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EMS Odyssey 2020 Presenters

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Stacey Sutherland

Stacey Sutherland
The Critical Role of EMS in Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Dara Rampersad

Dara Rampersad, PhD, LPC, NCC
Psychological First Aid for EMS

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Sergeant Tony Vazquez

Sergeant Tony Vazquez
Response Considerations to an Explosive Even

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter John Rinard

John Rinard, BSN, RN
Children and Disaster: Harm Reduction with Respect

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Julie Augenstein

Julie Augenstein, MD
Pediatric Assessment

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Suzanne Buchanan

Suzanne Buchanan, MSN, RN, CCRN
On Scene Hazardous Materials: Pre-Hospital, ED and Definitive Burn Care

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Greg Hawk

Greg Hawk, EMCT-P
On Scene Hazardous Materials: Pre-Hospital, ED and Definitive Burn Care

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Joseph Sucher

Joseph Sucher, MD
Trauma Potpourri

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Lynn Browne-Wagner

Lynn Browne-Wagner, MSN, RN
They're Back: Infectious Disease Revival

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Rob Gibbons

Rob Gibbons, EMCT-P
Intro to Hand Tevy

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Roxanne Flynn

Roxanne Flynn, MSN, RN, CHS
The Military Partnership and Using Simulation in Your Training

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Charlann Staab

Charlann Staab, RN, MSN, CNP, FAEN
50 Years of Emergency Nursing: Special Video Presentation

AEMS Odyssey 2020 Presenter Tiffiny Strever

Tiffiny Strever, BSN, CEN, TCRN
Pregnancy: Mom and Baby Make Two

Program

EMS Odyssey 2020 Program

Thursday, June 11, 2020

7:00 - 8:00 am

Registration / Check-In / Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 am

Welcome and Announcements

8:15 - 9:15 am

You Talking to Me:
Effective Communication for All Behavioral Types

Mike Campbell, MA

A presentation on behavioral communication. Learn about effective communication styles with people of varying behavioral types..

9:15 - 9:30 am

Break/Vendor Visits

9:30 - 10:30 am

The Critical Role of EMS in Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking

Stacey Sutherland, BS

Rough Stock Injuries

Kathy Reed, RN, MSN, CEN

10:30 - 10:45 am

Break/Vendor Visits

10:45 - 11:45 am

Bites and Stings: Toxic Critter Envenomation

Jon Maitem, DO

Military Partnership Training & Using Simulation Training

Roxanne Flynn, MSN, RN, CHSE

11:45 am - 12:30 pm

Lunch/Vendor Visits

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Psychological First Aid for EMS

Dara N. Rampersad, Ph.D., LPC, NCC

Pregnancy: Mom and Baby Make Two

Tiffiny Strever, BSN, CEN, TCRN

1:30 - 1:45 pm

Break/Vendor Visits

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Close Encounters of the Animal Kind:
Treating Bites and Responding to Officer K9

Ryan Southworth, DO

Wayne A Svoboda, DVM, MS

Prehospital Management in Major Traumatic Brain Injury

Evelyn Hallford, EMCT-P

The Military Coming to an ED Near You

Deb Jeffries, RN, MSN Ed., CEN

50 Years of Emergency Nursing:
Special Video Presentation

Charlann Staab, RN

2:45 - 3:00 pm

Break/Vendor Visits

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Response Considerations to an Explosive Event

Sergeant Tony Vazquez

This presentation will provide actionable information to help survive an explosive event. The presentation will address explosive effects, improvised explosive device recognition, and response considerations.

4:00 pm

Adjournment

4:15 - 6:30 pm

EMS Odyssey 20th Anniversary Roaring 20’s Reception

Friday, June 12, 2020

7:30 - 8:00 am

Registration / Check-In / Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 am

Welcome and Announcements

8:15 - 9:15 am

Children and Disaster: Harm Reduction with Respect

John Rinard, BSN, RN

Children are often overlooked in community and agency-based disaster preparedness efforts. This presentation will offer a better understanding of how to prepare for the needs of children post disaster.

9:15 - 9:30 am

Break/Vendor Visits

9:30 - 10:30 am

Updates on Vaping Associated Lung Injury

Anselmo Garcia MD

Pediatric AssessmentJulie Augenstein, MD

Julie Augenstein, MD

On Scene Hazardous Materials:
Pre-Hospital, ED, and Definitive Burn Care

Suzanne Buchanan, MSN, RN, CCRN

William Hawk, EMCT-P

10:30 - Noon

EMS Awards Presentation and Lunch

Noon - 1:00 pm

Trauma Potpourri

Joseph F Sucher, MD, FACS

Intro to Hand Tevy

Rob Gibbons, EMCT-P

The Fourth Trimester:
Emergent Care of Postpartum Patients

Brenna Burns, MSN-Ed, RN, CEN

1:00 - 1:10 pm

Break/Vendor Visits

1:10 - 2:10 pm

They’re Back: Infectious Disease Revival

Lynn Browne-Wagner, MSN, RN

This presentation will discuss the oldies but never goodies of contagious diseases: measles, chicken pox, mumps, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus to include etiology, symptomology and management.

2:15 pm

Adjournment


Note: Due to circumstances beyond our control, last minute presentation and presenter substitutions may be necessary.