COVID-19, MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome), read more...
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
This presentation will show how one community college's EMS program developed a mass-casualty incident (MCI) drill program and implemented a critical thinking assignment to evaluate students. We will discuss what obstacles had to be overcome, how to budget and finance the program, what community partners were used to read more...
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID—previously known as mental retardation) have characteristics that can have a profoundly challenging impact on interactions with EMS providers during a medical or traumatic emergency. This session will discuss various characteristics of individuals with ID; suggestions for determining capacity and obtaining informed consent; ways read more...
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
The National EMS Education Standards have been revised. The revision team’s leadership will cover the project’s goals and some of the most significant changes to the standards while providing rationale for the changes. Additionally, several confusing concepts will be clarified: What are the differences between education standards, curriculum, read more...
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
CPAP, BiPAP, and High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) are all Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) tools that help improve patient comfort and outcomes. This presentation will provide a history of NIV, overview of various NIV tools, patient selection criteria, standards of care, assessment, application, titration, and weaning of NIV. CPAP, read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on how medicine is delivered now and well into the future. As part of Northwell Health's Center for EMS response to the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC, learn how a new 911 direct to telemedicine intervention is keeping patients safely at home while read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Remote Ischemic Conditioning (RIC—aalso known as “Ischemic Conditioning”) reduces ischemia-reperfusion injury in a wide range of clinical conditions. RIC is noninvasive, easy to perform, and low-risk, requiring nothing more than a BP cuff and a clock. Rural and air-medical EMS services with longer transport times may be particularly read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
In this presentation, the panel will present several recent scientific papers and discuss their findings. The panel will then discuss the relevance to EMS providers and how literature may affect our practice. The panel will also take questions from the audience.
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8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Refusals are a high-risk area of EMS practice. This session will cover the history of a patient’s right to refuse medical care, the prerequisite for EMS to accept a patient’s refusal. We will discuss how to protect a patient’s rights while protecting ourselves against allegations that a patient read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
For more than 20 years, Ben Gurion University in the Negev in Israel has had a bachelor’s degree for paramedics. This dedicated degree is unique, and this presentation will share its experience in developing, teaching, and recruiting future paramedics.
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9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Gray zone tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) are employed by nation-states and violent extremist organizations daily against the US. Gray zone TTPs fall below the level of warfare, but include tactics such as cyber activity, disinformation campaigns and attacks on vulnerable infrastructure. This session will discuss gray read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
During COVID-19, EMT students in the United Arab Emirates were forced to stay at home and all face-to-face classes was stopped. So EMS educators decided that it was the perfect time to develop and offer innovative ways to educate their students using online resources and shifting all education read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
This is a case study of how the instructor dealt with his experience surviving septic shock. After treating many patients for many years, he suddenly found himself for the first time as a critical patient. This presentation will deal with the medical side of sepsis and treating sepsis read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
There are “difficult airways” and there are seemingly “impossible airways.” This case-based class will use vivid examples (trauma, angioedema, etc.) of seemingly impossible airways and discuss strategies to overcome the profound challenges these situations pose to the prehospital provider.
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9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
EMS use of ketamine is relatively new. Evidence suggests it is both safe and effective for Excited Delirium Syndrome, procedural sedation, and analgesia. This potent, general anesthetic agent also creates unique challenges heretofore unknown in EMS. This presentation will review the background of EMS ketamine, use in multiple read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
EMS providers are aware that lifting and moving patients is a high-risk activity both for the patient and for the provider. This presentation will provide a framework for EMS in how to make the risk assessment when faced with lifting and moving challenges. Whether or not to allow read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
The Coronavirus has changed our world, and EMS delivery, forever. EMS’ role in the communities we serve, how we care for our workforce, and our approach to patient care delivery have been dramatically transformed as a result of the pandemic. What have been the major lessons for EMS read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
The overall survival for pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is 6.4% and lower in infants compared with children and adolescents. A greater survival rate is seen in pediatric patients with witnessed CA vs. unwitnessed in patients receiving bystander CPR and in patients with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in read more...
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Recent societal events have focused on misconduct by law enforcement and improper use of chokeholds and other restraint mechanisms. But police officers are not the only ones who may act improperly, causing harm to others. It happens in EMS agencies, too! This dynamic and thought-provoking session will discuss read more...
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
The EMS way tends to be “That is how we have always done it.” This most dangerous statement illustrates to not change anything, do what you are told, and be quiet. Are we still doing things this way and, if so, why? Our world is ever evolving, and read more...
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
EVALI (E-Cigarette and Vaping Associated Lung Injury) became a major public health threat seemingly overnight. In this lecture, we will discuss the history and epidemiology of the EVALI epidemic, the pathophysiology and suspected cause of lung injury, the clinical presentation, and the prehospital management of EVALI. We will read more...
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Over the past decade, the various recommendations and guidelines for basic CPR This reliably prognosticating speaker will predict the future of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) practices including optimal combinations of chest compression rate/depth; the rationale for not conducting clinical trials and adopting comprehensive read more...
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Airway training mannequins are expensive! Not all EMS Agencies have the funding to provide new and dynamic airway trainers, but all EMS providers deserve to have realistic training! In this presentation, the speaker will discuss a DIY approach to airway training with some low-cost but high-fidelity options.
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Regular medical and recreational use of cannabis is on the rise among all age groups. In most cases, this is associated with few side effects, but some regular users experience a wildly paradoxical reaction. While cannabis will normally suppress nausea and pain and stimulate appetite, weekly cannabis use read more...
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Overdoses are not an unusual reason for EMS calls. While the vast majority will do well with supportive care, there are certain overdoses with the potential for sudden deterioration and death if they are not managed aggressively. We will discuss five overdoses that every EMS provider should know read more...
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
The pathway to mitigation of a true “can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate” situation is very direct—a cricothyrotomy. Many paramedics will never perform this procedure in their career; are YOU ready? The low-frequency, high-risk nature of this procedure mandates absolute knowledge of the anterior neck anatomy, frequent practice, and procedural read more...
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Montgomery County was a COVID-19 hotspot in the state of Maryland, and the Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service (MCFRS) transported more than 1,500 COVID-19 patients during the pandemic and was faced with surges at local hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. Using public and internal data streams, the read more...
4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Burnout among EMS professionals has negative effects for agencies, providers, and patients. Nevertheless, traditional interventions for reducing burnout are often focused on the individual and fail to address the true systematic causes. In this session, Dr. Remle Crowe will discuss the latest research and read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
We talk a lot about organizational culture in EMS, but ask a line officer what it really means and he’ll stammer and stumble. Leaders cannot simply declare there will be a good culture; they must inspire it. And, culture is not something that can be set and forgotten. read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Soon after the novel coronavirus arrived in the United States, federal agencies with a role in EMS planning joined together with nongovernment stakeholders to form a prehospital/EMS group as part of the FEMA Healthcare Resiliency Task Force. Coordinating closely with members of the EMS community, the group provided read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
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8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Severely agitated patients are frequently encountered in prehospital settings. If not carefully treated, the deadly end stage Excited Delirium can develop. What treatments are evidence based to decrease morbidity and mortality in these settings? How can EMS best handle these difficult patient interactions?
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8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a sudden blockage in a lung artery. It usually happens when a blood clot breaks loose and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs. Half the people who have pulmonary embolism have no symptoms. If you do have symptoms, they can include shortness read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Errors in medication dosing remain a huge problem in the pre-hospital medical community. The ever-evolving scope of practice for the EMT and paramedic often leads to a culture of “I should know” rather than incorporating much-needed checks and balances. Although measuring tapes, cheat sheets, specialized bags, phone apps, read more...
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Delivered in a logical and pragmatic format, this presentation delivers case studies to highlight the role of EMS in the stabilization of the burn patient including discussion of initial triage, fluid resuscitation, intubation decisions, inhalation injuries, and treatment interventions. Emergent care and stabilization of the patient with a read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
The Middle East has been working the enhancement of EMS in this highly populated region. With trauma being the second leading cause of death in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), accounting for more than 20% of all fatalities, the UAE has made trauma research, prehospital care, and public read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
In this all new for 2021 session, a wide ranging journey through the Seattle/King County Medic One system will highlight cases from the perspective of the call takers, emergency medical dispatchers, EMTs, paramedics, and physicians who put in the hard work to make the system successful. This popular read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Sporting events, concerts, fairs, political gatherings, and graduations are just a few events that can take place within your community. As EMS providers, what do you need to do to keep attendees safe and well? The presenter will discuss ways to partner with the event planner read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Where do future EMS leaders come from? How do we find them? What do we do when we do find them? Many organizations promote from within, which leads to an excellent career ladder if it is done properly. However, these promotions are often based on the clinical acumen read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
A lessons learned gleaming of common operational sense for the street provider. read more...
9:30 AM-10:30 AM
Format: Individual Presentation
Starting in 1994, the instructor has watched several fire/EMS friends suffer with what has been called (over the years) stress, distress, CIS, and PTSD. Of those, one died, one lost his career, and two went on to eventually recover from the experience. Amid a culture of silence, more read more...
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Social media has evolved into a regular part of how our society shares information, opinions, and perspectives. By some measures, it has become the primary method used many members of society to express themselves altogether. This interactive discussion examines our tendency to express our stressors through social media read more...
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Have you ever wondered what happens to your trauma patients after you drop them off at the hospital? This session has several case discussions with a trauma surgeon who is also a former paramedic. He will highlight the inner workings of a busy, urban Level 1 read more...
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sacramento Department of Public Health partnered with Sacramento Metro Fire, Cosumnes Fire, and Sacramento City Fire to build and stand up a robust Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program to serve as an extension of the arms of public health into the community. In read more...
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Events involving demonstrations and protests disrupt normal EMS operations and require a coordinated medical response with properly trained and oriented personnel who can move on a moment’s notice and in accordance with a special command and control structure. Planning and capabilities to support Civil Disobedience Units and other read more...
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Millions of Americans experience mental illness each year. NAMI reports that 1 in 5 American adults will experience mental illness and 1 in 25 will experience serious mental illness. Participants will learn about the current trends and prevalence rates of mental illnesses including anxiety, depression, and psychosis. They read more...
11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Your agency experienced an incident resulting in a sentinel event. Now what? Reacting quickly to the incident with a prescribed procedure and actions can demonstrate your commitment to safety and ensure the proper information is collected to fulfill an incident investigation’s ultimate purpose, not assigning blame but the read more...
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
The vision put forth in EMS Agenda 2050 calls for a people-centered approach to EMS that includes a more seamless, less siloed system. A key piece of that effort will be better integration of pre-hospital, hospital, and other healthcare data. Integrating data systems and allowing more access to read more...
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Learn how to shift the culture of Me to We from this JEMS "Another Dose" Podcast host. You will learn what it takes to build a thriving culture from the inside out. Employees who are engaged as a TEAM and thriving will lead the organization to higher retention read more...
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
This program is compelling, high energy, and graphic. It is a real-life look at "running a peds code." The program begins with a review of pediatric arrest physiology. It stresses appropriate BLS management, followed by guideline-driven basic and advanced life support measures. Using live footage and emphasizing realistic read more...
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Regardless of if you’ve overheard a plan for a small town parade with a few hundred participants or are involved in a large city event with hundreds of thousands of attendees, you have a very integral seat at the pre-event planning table. Most special events, by their very read more...
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
This is an overview of emergencies that can happen in the post-partum period. Topics will include post-partum cardiomyopathy, eclampsia, thromboembolic disease, and more.
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12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Recent research found that there are an estimated 313,000 victims of human trafficking in Texas. National estimates suggest that 87.8% of victims of human trafficking come in contact with healthcare providers. However, most tools to identify victims of human trafficking are designed for social service and clinical environments. read more...
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Who defines the emergency system? The federal government? Hospitals and the medical community? The insurance companies? The community? As leaders, we must plan ahead. This presentation will look at the evolution of emergency care and look ahead to how America will effectively provide unscheduled acute care. The discussion read more...
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
Format: Individual Presentation
Spinal immobilization and spinal motion restriction should not just be a change in verbiage; they must be a change in practice. Although high-performance EMS systems stopped immobilizing ALL trauma patients years ago, many other systems have resisted the change, evidence notwithstanding. This session starts with a historical perspective read more...
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