What Am I Seeing Here? Ultrasound Deployment in the Prehospital Setting
It has been shown in previous studies that it is possible for paramedics to be trained in the use of ultrasound in the prehospital setting. There are variable applications for ultrasound in the prehospital setting, which include abdominal FAST examination as well as cardiac evaluation in cardiac arrest. It is not clear from literature what is the most useful application for patients, nor the best deployment strategy for prehospital providers. We aim to describe our experience in ultrasound deployment, describe our education process and guideline development, our quality review process, and the variable strategies our paramedic services have utilized in its rollout.
Our medical direction team serves multiple EMS services in the St. Paul, Minnesota and surrounding communities. We have relatively short transport times to a range of hospitals from critical access hospitals to tertiary care centers. In the past year we have successfully deployed the use of ultrasound for cardiac arrest as well as trauma with cardiac and lung ultrasounds. We have a variety of services who have uniquely incorporated its use into their operations and we seek to describe our experience from inception to active clinical care.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will be able to list successful components to a prehospital provider focused initial ultrasound education training program.
Upon completion, participant will be able to demonstrate understanding of the components required for successful deployment of ultrasound in the prehospital setting.
Upon completion, participant will be able to list strategies to maintain competency in ultrasound use in the prehospital setting as well as list different methods of successful implementation.
Our medical direction team serves multiple EMS services in the St. Paul, Minnesota and surrounding communities. We have relatively short transport times to a range of hospitals from critical access hospitals to tertiary care centers. In the past year we have successfully deployed the use of ultrasound for cardiac arrest as well as trauma with cardiac and lung ultrasounds. We have a variety of services who have uniquely incorporated its use into their operations and we seek to describe our experience from inception to active clinical care.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will be able to list successful components to a prehospital provider focused initial ultrasound education training program.
Upon completion, participant will be able to demonstrate understanding of the components required for successful deployment of ultrasound in the prehospital setting.
Upon completion, participant will be able to list strategies to maintain competency in ultrasound use in the prehospital setting as well as list different methods of successful implementation.
Lighthouse Leadership: A Beacon for the Next Generation of EMS Leaders
The NAEMT Lighthouse Leadership Program was built in the vision of Jim Page to create a program to help develop the EMS leaders of tomorrow. Mr. Page is considered the founding father of modern EMS in the United States and was an influential force in EMS leadership and advocacy (Bass, 2005). Through mentoring, classroom discussions and networking with peers and industry leaders, the program looks to create personal and professional growth in its participants. In this panel discussion we will further discuss the NAEMT Lighthouse Leadership Program and its foundations from the perspective of members of the first cohort. We will also discuss the importance of leadership training, networking and mentorship as ways to improve personal and professional growth.
Attendees will gain knowledge of what a leadership program is, specifically the Lighthouse Leadership Program, and use that information to further their own personal and professional development. Attendees will also gain insight into what leadership, mentorship and networking are, the importance of each, and how they can improve not only the individual but their entire agency.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to understand the tenants of a leadership program and the roots of the Lighthouse Leadership Program.
Upon completion, participants will be able to display an understanding of leadership, mentorship, and personal vision statements.
Attendees will gain knowledge of what a leadership program is, specifically the Lighthouse Leadership Program, and use that information to further their own personal and professional development. Attendees will also gain insight into what leadership, mentorship and networking are, the importance of each, and how they can improve not only the individual but their entire agency.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to understand the tenants of a leadership program and the roots of the Lighthouse Leadership Program.
Upon completion, participants will be able to display an understanding of leadership, mentorship, and personal vision statements.
The 3 Keys to Being Fit for Duty: Mindfulness, Nutrition and Physical Mobility
To educate why mindfulness (mental health), nutritional awareness, and physical mobility are important for first responders. Special emphasis on how these three areas are the foundation for personal and professional success. Recipients of this education will learn how to prevent work-related mental stress and fatigue, to lessen the incidence of depression, substance abuse, and bodily injury while promoting a culture of wellness.
Discuss complexities of mindset
Learn why we should Enhance nutrition for optimal lifestyle.
Emphasize the importance of mobility to decrease injury.
Learning Objectives:
Will be able to combat mental stress caused by job related stress. To learn how to identify and respond to unhealthy coping mechanisms in order to regain mental health.
recognize how gut and brain and connected. Will have a better understanding of why and how to change nutrition to gain maximum health and mental benefits.
Will gain different perspective as to how to maintain physical mobility and agility in order to work pain free and prevent job related injuries.
Discuss complexities of mindset
Learn why we should Enhance nutrition for optimal lifestyle.
Emphasize the importance of mobility to decrease injury.
Learning Objectives:
Will be able to combat mental stress caused by job related stress. To learn how to identify and respond to unhealthy coping mechanisms in order to regain mental health.
recognize how gut and brain and connected. Will have a better understanding of why and how to change nutrition to gain maximum health and mental benefits.
Will gain different perspective as to how to maintain physical mobility and agility in order to work pain free and prevent job related injuries.
Evidenced-based Guidelines Wallop National Registry Examinations and Continued Competency
The presentation will discuss the effort that is being conducted by the Prehospital Consortium Group (NAEMSP) and NREMT regarding the use of Evidence Based Guidelines when constructing examinations and continued competency requirements. The lesson will conclude with information related to foreseen project industry impacts.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, the participants will be able to define evidence-based guidelines.
Upon completion, the participants will be able to describe eight types of clinical evidence, determine their purpose, and quality.
Upon completion, the participant will understand how the collaboration between NREMT and the NAEMSP PGC Consortium will nationally impact the future of competency examinations and continued competency in EMS.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, the participants will be able to define evidence-based guidelines.
Upon completion, the participants will be able to describe eight types of clinical evidence, determine their purpose, and quality.
Upon completion, the participant will understand how the collaboration between NREMT and the NAEMSP PGC Consortium will nationally impact the future of competency examinations and continued competency in EMS.
Stigma & Storytelling: Addressing Mental Health Challenges with Narrative Intervention
This workshop will discuss the challenges and barriers to addressing mental health and psychosocial well-being in healthcare workers and provide evidence-based practices and accessible solutions for attendees to implement in their own lives and in their organizations. Using our ability as humans to create, tell, and listen to stories, attendees will learn about the science behind narrative medicine, and how narratives can address mental health challenges and improve well-being.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify the applicability and practicality of narrative interventions designed to improve psychosocial and organizational well-being.
Upon completion, participants will be able to proficiently engage in narrative interventions (story creation, storytelling, story listening/witnessing) to enhance the sensemaking of difficulty and connection to others.
Upon completion, participants will be able to implement narrative interventions in their department's/organization's mental health resources and policy/procedures.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify the applicability and practicality of narrative interventions designed to improve psychosocial and organizational well-being.
Upon completion, participants will be able to proficiently engage in narrative interventions (story creation, storytelling, story listening/witnessing) to enhance the sensemaking of difficulty and connection to others.
Upon completion, participants will be able to implement narrative interventions in their department's/organization's mental health resources and policy/procedures.
Advanced Resuscitative Care: Bridge that is needed or one that is too far?
Despite years of innovation in trauma care, a significant portion of patients (especially those suffering torso hemorrhage) suffer potentially preventable prehospital death. Our trauma systems are currently designed to deliver shocked trauma patients to the hospital beyond the time of salvage. This talk reviews the current problem, and potential solutions to implement change by logistically bringing advanced interventions closer to the point of injury
Learning Objectives:
understand the current limitations of existing trauma systems in relation to potentially preventable mortality from trauma hemorrhage
identify strategies of resuscitation that can be brought closer to point of injury
review systems-level considerations in operationalizing changes in their prehospital trauma response
Learning Objectives:
understand the current limitations of existing trauma systems in relation to potentially preventable mortality from trauma hemorrhage
identify strategies of resuscitation that can be brought closer to point of injury
review systems-level considerations in operationalizing changes in their prehospital trauma response
Community Paramedicine: An Approach to People's Social Determinants of Health vs. the Traditional Clinical Approach
Healthcare disparities exist in all genders, ages, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Treating patients like checklists has created a systemic loss of respect for healthcare professionals. Community paramedicine programs create a unique opportunity to approach community medicine by focusing on social determinants of health, that impact a patient's overall well-being and ability to self-navigate their personal goal, as well as healthcare goals, that are important to them. Giving a patient the ability to feel in control of their lives in critical moments, is a new gift we can deliver to our communities.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to define social determinants of health and give examples.
Upon completion, participants will be able to discuss existing health disparities in the United States, and further discuss ways to help patients and communities overcome them.
Upon completion, the participant will be able to evaluate the pros and cons of traditional clinical healthcare approaches and those of social determinants of health.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to define social determinants of health and give examples.
Upon completion, participants will be able to discuss existing health disparities in the United States, and further discuss ways to help patients and communities overcome them.
Upon completion, the participant will be able to evaluate the pros and cons of traditional clinical healthcare approaches and those of social determinants of health.
The Science of Visibility
When working on a patient, your visibility to others around the scene is the least of your concern. Making sure you're wearing the right garments to give you the best visibility from traffic is a decision to be made long before the incident. This presentation gives you knowledge on the science of how we see things and why it is so important. By the end you will not see that safety or enhanced visibility garment in the same way at work and you will think twice about your visibility at home when you are out for that run or taking your dog for a walk. Visibility matters...night and day.
Learning Objectives:
Have a clear understanding of 'biomotion' and how it can help make you more visible.
Understand why both fluorescent color and retroreflective materials are needed to be seen 24 hours a day.
Know the definition of foveal vision and also 1 strength and weakness of it.
Learning Objectives:
Have a clear understanding of 'biomotion' and how it can help make you more visible.
Understand why both fluorescent color and retroreflective materials are needed to be seen 24 hours a day.
Know the definition of foveal vision and also 1 strength and weakness of it.
The Psychology of Organizational Change
Change management is a notoriously stubborn problem that plagues both large and small scale institutions alike, and has been an organizational hurdle for quite some time. Understanding fundamental nuances in the psychology behind why individuals, teams, and organizations resist change is of paramount importance in creating effective paradigm shifts. This presentation is designed to allow low, mid, and high-level managers a historical perspective on change management and will offer some insight tools and strategies to help make change not only welcome, but will also help to optimize effectiveness in moving the needle within any organization.
Learning Objectives:
List three reasons why people resist change, even when there is significant personal upside
Describe why certain leaders are more effective at executing organizational change than others
Explain why the human condition often resists change that is generally understood will benefit the organization.
Learning Objectives:
List three reasons why people resist change, even when there is significant personal upside
Describe why certain leaders are more effective at executing organizational change than others
Explain why the human condition often resists change that is generally understood will benefit the organization.
What About “High Performance Ventilation”? What Are the Key Components of the Critical Companion to Quality CPR?
In this state-of-the-future session, the speaker, a renowned resuscitation-specialist, pulmonary-physiologist and cardiac arrest management pioneer, will:
• Review normal cardiopulmonary physiology, the differences between oxygenation and ventilation, and why that distinction becomes very important during resuscitation efforts -- and especially during CPR
• Provide a strategy to optimize and best ensure oxygenation, removal of CO2, and enhance trans-pulmonary blood flow --- without compromising cardiac output (and blood flow across the lungs) during CPR --- and do so in a most efficient/effective manner.
• Discuss the actual process of delivering breaths in terms of how much lung inflation should be provided, the timing of delivery, how fast to deliver that inflation and, quite importantly, how to quickly end the delivery and hasten expiration -- as well as when to adjust respiratory rates as circulation improves.
• Reinforce that, to effect “quality CPR”, one must also manage the various critical elements and components of “High-Performance Ventilation” during CPR (using physiological-sounder recommendations).
• Emphasize conditions that exacerbate detrimental effects of positive-pressure ventilation and how to manage them
• Why we all need to adopt this lifesaving approach now to avoid bad outcomes -- with good examples of how this has worked when implemented!
Learning Objectives:
Describe normal cardio-pulmonary physiology and heart-lung-circulatory interactions and, most importantly, the physiological differences between pulmonary-oxygenation and ventilation (removal of CO2) -- and why those distinctions becomes critical during resuscitation efforts
Detail the actual process of delivering breaths: the timing and degree of lung inflation, the rate of delivery and expulsion of positive-pressure breaths and how/when o adjust respiratory rates.
Provide examples of how adopting these techniques have saved lives, particularly in out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest and recommend why we all can —and should -- Implement this lifesaving approach now.
• Review normal cardiopulmonary physiology, the differences between oxygenation and ventilation, and why that distinction becomes very important during resuscitation efforts -- and especially during CPR
• Provide a strategy to optimize and best ensure oxygenation, removal of CO2, and enhance trans-pulmonary blood flow --- without compromising cardiac output (and blood flow across the lungs) during CPR --- and do so in a most efficient/effective manner.
• Discuss the actual process of delivering breaths in terms of how much lung inflation should be provided, the timing of delivery, how fast to deliver that inflation and, quite importantly, how to quickly end the delivery and hasten expiration -- as well as when to adjust respiratory rates as circulation improves.
• Reinforce that, to effect “quality CPR”, one must also manage the various critical elements and components of “High-Performance Ventilation” during CPR (using physiological-sounder recommendations).
• Emphasize conditions that exacerbate detrimental effects of positive-pressure ventilation and how to manage them
• Why we all need to adopt this lifesaving approach now to avoid bad outcomes -- with good examples of how this has worked when implemented!
Learning Objectives:
Describe normal cardio-pulmonary physiology and heart-lung-circulatory interactions and, most importantly, the physiological differences between pulmonary-oxygenation and ventilation (removal of CO2) -- and why those distinctions becomes critical during resuscitation efforts
Detail the actual process of delivering breaths: the timing and degree of lung inflation, the rate of delivery and expulsion of positive-pressure breaths and how/when o adjust respiratory rates.
Provide examples of how adopting these techniques have saved lives, particularly in out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest and recommend why we all can —and should -- Implement this lifesaving approach now.
Lets talk dogs, & mental health
There is no mystery why dogs are a best friend. But there is so much more to gain from this relationship. Methodist Healthcare in San Antonio, Texas endeavored in an innovated program that is pawsitively changing the way EMS is supported. Chanel, Fresca, and Lady are three of the first Emergency Services Facility Dogs specially trained by Service Dogs, Inc. to support first responders and hospital staff across South Central Texas. Embarking upon this journey in 2019, these dogs & their handlers provide respite to first responders and hospital staff while on shift, lowering stress, anxiety, and bringing crews back into balance before the next call.
There is more to it than wagging tails and snoot-boops. Chanel, Fresca, and Lady give unconditional permission to talk about mental health and promote resilience and healthy work-life balance tips to those they come in contact with each day. We will discuss the impact of these encounters, what it has meant for local Fire and EMS providers, as well as the impact the team has had when responding to major events that have shaken communities and emotionally drained the health care professionals that responded.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to understand the different categories of working dogs.
Upon completion, participants will be able to see how dogs are used day to day and in major incidents.
Upon completion, participants will be able to see how Emergency Services Facility Dogs fit into mental health and resiliency programs for first responders.
There is more to it than wagging tails and snoot-boops. Chanel, Fresca, and Lady give unconditional permission to talk about mental health and promote resilience and healthy work-life balance tips to those they come in contact with each day. We will discuss the impact of these encounters, what it has meant for local Fire and EMS providers, as well as the impact the team has had when responding to major events that have shaken communities and emotionally drained the health care professionals that responded.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to understand the different categories of working dogs.
Upon completion, participants will be able to see how dogs are used day to day and in major incidents.
Upon completion, participants will be able to see how Emergency Services Facility Dogs fit into mental health and resiliency programs for first responders.
Patient Satisfaction Surveys: A Large EMS System Experience in Engaging with Patients About Their Care
CEMS randomly solicits feedback from 35% of the patients who are treated and transported by our service each month. Beginning in July 2020, CEMS also sends an electronic survey to patients that provide a mobile phone number to the EMS crews. With the results of this survey, we’re able to evaluate our service and compare our agency to others nationwide.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion the participants will use actionable information, design, methodology and valid data in their EMS agency.
Upon completion the EMS clinicians and leaders will identify the best practices and solutions for relevance to the EMS community.
Upon completing the participants will provide feedback on the value of real-time EMA Patient Survey results.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion the participants will use actionable information, design, methodology and valid data in their EMS agency.
Upon completion the EMS clinicians and leaders will identify the best practices and solutions for relevance to the EMS community.
Upon completing the participants will provide feedback on the value of real-time EMA Patient Survey results.
EMS Education Rookie: The Transition From Provider to Instructor
This interactive and informative session will discuss the transition from provider to educator including field preceptor, skills training, and course instruction. Emphasis will be placed on both in person and online instruction. The presentation will review the background and history of EMS education, the importance of having a passion for education, the specific methods and behaviors essential in preparing to be an educator, a discussion of the different opportunities and roles in EMS education, and strategies to transition from provider roles to education roles. The presenters will provide attendees with resources and recommendations for preparing to become or advance in their role as an EMS educator.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the background and history of EMS education
Value the importance that the role an individuals’ passion for EMS and education plays in being an effective educator
Discover the specific methods and behaviors that are essential for becoming effective educators
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the background and history of EMS education
Value the importance that the role an individuals’ passion for EMS and education plays in being an effective educator
Discover the specific methods and behaviors that are essential for becoming effective educators
Trust-Centric Teamwork
Working together has the potential to exponentially increase our effectiveness as a team. How do we get there? In this lecture, we will identify some simple and practical ways to improve the culture of our workplaces by using a trust-centric model. The acronym PATCH will help attendees remember the concepts: Perfect (the verb, not the adjective: make those around you better), Activate (be a leader and initiate something positive, be the first to serve), Trust (the center of teamwork and the center of the word “patch”), Commit (actions do not depend on circumstances, you are bound to and have pledged to a course - devotion), Help (not just helping others but also asking for help – this takes humility and authenticity).
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will be able to identify enemies of teamwork in the current culture and turn them into opportunities for relationship building.
Upon completion, participant will be able to list clear recommendations and guidance to optimize teamwork under the spirit of trust.
Upon completion, participant will be able to outline simple and practical actions that can be applied today to improve the culture of teamwork.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will be able to identify enemies of teamwork in the current culture and turn them into opportunities for relationship building.
Upon completion, participant will be able to list clear recommendations and guidance to optimize teamwork under the spirit of trust.
Upon completion, participant will be able to outline simple and practical actions that can be applied today to improve the culture of teamwork.
A Better Way at the End of the Day: Integrating MIH into daily operations
As services struggle with increased calls volumes, being short staffed, and increased offload times in the ED, finding applicable solutions is paramount. Using lessons learned from research, application, and implementation, we will explore ways MIH can be integrated to improve quality, patient experience, employee satisfaction, and retention. Community paramedicine, combined with ET3 and telemedicine might be that solution. We recognized that we had ability to help. By freeing up ambulances and reducing transports, while improving care for patients. It can also be more cost effective for all involved, while addressing specific patient needs using a patient-centered approach to emergency response by delivering the right care at the right time in the right place.
Learning Objectives:
describe the value based care that comes with MIH integration.
list the reasons that these kinds of changes and ideas can be regarded as an advancement for Paramedicine in the US.
define ways that pre-hospital care has changed post pandemic and list ways to continue the evolution of pre-hospital care.
Learning Objectives:
describe the value based care that comes with MIH integration.
list the reasons that these kinds of changes and ideas can be regarded as an advancement for Paramedicine in the US.
define ways that pre-hospital care has changed post pandemic and list ways to continue the evolution of pre-hospital care.
Ambulance Marketplace 2023
This program is intended to give guidance to those with ambulance purchasing power: attendees will be treated to expert guidance on real-life implementations and the latest in best practices for standards and designs. Then, attendees will visit ambulance manufacturers on the exhibit hall floor for a private, hands-on experience with their products.
Change Your Story, Change Your Life
Have you ever found yourself at place in life that is no longer fulfilling? What do you do when things look bleak despite your best efforts? In the summer of 2022, Matt found himself in a dark place. To outsiders, he looked successful, but inside he was struggling with negative feelings and emotions. After listening to months of toxic news media, he was convinced that the world was about to experience food shortages, economic collapse and possibly even World War III. He had adopted a prepper’s mentality and had been storing food and supplies. His thoughts and conversations dwelled on doomsday survival situations.
On the advice of his wife, Matt started focusing on the positive things of life. He created a vision board, started doing affirmations, and setting goals—big goals. As a result of this, Matt’s life dramatically improved within 30 days. Since then, goals that previously seemed impossible have been coming true at an alarming rate. This speech is designed to help you if you’ve been wondering “What’s next for my life?” or “Is THIS all there is?”
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will have knowledge of how to increase their value to their department by setting and achieving goals
Upon completion, participant will have knowledge that they can create the results that they want in their lives
Upon completion, participant will understand how to take 100% responsibility for their life
On the advice of his wife, Matt started focusing on the positive things of life. He created a vision board, started doing affirmations, and setting goals—big goals. As a result of this, Matt’s life dramatically improved within 30 days. Since then, goals that previously seemed impossible have been coming true at an alarming rate. This speech is designed to help you if you’ve been wondering “What’s next for my life?” or “Is THIS all there is?”
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participant will have knowledge of how to increase their value to their department by setting and achieving goals
Upon completion, participant will have knowledge that they can create the results that they want in their lives
Upon completion, participant will understand how to take 100% responsibility for their life
Serious Gaming for Your Whole Brain
Game-based learning goes far beyond the use of VR and AR! William Belk and Ian Jones of Air Methods will explore serious games that can be created with any budget and the education theories that support their use. Participants will learn to create educational experiences for clinicians and students using rules and methods similar to popular games that they are already familiar with. Learners will be given the opportunity to play a game that is currently being used to train more than 1500 flight nurses and paramedics through the United States.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, the participant will be able to describe educational theories which support the use of Serious Games.
Upon completion, participants will be able to conduct low cost ways to develop educational games.
Upon completion, participants will be able to create and educational activity using existing game mechanics.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, the participant will be able to describe educational theories which support the use of Serious Games.
Upon completion, participants will be able to conduct low cost ways to develop educational games.
Upon completion, participants will be able to create and educational activity using existing game mechanics.
More Bang for the Buck: moving past traditional continuing education for a comprehensive local continued competency program
Emergency medical services is commonly asked to do more with less. Advanced approaches to local credentialling can remove redundances to achieve better results with less time spent on continuing education and skills testing. A robust local credentialing program can meet standards for recertification, licensure, specialty certifications, and local needs while reducing time spent for traditional continuing education. Simple changes can eliminate the need for refresher courses and fully integrate credentialing at multiple levels with regulatory requirements. Traditional continuing education can be inefficient - newer strategies for low dose high frequency training and integration with operational tasks can dramatically reduce total time and cost commitment to provide high quality evidence of continued competency for EMS providers while improving quality and engagement.
This session will explore novel local approaches that can simultaneously address national, state and local requirements with an integrated program. Participants will learn how to remove artificial distinctions between training and operational tasks within emergency medical services, focusing on the single goal of preparedness for the patient's emergency. Tools such as operational needs analysis, assessment tools, and low dose high frequency approaches will align activities and get more bang for the buck to verify continued competency.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the steps of an operational needs analysis to determine focus areas for an integrated continuing competency program that meets local, state and national requirements.
Describe the use of low dose high frequency approaches in the local EMS environment
Describe the use of assessment methodologies for local competency verification in ways that integrate with operational requirements - such as cardiac arrest reviews
This session will explore novel local approaches that can simultaneously address national, state and local requirements with an integrated program. Participants will learn how to remove artificial distinctions between training and operational tasks within emergency medical services, focusing on the single goal of preparedness for the patient's emergency. Tools such as operational needs analysis, assessment tools, and low dose high frequency approaches will align activities and get more bang for the buck to verify continued competency.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the steps of an operational needs analysis to determine focus areas for an integrated continuing competency program that meets local, state and national requirements.
Describe the use of low dose high frequency approaches in the local EMS environment
Describe the use of assessment methodologies for local competency verification in ways that integrate with operational requirements - such as cardiac arrest reviews
What's New in Community Based Cardiac Arrest Care? The Latest Research, Innovation & Technology Driving Improvement in SCA Outcomes.
Of the many clinical etiologies to which EMS regularly responds, Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is likely the most time sensitive emergency whose outcome can be dramatically impacted by early bystander intervention. The scientific community has long touted the importance of early high-quality CPR and defibrillation, but despite significant improvements in CPR awareness and AED placement, outcomes in the United States have remained largely unchanged. This session will review the latest community programs in and outside of the US designed to close the gap between SCA and the arrival of professional care. Among other examples, we’ll review learnings from Singapore’s MyResponder program. We’ll explore the latest improvements in AED technology and mobile applications designed to leverage crowdsourced response and review the latest studies touching on the key factors in establishing an effective community based SCA response model.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the key steps necessary to establishing a locally based SCA response model in their community.
Understand the most up to date research around crowdsourced AED/CPR programs in and outside the United States
Describe the most recent innovations in AED technology and community based SCA response models.
Learning Objectives:
Identify the key steps necessary to establishing a locally based SCA response model in their community.
Understand the most up to date research around crowdsourced AED/CPR programs in and outside the United States
Describe the most recent innovations in AED technology and community based SCA response models.