Lectures Take a Second Look: What We Miss in Strangulation Injuries Cheryl Bakhtiari, EMT-P TBA Jeff Beeson, DO, FACEP, EMT-P Excited Delirium Syndrome: What You Need to Know Toxidromes: Old and New Bryan Bledsoe, DO, FACEP, FAEMS Thoracic Park Scotty Bolleter, BS, EMTP Stephen Rahm, NRP I Believe I Can Fly: Procedural Run’ology Scotty Bolleter, BS, EMTP Scott Lail, EMT-P, FP-C Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Small Airplane Crash Response and Triage Methamphetamine: From the Streets to the Emergency Room Your Off-Duty Behavior Could Impact You While On-Duty Ken Bouvier, Paramedic Severe Burns: Initial Assessment and Management Stephanie Campbell, BSN RN CCRN Changing Gears in Your Driving Culture Shaun, Curtis, BS, EMT-P Battered? Broken? … Or Is It Something More? Marcella Donaruma, MD, FAAP Responding to the Dallas Active Shooter: A Personal Story Alexander Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS The Final Collision Russian Roulette: The American Way Chris Ebright, B.Ed., NRP Are You a Technician or Are You a Clinician? Low-Tech in a High-Tech World: Patient Assessment Technology Pearls And Pitfalls Bryan Ericson, M.Ed., RN, NRP, LP Non-Accidental Trauma: Pediatric Crisis Old MacDonald Had a Multi-Systems Trauma: What You Need to Know about Farm Trauma What’s Your Sign? Medical and Trauma Assessment Signs for EMS Reuben Farnsworth, NRP, CCP-C Flying EMS: Drones to the Rescue! Solo Responders: Useful Resource or Insanity?
Tamsin Fuller, BSc(Hons) AMInstP Safety Around Animals for EMS Providers Bob Garrison, DVM, MS, EMT Capnography: Best Practices, Documentation and Advanced Use Dingers, Stunners and Getting Your Bell Rung: Recognition and Treatment of Concussion Steven "Kelly" Grayson, NRP, CCEMT-P Just One Time: How to See Every Patient from a "High Reliability" Organizational View Vernon Gresham, LP Humpty Dumpty Revisited (Again): Not Just Falling! (TBI, CTE and Head Injury Science) Jeff Hayes, MPH, LP Germs Gone Wild: Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, and EMS Focus Gary Hecker, RN, CCRN, AEMT Breathing EASY: Avoiding Airway Folly in Big City EMS Levi Hejl, EMT-P Rural Roundtable Discussion Greg Henington, Paramedic Challenges in Frontier Medicine: A Case Study Approach Greg Henington, Paramedic Hemant Vankawala, MD How Clean Is Clean? I'm Not From Around Here… Models of Prehospital Care around the World Stephen Hines, BSc Hons Delayed Sequence Intubation: A Cure for RSD (Rapidly Sequenced Death) Jeffrey Jarvis, MD, EMT-P When Plan-A Is Not an Option: Rattlesnake Envenomation of a Two-Year-Old Child Ryan Kelley, AAS, LP, NRP, FP-C As If Heroin Wasn’t Enough? Will Krost, MD, MBA, NRP Rural Hunting Emergencies 101: From the Back Roads to the Landing Zone Catherine Kuhlmann, Paramedic/FF Normal vs. Special-Needs Patients: Let's Redefine “Normal” Trains, Trauma and Teamwork… One Man's New Life Scott Lail, EMT-P, FP-C Let's Get Back to the Basics That Patient Looks Pissed: Handling the Aggressive Patient Jason Martin, RN NREMTP
Forensics in EMS: Are You Ready for the Call? Lana Martin, RN CPEN TCRN "But We've Always Done It This Way." EMS Mythbusters 2017 When a Home "BRUE" Goes Bad: Scary Infant Episodes and the End of the ALTE Ronna Miller, MD Challenges with Behavioral Health Mark Montgomery, RN/LP CPR-Induced Consciousness Five Studies from 2016 That Could Change Your Future Practice Kenneth Navarro The First Six Hours: Management of LODD Understanding Benefits and Family Care After an LODD Texas LODD Task Force Do I Need a Lawyer? Wes Ogilvie, MPA, JD, NRP, LP Pediatric Interactive! When a Heart Goes Bad: The Saga of Heart Failure Bob Page, M.Ed, CCP, NCEE Can I Get a Witness!? What Happens When You're Called as a Witness in Court Michael Parker, BS, JD, CIFI, LPI William Gribble, BA, MPA, CLEP Wait, You Called an Ambulance for This? Jason Quick, BS, NRP, LP Human Trafficking: It's Still in Your Neighborhood… Crissie Richardson, RN, CEN, CPEN Cassandra Campbell, BSN, RN, CPEN Poor Prognostic Indicators (Medical): A BLS Patient Assessment Review Poor Prognostic Indicators (Trauma): A BLS Patient Assessment Review Stu Rosenhaus, BS, EMT, CIC ALS Assessment Tips for BLS Providers BLS Treatment of Traumatic Amputations Gary Saffer, MPA, NRP Kiddo Cases: Pediatric Case Studies Through the Eyes of a Child: Pediatric Poisoning Jules Scadden, Paramedic Ask Joe! Q&A with State EMS Director Joe Schmider Patient Refusals: Legal Liabilities When Patients Say No
Mark Smith, JD, MBA Just the Basics: Pharmacology for the EMT To Pee or Not to Pee: Renal Failure and Dialysis in EMS Janet Taylor, CFRN, NREMT-B STEMI Recognition Made Easy Alan Taylor, MD Sepsis Management Made Easy The Time the Guy Had that Head Bleed Larry Torrey, RN, EMT-P The Secret Assessment: EMS and Human Trafficking Macara Trusty, BS, LP Chris Nations, EMT-P Issues in Mental Health: Case Studies It's a Sign! Critical Thinking in the Emergent Patient Rebecca Valentine, B.S., Paramedic, I/C, NCEE The Holy Grail: Financial Sustainability for MIH/CP Programs Matt Zavadsky, MS-HSA, EMT Air Medical Track Co-sponsored by the Texas Association of Air Medical Services From Pancuronium to Ketamine-The Evolution of Pediatric Pain Management and Sedation Jeremy Thomassan, FP-C, NRP Ultrasound Guidance to Pumps, Pipes, and Fluid Erik Rubach, RN, CFRN, EMT-P Localizing Your STEMI: How to Diagnose the Culprit Lesion Using 12-Lead ECG Bryan Winchell, RN, EMT-P Air Force Patient Movement: An Overview and the Impact of Aeromedical Evacuation in the Military Lt. Jasmine Davis, BSN, RN Welcome to the Sepsis Jungle Vicente Martinez, BSN, RN, EMT-LP Medical Director Track (more lectures coming) Co-sponsored by Texas College of Emergency Physicians Ten Papers That Changed Our Practice in 2017 Jeffrey Jarvis, MD, EMT-P Taylor Ratcliff, MD, FF, LP
Emergency Management Track (more lectures coming)
Co-sponsored by Texas Division of Emergency Management FirstNet and the Texas Public Safety Broadband Network: Executive Update for EMS Todd Early Brent Williams Deployment Basics Elizabeth Cuevas, PhD, LP James Kelley Danielle Davis Workshops Bleeding Control: Making a Difference William Justice, NRP, TEMS-I, et al
AUTISM: Always Unique/Totally Interesting/Sometimes Mysterious Tami Kayea, LP, MSML Pam Owens Stethoscopy for Dummies: Heart Tones Stethoscopy for Dummies Bob Page, M.Ed, CCP, NCEE Just Another Day at Work: PTSD & Suicide in First Responders Karen Yates, BSN, CEN, LP Cyndi Kidd, DNP, APRN David Holland, FF/EMT-P