Pre-conference Workshops

Course description

1. To understand the principles of a chemical disasters and response
2. To understand the principles of a biological disasters and response
3. To understand the principles of a radiation disasters and response
4. To be able to classify blast injuries
5. To understand the principles of PPE requirements and decontamination

The participants will also undertake practical and interactive exercises in

• Surge management for healthcare facilities
• A chemical disaster case study
• A biological disaster case study
• A radiological disaster case study

“This course is a one-day introduction to aviation medicine and the management of in-flight medical emergencies for health professionals.”

Course description

The Onboard Medical Emergencies course is for all health professionals interested in the subject of aviation medicine or inflight emergencies.

Participants come from a wide range of medical backgrounds, including family and emergency physicians, occupational health, nursing, and professionals who work in the aeromedical/travel medicine domain.

This course consists of:

• Altitude physiology in the aviation environment
• Epidemiology of medical emergencies in flight
• Which passenger is "Fit to Fly"
• Medical equipment onboard aircraft: Emergency Medical Kit (EMK)
• Cabin crew—their roles and first aid training
• Medicolegal implications of helping onboard.
• Management of common emergencies in flight, including: CPR/ALS: where to do it?, emergency oxygen, considerations for COVID

“New Approaches to Interprofessional Telesimulation: Delivering Low-Resource, Engaging Simulation Sessions Online”

Course description

Simulation-based education has been widely used to teach both medical knowledge and teamwork skills. Physical distancing to accommodate efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 has limited the ability to conduct traditional “in-person” simulations on physical mannequins. As such, there has been a rapid pivot to telesimulation alternatives. While telesimulation allows for the delivery of simulation training to distant learners, it can be limited by high start-up and development costs, fidelity, learner engagement, and assessment of nontechnical and technical skills. We developed and implemented novel telesimulation programs at our institutions using the Virtual Resuscitation Room (VRR), an online solution that address some of these challenges which has been well-received by learners and facilitators. The VRR uses a shared Google Slide document to create a virtual environment where learners can collaborate in real-time to manage a virtual patient. In this workshop, we will introduce features of presentation and teleconferencing software that have allowed for the VRR to be a successful method for delivering interprofessional simulation education. Next, participants will be placed in small groups based on their self-identified level of training (e.g., “learner” vs “educator”). They will be given the opportunity to conduct and debrief a telesimulation with facilitator guidance. Educators will also discuss techniques that they can convert existing simulation scenarios into a virtual format using the VRR. Finally, everyone will discuss and share experiences, opportunities, challenges, and ideas for incorporating telesimulation at their institutions.

Workshop Objectives

After this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe techniques for incorporating communication and teamwork skills in telesimulation sessions.
• Leverage features of Google Slides and teleconferencing software to deliver interactive interprofessional telesimulations.
• Demonstrate running a tele-simulation using this method.

Workshop Target Audience

Clinicians and educators of all levels with interest in conducting telesimulation.

Format/Strategies

Our workshop includes various formats including discussion, Q&A, and “hands-on” time. Our workshop is designed to be presented in a virtual format. We plan to introduce and demonstrate the features of Google Slides and teleconferencing programs that our teams use to create our interprofessional simulations and take participants through an example telesimulation. Afterwards, there is dedicated time for participants to practice facilitating a tele-simulation with the assistance of a facilitator with a “ready to run” telesimulation case. We have also allotted time for discussion about ideas, challenges, and opportunities for development and implementation of telesimulation programs.

Virtual Sim Session- Participant Engagement

This session is designed for a virtual format and emphasizes ways to engage learners in telesimulation. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with both audio and video features of teleconferencing and use the real-time collaboration functions in teleconferencing software to actively engage while we are presenting. We are providing all participants the opportunity to run through a virtual simulation in small groups. Additionally, those in the Educator Track will have time to learn how to run a virtual simulation session using the VRR model.

Course Description:

One-day comprehensive and accredited virtual ECMO workshop organized by the International Conference of Emergency Medicine 2021

Target Audience: Healthcare providers including physicians, nurses, perfusionists and respiratory therapists who are actively involved in management of patients with severe respiratory and circulatory failure requiring ECMO support.

Objectives:

• Understand the concept of ECMO.
• Identify the components of the ECMO circuit.
• Verify the basic and advanced physiology of ECMO.
• To know the indications and contraindications of ECMO.
• To be familiar with troubleshooting problems of ECMO.
• To know how to monitor the patients on ECMO.
• To know how to perform safe transportation of ECMO patients.

Course Description:

How do you run a modern, busy emergency department? What does the director of the emergency department need to do? What are the most important, crucial elements of successful ED administration and management that you simply NEED TO KNOW?

One of the most challenging skills in emergency medicine is emergency department administration and management. This half-day pre-conference course will focus on basic and advanced topics in EM administration, management, ED staffing, patient safety and quality, patient flow and ED through-put, and ED design and efficiency.

Through a series of interactive lectures, case presentations and audience-participation scenarios, this course will teach the participants how to direct the emergency department, how to staff your busy ED, how to measure and improve quality and patient safety, how to design and improve your ED operations, and how to be the most effective ED director and manager possible.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for local, regional, national, and international physicians, residents, and fellows, engaged in the practice of emergency and internal medicine, EMS, anesthesiology, and surgery who are seeking the most current information in the field.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

1. List basic emergency medicine and emergency department administration techniques, styles and resources to be used in their emergency medicine practices and settings.
2. Define quality and performance in emergency medicine, measure quality and performance, and improve emergency medicine quality and performance for their practices and settings.
3. Identify patient safety in emergency medicine, measure and quantify patient safety, and improve patient safety in their practices and settings.
4. Analyze emergency department operations and design techniques, and implement and utilize operational elements in their own emergency medicine practices and settings.

Objectives:

• Principles and physiology of mechanical ventilation
• When to intubate a patient.
• Non-Invasive Ventilation.
• Ventilating patients in special circumstances (including COVID)
• Troubleshooting the ventilator

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