Course Objectives:

• Discuss the role evidence plays in medical care.
• Review current medical literature and unresolved issues with the management of severe traumatic brain injury.
• Describe the history of aeromedical evacuation and it’s evolution.
• Discuss the role of EMS and Emergency Department in building Acute Care Surgery.
• Review how to safely and effectively treat and control the patient with excited delirium.
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of stroke.
• Discuss communication between Emergency Department and EMS in the pre-hospital setting.
• Identify failures in communication between healthcare personnel.

Target Audience:

            - EMT’s

            - Paramedics

            - Nurses

            - Emergency Physicians

Location: St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Auditorium

Program:

7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.                 Registration/Breakfast

8:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.                 Opening Remarks

8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.                “Evidence-Based Pre-Hospital Care: The best of EMS Research”   

                                                David Adinaro, MD, SJRMC

                                                Chief, Adult Emergency Department

9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.              “Medical and Surgical Management of TBI”

                                                Anthony D’Ambrosio, MD, SJRMC

                                                Chief, Division of Neurological Surgery

Break – 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.            “Aeromedical Evacuation from Battlefront to Homefront:

                                                Flying the Unfriendly to Friendly Skies”

                                                Dennis Castro, BSN, RN, SJRMC

                                                Trauma Program Manager

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.            “Acute Care Surgery: What is it?”
                                                Vicente Gracias, MD, FACS, FCCP, FCCM, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

                                                Medical Director, Trauma and Surgical Care

Lunch – 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.                “Excited Delirium, Positional Asphyxia and NJOEMS Restraint Guideline”

                                                Kevin Webb, RN, CEN, MICP, SJRMC

                                                Senior Staff Paramedic

1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.               “Emergency Management of Stroke”

                                                Dorothea Altschul, MD, SJRMC

                                                Clinical Director, Department of Neuroscience

2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.                “EMS Communication and Box Call Review”

                                                Julie Sanicola, DO, SJRMC

                                                Chief Resident, Emergency Department

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.                “Critical Communication—it’s not only what you say”

                                                James Pruden, MD, FACEP, SJRMC

                                                Director, Emergency Preparednesss, Emergency Medical Services and Telemedicine

4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.                 Certificate Distribution

Kindly register before January 20, 2012:

            Register online at: http://sjemsconference.eventbrite.com

Symposium Location:

St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center Auditorium

703 Main Street, Paterson, NJ 07503

For directions, visit StJosephsHealth.org

This conference is FREE. Breakfast and lunch will be provided by the Emergency Department at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center.

For questions please call,

Sharon Pineda, RN, BSN

Program Coordinator

973.754.2253