OVERVIEW
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Course Description
This event will discuss a variety of timely, practical issues that are encountered in the emergency department on a daily basis. Lectures will be engaging, sometimes controversial, and present the audience with examples of both
successes and failures in emergency medicine. Changes don’t always equal advances and advancement doesn’t always mean change. At the end of this program, participants will be able to distinguish between advancement and change in the emergency department in a relaxed, family-oriented environment where learning does equal fun! |
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This program has been designed to include all emergency medicine professionals including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, trauma nurses, residents, and emergency medicine technicians. |
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Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
1) Be up to date in the recognition, assessment, and anagement of the septic patient.
2) Appreciate new modalities and concepts available in the evaluation of chest pain.
3) Recognize and manage pediatric patients with critical illness.
4) Understand the ED management of acute neurological emergencies.
5) Be aware of the diagnosis and management of blunt arterial injury. |
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WORKSHOPS
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Emergency Ultrasound Workshop:
This workshop with focus on the use of ultrasound for acute diagnosis. Studies reviewed will include limited ECHO, FAST, as well as IVC visualization to assess volume status. The session will include both didactic and hands on instruction with models. |
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Emergency Department Regional Anesthesia Workshop:
This workshop will explore specific techniques used for providing regional anesthesia to patients with acute, painful processes. The session will include both didactic and hands on instruction with models. It will include the use of ultrasound to facilitate the success of specific procedures. |
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JOINT EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND SURGERY SESSION
UVM will be concurrently hosting a conference on Surgery. This Emergency Medicine Conference and the Surgery Conference will have a joint session on Thursday afternoon.
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FLASH DRIVE OR SYLLABUS?
Please indicate on the registration panel if you wish to receive a Flash Drive with pdf versions of the presentations in place of a syllabus book with printed handouts. (If you choose a flash drive, then you will be required to bring your laptop. Extra books will not be available at the conference.) |
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Exhibitors
Exhibitors will be present at this conference. |
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Contact Information
Continuing Medical Education
(802) 656-2292
uvmcme@uvm.edu |
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