What’s up with kid’s brains today?   This is an evidence based evaluation of current literature aimed at maximizing cerebral resuscitation and outcomes in children.

Objectives:

1. Learn some of the palthology that contributes to cerebral damage.
2. Know that hypoxia and shock are key detriments in cerebral resuscitation.
3. Know the critical blood pressures and pCO2 needed to optimize outcome from brain injuries.

Late in 2008 three social networking sites were introduced for EMTs. Powered by the Ning platform these sites intend to duplicate the wildly successful Facebook by narrowing the focus of the social network to EMS professionals. Content and interaction on web based social networks is user driven. Users are invited and encouraged to make friends, upload images and photos, start and contribute to groups, answer forum questions, and contribute blog content. The purposes of social networking sites include recreating the atmosphere of an industry conference and building loyalty to a brand. This conference presentation will describe the development and use of social networks. It will also specifically address strategies managers and educators can apply to build groups, deliver education, and increase participation by the specific cohorts that they are organizing and teaching. We will also cover the importance of leading, monitoring, and participating in the online conversation about your service or organization. EMS providers and customers are talking about you online, regardless of your participation or permission.

Objectives:

1. Describe types of social networks
2. Show social network features
3. Discuss development of EMS specific social networks from December 2008 to October 2009
4. Explore potential uses of social networks for personnel communication and education
5. Answer attendee questions about social networks for communication and education

1. Introduce the changing environment ED personnel are now exposed to.
2. Discuss the ED focus on safety.
3. Discuss and demonstrate the use of self -defense techniques for ED personnel.

Bring your cold weather gear! This outdoor hands-on event will incorporate Just-In-Time training and an avalanche response scenario. Tom Mattice, Avalanche Forecaster with the City of Juneau, will lead this interactive event.

Goldbelt Mount Robert's Tramway generously donated the lift up and down the mountain, as well as the training ground.

Tentative Objectives

1. Discuss the motivations and methods that led to the formation of the Juneau Communiity Suicide Prevention Task Force (JCSPTF)
2. Explain the mission and the work of the JCSPTF
3. Discuss the beneifts of collaborating with other agencies to reduce the number of suicide calls in the participant's community
4. List three resources or methods to consider to assist with a community-wide approach to suicide prevention

Online education is the most dynamic and fastest growing component of emergency responder education. The vendor expo has more companies than ever selling subscriptions and programs for online education. Web 2.0 is rapidly changing how online education is distributed, delivered, and discussed. Education programs are migrating from the desktop computer to iPods, mP3 players, smartphones and PDAs as m-learning programs. 3-D virtual simulations are used for emergency responder training and evaluation. This session will discuss emerging trends in online emergency responder education and discuss how to evaluate tools and technologies for your organization.

Greg Friese develops online education programs for emergency responders. He has led the production and design of new education programs, as well as conversion of existing classroom content for online delivery. His content is used by first responders, EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, emergency department personnel, physicians, and telecommunicators.

Objectives:

1. Describe current types of online education
2. Show current availability and participation in online education
3. Discuss emerging technologies that will impact online education
4. Answer attendee questions about online education trends

This lecture reviews one hyperactive Pediatric Intensivist’s aggressive approach to treating refractory status asthmaticus in children.

Objectives:

1. Learn risk factors for asthma mortality.
2. Learn one approach for treating life-threatening asthma attacks.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Dr. Michael Copass will present cases that illustrate creative responses to nursing challenges.  Specific attention will be given to diagnosis, treatment, and referral criteria.  This luncheon will be an opportunity for Southeast Alaska nurses to gather and participate in discussions regarding case management.

Your expertise and knowledge are needed.  Meet with your fellow Southeast EMS agencies during this low-key gathering moderated by SEREMS Council Executive Director, Bobbi Leichty, MICP.  Together you will address region-wide concerns facing today's EMS managers.  All past, current, and future EMS Chiefs and Managers are invited to participate.  RSVP to the SEREMS Council office at (907) 747-8005.

Proposed Description

Fire departments, with the low (but still devastating) number of fires relative to EMS calls, pour plenty of resources into fire prevention. We should be preventing EMS just as energetically. Whatever calls squads have too much of in a community- all the different categories of intentional and unintentional injury, water-related emergencies, alcohol-related (that encompasses nearly everything), effects of heart disease or smoking, whatever- they should be able to do something about reducing those calls.

What can they do? What resources are at their disposal? How can they mobilize their communities to help reduce tragic calls? What tools do they have available to even begin noticing the impact of a particular issue- what should they do to document and research the impact on the community of a particular type of call? What resources are available at the state or federal level? Could we come up with some kind of a blueprint for build-it-yourself community-driven injury prevention?

Commercial moulage kits are expensive, complicated, and often don’t meet the instructors needs.

Have less than 30 minutes before your drill starts? Provide professional quality moulage using supplies readily available at your local grocery store. Learn how to make realistic-looking blood, burns, eviscerations, fractures, penetrations, and pre-made reusable wounds. Have a great moulage trick? Come share it with the class during the interactive workshop.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

1. Discuss and apply basic airway management techniques.
2. Discuss and apply advanced airway techniques.
3. Discuss tricks of the trade intubation techniques and use new airway management tools.
4. Discuss surgical airway techniques.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Early Disaster Response to the Earthquake in Haiti Member of a medical team, Margaret Bortko, FNP, EMT-P discusses various perspectives as a rescuer in the initial emergency response 3 days post-quake. The Hope for Haiti team provided the initial care in General Hospital at Port Au Prince and set up a clinic at the tent city of 7,000 in Carrefour.

Objectives:

1. Participants will identify the multiple challenges of initial emergency response to a natural disaster MCI.
2. Participants will gain insight into the physical and emotional impact of this disaster upon both victim and rescuer.
3. Participants will examine the influences on morbidity and mortality in Haiti.

Dr. Bill Kriegsman will draw upon his years of military experience to coordinate a combat resuscitation scenario. Kriegsman has been deployed three times with the United States Army Medical Corps. This moulage-intense scenario will simulate the chaos, noise, and pandemonium that often impede emergency medical care; it will be both fun and challenging. Be ready for an adrenalin rush.

Dr. William Anthes of Ketchikan General Hospital will present case studies that highlight the clinical decision making process. In this interactive presentation, the audience will be asked to participate in deciding the course of treatment ranging from initial triage to transport decisions.  Don't miss this opportunity to learn from Dr. Anthes' extensive experience in the clinical decision making process.

Objectives:

1. Evaluate the clinical decision making process.
2. Discuss progression of illness or injury
3. Select appropriate interventions for each case presented
4. Explain the pathophysiology of each case presented.

The resuscitation academy will draw upon the intensive week-long Seattle/King County Cardiac Resuscitation Academy curriculum, presenting pertinent principles for the Southeast Alaska medical community. Learn how years of research and intervention analysis have resulted in Seattle/King County having one of the nation’s highest rates of successful cardiac arrest resuscitations. 

Dr. Michael Copass of Seattle’s Medic One Program will present clinically induced hypothermia/patient chilling. Copass will share progress/results of prehospital hypothermia following resuscitation and relay what has been learned about post-arrest care of patients in hospitals and clinics. Dr. Copass will also present the latest information on new resuscitation technology.

Dr. Thomas Rea, Program Medical Director for King County, will discuss evidence-based interventions to improve outcomes for cardiac arrest patients and the future of arrest management: changing roles for the clinical and prehospital healthcare providers. Dr. Rea will also partner with Dr. Copass to guide a medical director’s forum on barriers and opportunities to improvement.

Seattle Fire Department’s Lt. Jonathan Larsen and Paramedic Norm Nedell will demonstrate how to incorporate cardiac arrest management training practices from their paramedic program into training for all prehospital and clinical responders. Learn the Copass Line and techniques to minimize hands-off time, and test your CPR prowess against the state-of-the-art Laerdal Skillmaster manikin.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Course description and objectives will be posted as soon as they are available.

Dr. Copass will close the conference with a handful of case reviews. We challenge you to sit up front, answer some questions, and test your critical thinking skills.

Objectives:

1. Discuss common patient presentations in Southeast Alaska
2. Review initial and continuing management of patients in a frontier setting
3. Describe the critical thinking process and its application to medicine