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Enhance your EMS Today|The JEMS Conference experience - add a breakfast roundtable to your registration!
Each roundtable focuses on an industry hot topic and provides attendees the opportunity to discuss challenges and share best practices over breakfast in an informal setting. Select 1 topic to register for your seat at that table.
Limited seating per topic. Cost for the breakfast is $40.00 (breakfast buffet is included)
Topics will include:
1. America’s Opioid Crisis - SOLD OUT
Opiate addiction and overdose is a huge problem across the country—in communities large and small, rural and urban. Join this breakfast roundtable to discuss the impact this crisis is having on your system and share ideas about what your EMS agency can do to better handle this ongoing war with opioid addiction.
Moderator: Neal Richmond, MD, FACEP
2. Benefits of Prehospital ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
ECMO is a specialized treatment modality where external blood circulation is used to oxygenate blood in order to resuscitate or support a patient with heart failure or severe lung injury. Advances in technology is making this specialized treatment modality more widely available in EDs and—in some places—by specialized prehospital teams. Learn more about how ECMO works and discuss the potential integration of this lifesaving therapy into prehospital and emergency care.
Moderator: Ed Dickinson, MD, NRP, FACEP
3. Best Practices in Peer Support
Stress is a reality of EMS, and sometimes the stress adds up and becomes too much. The industry has acknowledged that we need to do a better job talking about this issue and supporting each other. Join this breakfast roundtable to discuss how to foster an environment of peer support—by facing challenges together, dealing with stress can be much easier.
Moderator: Wayne Zygowicz, MS, EFO, CFO, EMT-P
4. Epinephrine: To Use or Not to Use?
The role of epinephrine in cardiac arrest resuscitation continues to evolve. Questions include how much to give a patient, how often to give it, how early to give it, and even if it should be administered at all in cardiac arrest. Join this breakfast roundtable to discuss—or debate—the administration of prehospital epi in cardiac arrest.
Moderator: Corey Slovis, MD, FACP, FACEP, FAAEM
5. I’m a New Manager, Now What? - SOLD OUT
Being a manager is always a challenge—you’re responsible for running a structured department, ensuring compliance, and supporting the training and development needs of your team. Join this breakfast roundtable and brainstorm with other new managers to learn from the examples—and mistakes—of others.
Moderator: Robert Girardeau, MSM-HCA, BS, NRP, FP-C
6. Identifying & Diverting Stroke Patients
Research indicates that prehospital stroke recognition and stroke code activation results in better outcomes for patients. Join this breakfast roundtable to discuss ways we can improve stroke recognition and more effectively transport these critical patients to definitive treatment as soon as possible.
Moderator: Jason T. McMullan, MD
7. Issues in Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) - SOLD OUT
MIH and community paramedicine is a rapidly evolving service delivery model allowing EMS to make significant contributions to community health that extend beyond emergency care and patient transport. Join this breakfast roundtable to share ideas on program design, training providers, measuring success and finding the right stakeholders to work with.
Moderator: Matt Zavadsky, MS-HSA, NREMT
8. Provider Stress & Resiliency - SOLD OUT
Stress affects all personnel involved in EMS and can result in mental health issues as well as clinical and operational errors. Join this breakfast roundtable to discuss how we can reduce stress among our ranks and educate providers on the importance of resiliency training and practices.
Moderator: Chetan Kharod, MD, MPH
9. Rural & Wilderness EMS - SOLD OUT
Delivering prehospital care in rural parts of the country presents many challenges: little to no communication with medical centers, limited resources spread across a large area, susceptibility to severe environmental conditions and the possibility for prolonged evacuations for large-scale disasters. Join this breakfast roundtable to discuss the unique clinical and operational challenges of delivering prehospital patient care in rural and/or wilderness settings.
Moderator: Neil Noble
10. Sepsis Screening & Alerting - SOLD OUT
Join this breakfast roundtable to discuss methods for EMS identification, assessment and field treatment of life-threatening sepsis. What criteria do you use to identify possible cases of sepsis?
Moderator: Rommie Duckworth, LP