May 5 - 7, 2008
Atlantic City Convention Center
Atlantic City, NJ
 
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5/5 Monday
7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
Registration, Room 405
Outside Room 401/404 Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
ATLS® Refresher Course - Physicians Only
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Must have current ATLS® card
Alexander Axelrad, MD, FACS
Course Director

ATLS® Refresher Course - Physicians Only

Half-day ATLS® student refresher course format that provides
ATLS® certified physicians the opportunity to maintain current status.

Content overview, triage scenarios, written practical tests included.



5/6 Tuesday
7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
Registration, Room 405/406
Room 402 Continental Breakfast, Pre-function
   
7:45 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Welcome, Announcements,
Room 403  
   
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
General Session/Keynote Speaker
Scott Monk, DO Memorial Lecture
Special Consideration in Geriatric Trauma

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Thomas M. Scalea, MD, FACS
Room 403
   
9:10 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. Break-out Sessions
Trauma
Room 404

Spine Clearance in Children after Multiple Trauma
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Thomas Whalen, MD, MMM, CPE, FACS, FAAP

   
Emergency Medicine
Room 419

Challenging Cases in the ED
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Thomas Brabson, DO, MBA, FACOEP, FACEP

   
Critical Care
Room 401

Fluid Resuscitation in TBI
Kenneth Abrams, MD, MBA

   
10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. Break, Networking, Exhibits
Room 402  
   
10:40 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Break-out sessions
Ralph Cavalier, MD
Memorial Lecture
Damage Control Orthopedics
Thomas M. Scalea, MD, FACS
Trauma
Room 404
 

 

Emergency Medicine
Room 419

Patient Safety, What does it really mean?
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John Becher, DO

 

 

Critical Care
Room 401
Quality in the ICU: Beyond the Basics
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Manish Tandon, MD, MPH, FAC
 

 

11:40 a.m. - 1:10 p.m. General Session/Keynote Speaker
Room 403 Lunch
Trends in Hemodynamic Monitoring:
The Future of the Pulmonary Artery Catheters

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Orlando C. Kirton, MD, FACS, FCCM, FCCP
   
Room 402 Break, Networking, Exhibits,
(This break falls under the extended lunch break)
   
1:10 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. Break-out Sessions
Trauma
Room 404

Handlebar injuries in children
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Thomas Whalen, MD, MMM, CPE, FACS, FAAP

 

 

Emergency Medicine
Room 419

Stroke: A neurosurgeon’s perspective
Michael Feely, MD, MCH, FRCS, BSC

 

 

Critical Care
Room 401

Update on Sepsis-Current Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
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Sergio Zanotti Cavazzoni, MD

 

 

2:20 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Break-out sessions
Trauma
Room 404

Does Anyone need surgery?
Non-operative management of solid organ injury

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David H. Livingston, MD, FACS

 

 

Emergency Medicine
Room 419

Pediatric Concussion
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Aftab Karim, MD

 

 

Critical Care
Room 401

Update on Adrenal Insufficiency in Critical Care
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Romeo Pericic, MD

 

 

3:20 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Networking, Exhibits
Room 402  
   
3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. General Session/Case Study
Room 403 Kathy McNulty, MSN, RN, ACNP-C


5/7 Wednesday
6:45 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. Registration, Room 405/406
Room 402 Continental Breakfast and
Pre-function
   
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Sunrise Session
Room 403

Update on Abdominal Compartment
Syndrome/Intraabdominal Hypertension

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Alex Axelrad, MD, FACS

   
8:00 a.m. - 8:10 a.m. Welcome, Announcements
8:10 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.

General Session/Keynote Speaker
Use of Factor VIIa in the Trauma, ER & Critical Care Patient
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Richard P. Dutton, MD, MBA

Room 403
   
9:20 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Break-out sessions
Trauma
Room 404

Child Abuse in Trauma
Arthur Cooper, MD

 

 

Emergency Medicine
Room 419

Crush Injuries / Crush Syndrome
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William Gluckman, DO, MBA, FACEP, CPE

 

 

Critical Care
Room 401

Endpoints of perioperative fluid resuscitation
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Corrado Marini, MD

   
10:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Break, Networking, Exhibits
Room 402  
   
10:50 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Break-out sessions
Trauma
Room 404

Trauma Anesthesia
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Richard Dutton, MD, MBA

 

 

Emergency Medicine
Room 419

The unusual pediatric ED visit, what are we missing?
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Shanola DaSilva, MD

 

 

Critical Care
Room 401

Tight glucose control in the ICU to reduce morbidity and mortality
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David Safran, MD

 

 

11:50 a.m. - 1:10 p.m.
General/Lunch Session,
Keynote Speaker
Room 403

Ceptualizing a Cyborg – Developing a Thought controlled Artificial Limb
Douglas H Smith, MD

Room 402 Break/Exhibits/Networking
   
1:10 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. Break-out sessions
Trauma
Room 404

Traumatic Injuries in the morbidly obese
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Steven Ross, MD

 

 

Emergency Medicine
Room 419

Management of Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies: What you really need to know in the Emergency Department
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Brett Greenfield, DO, FACOEP

 

 

Critical Care
Room 401

Pediatric Resuscitation
Arthur Cooper, MD

 

 

2:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Break, Networking, Exhibits
Room 402  
   
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break-out sessions
Trauma
Room 404

The pregnant trauma patient
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Ayoola Ali, MD, FACS

 

 

Emergency Medicine
Room 419

New Pre-hospital Trauma Devices
Mark Merlin, DO, EMT-P, FACEP

 

 

Critical Care
Room 401

Current concepts in ICP Mgt in the Pediatric population
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Shanola DaSilva, MD

 

 

3:40 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. Pro/Con Debate
Room 403 Hot Topics in Trauma: Debate Panel
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Kathleen Kerstetter, MSN, RN, ACNP-C
| Trauma Department