2005 EMS STATE OF THE SCIENCE:
Gathering of Eagles VII
Conference Schedule

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(Schedule subject to change)

 

Friday Morning, February 18, 2005

7:30-8:00am Registration and VIP Reception
8:15-8:30am Welcome and Course Overview and New Directions
           Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH, Course Director
8:30-8:50am Comments from the Eagles Nest: the Conclave Take Flight
          Special Guest Speaker Remarks
8:50-9:00am Existential Theme Park Map: Why Are We All Here?
          Corey M. Slovis, MD (Nashville)
9:00-9:15am We’re From the Government & Here to Help: Evolving FBI Interface with Local EMS
          William P. Fabbri, MD (Medical Officer, FBI Headquarters)
9:20-9:35am Cops and Docs: Medical Direction in Law Enforcement
          Nelson Tang, MD (Medical Director, U.S. Secret Service)
9:40-9:55am The 3 R’s of Unhygienic Ordinance: Reaction, Response and Recovery from Dirty Bombs
          Ruth McBurney MS, (President Elect of Health Physics Society), Manager of
          Radiation Safety Licensing Branch, Texas Department of State Health Services.
10:00-10:15am TAKE A BREAK!! (15 minutes)
10:15-10:45am The Eagles Wing It: Lightning Rounds # 1
          U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors & Federal Agency
          Medical Directors Talk "Dirty" (Bombs)
10:45-11:05am Live From Garland, Texas: the ABC’s of the ABC Testbed
          Raymond L. Fowler, MD (Dallas)
11:10-11:40am Special Operator: the Life and Times of a Tactical EMS Doctor:
          Special Guest Speaker
11:45-11:55am Presentation of the Annual Paul E. Pepe Excellence in EMS Award
          Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH and Friends
12 noon-12:50pm

LUNCH WITH THE BUNCH: Participants Break Bread with Eagles


Friday Afternoon, February 18, 2005

President's Corner

1:00-1:15pm From EMT to National ACEP President: The Right of Passage
          Robert E. Suter, DO (President, ACEP)

Mini-Symposium on the EMS Drug Box

1:20-1:35pm DANAMI, CAPTIM 2, TIMI 19: Busting the Clot Plot
          Corey M. Slovis, MD (Nashville)
1:40-1:55pm The Cosmopolitan Lysis Crisis: Urban Prehospital Thrombolytics
          David E. Persse, MD (Houston)
2:00-2:15pm Your Basic Agonist: Albuterol in Basic Life Support
          Neal Richmond, MD (Louisville)
2:20pm-2:35pm Priability Liability: Keeping the Drug Box Safe
          John Griswell, MD (Fort Worth)
2:40-3:05pm The Eagles Wing It: Lightning Rounds # 2
          U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors
3:05-3:20pm TAKE A BREAK !! (15 minutes)

Mini-Symposium on Special EMS Challenges

3:20-3:35pm Aversion to Diversions: Re-Thinking Hospital By-Pass Requests
          Edward M. Racht, MD (Austin)
3:40-3:55pm Sobering Results: A Follow-up on Moving Public Inebriates Out of the EMS System
          S. Marshal Isaacs, MD ( San Francisco)
4:00-4:15pm Utilization Review: Evaluating Over-Utilization of the EMS System
          Eric Ossman, MD (Atlanta)
4:20-4:35pm Planning for the Long Haul: Paramedic Retention, Longevity and Productivity
          C. Crawford Mechem, MD (Philadelphia)
4:40-4:55pm Bailing-Out Perps: Medical Consequences of Law Enforcement Devices
          Kathleen S. Schrank (Miami)
5:00-5:15pm Dodging Bullets on Broadway: Issues in Non-Transport:
          Bradley Kaufman, MD (New York)
5:20pm-5:45pm The Eagles Wing It: Lightning Rounds # 3
          U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors
5:45-6:00pm “TGIF Wrap-Up”
6:00pm OVERNITE RECESS and Eagles Photo-Op

Saturday Morning, February 19, 2005

7:45-8:15am Registration

Mini-Symposium on Cardiac Arrest

8:15-8:30am Special Welcomes, Housekeeping Items and Introductions to the “ROC”:National Institutes of Health (NIH) Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium
          Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH (NIH ROC Co-Investigator) &
          Joseph P. Ornato, MD (NIH ROC Executive Committee)
8:30-8:45am A Salty Solution: Randomized Clinical Trials of Hypertonic Saline
          Joseph P. Minei, MD (NIH ROC Trauma Investigator)
8:50-9:05am An Inspirational Study: Randomized Clinical Trials of the ITD
          Ronald G. Pirrallo, MD (Milwaukee)
9:10-9:25am Panel on the ROC and ROLE of EMS Panel
          Joseph P. Ornato, MD (Moderator)
9:30-9:45am Jumpin’ Jack Flash: It’s a Gasp !
          Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH (Dallas)
9:50-10:05am We Want To Pump You Up: Compressions-Only in Arizona
          Terence Valenzuela, MD (Tucson)
10:10-10:25am TAKE A BREAK !! (15 minutes)
10:25-10:40am The Geezer-Squeezer - East Side Story: Auto-Pulsing in Virginia
          Joseph P. Ornato, MD (Richmond)
10:45-11:00am The Geezer-Squeezer - West Side Story: Auto-Pulsing by the Bay
          S. Marshal Isaacs, MD (San Francisco)
11:05-11:15am Presentation of the Annual Michael K. Copass, MD Eagles Award
          Friends of Michael Keys Copass
11:15-11:40am The Eagles Wing It: Lightning Rounds # 4
          U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors
11:40-1:15 pm LUNCH WITH THE BUNCH: Breaking Bread with the Eagles

Saturday Afternoon, February 19, 2005

1:30-1:45pm The Last Word: A Special Eagles Salute to One of Their Own
          S. Marshal Isaacs, MD and Friends

President's Corner  - Round Two

1:50-2:05pm Things You’re Not Supposed Know Yet: Progress and Process of The New ACLS Guidelines
          Robert E. O’Connor, MD (President, NAEMSP)

Mini-Symposium on Evolving Clinical Concepts

2:10 –2:25pm Things You Are Supposed to Know Yet: The New National Academies of Emergency Dispatch Guidelines on Dispatch CPR
          Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH (for Dr. Jeff Clawson & NAED)
2:30-2:45pm Tracheal Debate; Whether to Intubate: EMS Airway Management:
          Marc Eckstein, MD (Los Angeles)
2:50-3:05pm Special K Considerations: Appreciating Hyperkalemia in EMS Practice
          Peter Moyer, MD (Boston)
3:10-3:25pm Good to the Bone: A New Approach to Intra-osseous Infusion
          Jullette M. Saussy, MD (New Orleans)
3:30-3:45pm TAKE A BREAK!! (15 minutes)
3:45-4:10pm The Eagles Wing It: Lightning Rounds # 5
          U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors

Mini Symposium on Evolving Roles of the EMS Medical Director

4:10-4:25pm Evolving Roles of the EMS Medical Director
          David E. Persse, MD (Houston)
4:30-4:45pm The Doctor is "In": The Louisville Experience
          Neal Richmond, MD (Louisville)
4:50-5:05pm High-Speed EMS: Medical Direction for High-Velocity Sports
          Michael L. Olinger, MD (Indianapolis)
5:05-5:25pm Panel on Evolving Roles for the EMS Physician
          Faculty, Colleagues and Friends
5:25-6:00 pm The Last Stand – Wrap up with the Eagles Including a Report from the 2005 Eagle Creek Conference
          U.S. Metropolitan Municipalities EMS Medical Directors
6:00pm ADJOURNMENT

 

SEE YOU AT EAGLES VIII -- February 2006 !!

 

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