Ultrasound Guidance for Hospital Procedures
(April 26, 2:30pm-5:30pm)
As recommended by national safety guidelines and medical societies, learn to use bedside ultrasound to guide invasive procedures and make them safer and easier. This optional workshop will feature a one hour didactic lecture followed by a hands-on session with phantoms. This workshop will include central venous access, peripheral venous lines, paracentesis, thoracentesis, pericardiocentesis, bladder aspiration and foreign body detection.
Register early as class size will be limited to maximize hands-on exposure.

Course Directors:
Tom Mailhot MD and Phil Perera MD

Electrocardiography of ACS: The Classic, Confusing, and Confounding Patterns. (New for 2012)
(April 26, 2:30pm-5:30pm)
The ability to interpret the electrocardiogram is a life-saving skill, but residency training in emergency medicine or the primary care specialties only teaches the basics. Through a series of multiple case-presentations, the speaker will teach the audience about cardiac ischemia recognition as well as common mimics and confounders of ischemia. He will teach an assortment of ECG pearls that will elevate the audience's ability to interpret ECGs to the a significantly higher level, and he will also teach some of the common pitfalls that can lead to disastrous outcomes. Whether members of the audience are new residency graduates or seasoned clinicians, they are going to learn new and useful information that will truly make a difference in patient care and will save lives!

Course Director:
Amal Mattu, MD

The "Crashing Brain": A CNS update.(New for 2012) (April 26, 2:30pm-5:30pm)

Brain preservation is the ultimate goal of all neurologic emergencies and significant therapeutic progress has been made over the last decade. The focus of this session will be on conditions that threaten brain function and viability and explore conventional and novel approaches to diagnosis and treatment. This session will use case- based scenarios that will cover primary neurologic pathologies such as ischemic stroke, brain hemorrhage, seizures and CNS infection. Brain protective strategies when managing conditions such as cardiac arrest and hypertensive urgencies will also be reviewed. Finally, the session will also cover a number of conditions which require specialized therapies such as environmental exposure and CO poisoning, HIV illness and malignancies.

Course Director:
Sarah Stahmer,MD

Tips and Tricks in the ED(New for 2012)
(April 27, 2:30pm-5:30pm)

You can't learn everything in Emergency Medicine from textbooks and journals. So much comes from experience. There are often slight improvements to the standards of practice, which make the processes easier, faster, or less painful. In this entertaining and informative session, Dr. Michelle Lin will review various tips and tricks which can improve your work efficiency and success rate in variety of procedures.

Course Director:
Michelle Lin, MD

Life Saving Procedures: A Hands-On Workshop
Procedure Lab with Dr. Jim Roberts. He wrote the book on procedures. Now get to learn from the master! Jim Roberts, MD will be available in the lab to answer your questions and offer great tips. (April 27, 2:30pm-5:30pm)
Learn life-saving procedures from an experienced team of emergency physicians and trauma surgeons. This hands-on lab will make heavy use of multimedia and trauma simulators. Procedures to be covered include: open and closed cricothyrotomy, chest tube insertion and diagnostic peritoneal lavage. Resuscitative thoracotomy will be reviewed in a video-based format.
Class size will be limited so register early.
Get a FREE Emergency Procedures computer DVD with registration!

Course Director:
Sujal Mandavia, MD, FRCP(C)

Advanced Pediatric Procedures Lab
(April 16, 2:30pm-5:30pm)

Want to learn critical techniques for pediatric resuscitation? Conducted by the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division at Loma Linda Medical Center, the Advanced Pediatric Procedures lab has received rave reviews. This special session consists of stations designed for learners to review and practice life saving techniques used in the treatment of critically ill and injured children. The Advanced Pediatric Procedures Lab will provide hands-on opportunity and review of such topics as peripheral and central line insertion, intraosseous and umbilical line insertion, needle cricothyrotomy, jet ventilation, LMA intubation, and standard endotracheal intubation. There will also be areas for case discussion on pediatric trauma and rapid sequence intubation in children. Finally to integrate these critical techniques, learners can participate in mock codes run on a high-fidelity infant simulator.
Enrollment is very limited so register early to ensure your place in this limited enrollment high impact course.

Course Director: Ilene Claudius, MD