Opening ceremony with keynote Anders Hvid: Face the Future – when technology transforms emergency medical services
Coffee break
Airway management
Chairs: Torben Wisborg & Michael Friis Tvede
Speakers:
Per Kristian Hyldemo: How to manage an unconscious trauma patient without endotracheal intubation competence?
Paul Gowens: The new consensus statement on paramedic intubation by the College of Paramedics U.K.
Jerry Nolan: Airway management in cardiac arrest – what does the science tell us?
Engaging patients and relatives
Chair: Lisa Kurland & David Whitmore
Speakers:
Anne Bergem: Patients with mental health problems and their relatives
Vinay Nadkarni: Children/parents – difficult messages, involve in decisions
Tony Walker: Patients and relatives – maybe many relatives where there is a conflict about what to do in situations out hospital and in the emergency unit
Best Abstract – Oral Presentation
Chairs: Fredrik Folke & Andreas Claesson
Speakers:
Alexander White
Stig Nikolaj Blomberg
Teddy Leguillier
Linn Andelius
Hejdi Gamst-Jensen
News from Industry
Chair: Chris Wright & Sang Do Shin
Speakers:
Graham Bird, Head of Global Sales, Remote Diagnostics Technologies Ltd.: “Capture. Connect. Decide”
Jules Eilledge, Director – Health Care Response, Laerdal: “QCPR Data Management App”
Ali Ghorbangholi, Co-founder and Technical Director of GoodSAM: “Using technology and innovation to scale a working area”
Peter Mckie, ISimulate: “Mobile Technology For In-Situ Simulation”
Breakout session: EMS Agenda 2025
Chair: A.J. Heightmann & David Waters
Speakers: David Page, Guillermo Fuentes, Jerry Overton, Pierre Carli, Fionna Moore, Freddy Lippert & Stefan Poloczek
Workshop:Defusing
Workshop faculty: Michaela Kolbe & Doris Østergaard
EMS TED-talk
Chairs: Andy Thomas & Andrew Lockey
Speakers:
Paul Anderson, Nadine Levick, Andrew Lockey, Ruben Verlangen, Graham McClelland, Jamie Miles & Griet Bellekens
Poster walks:
- Cardiac arrest session 1 & 2
- Pain and trauma
- Dispatch
Lunch
Hot topics in resuscitation
Chair: Carolina Malta & Hideharu Tanaka
Speakers:
Peter Kudenchuk: Antiarrhythmic drugs in cardiac arrest: which, when, and why?
Pierre Carli: When drugs aren’t enough: E-CPR
Jerry Nolan: Cardiac arrest centers: evident or evidence?
Military EMS session
Chairs: Lars Rasmussen & AJ. Heightmann
Speakers:
David Whitmore: What can the UK BATLS Course give the Civilian EMS Practitioner
Chris Wright: Update on UK military Pre-Hospital Emergency Care
François Braun: Safe Marche Ryan : a military solution for civilian medical teams during a terrorist attack
How do we educate/train to meet tomorrows challenges
Chair: Doris Østergaard & Susan Niermeyer
Speaker:
Vinay Nadkarni: Can simulations be used to prepare the health practionerray in the future
Andrew Lockey: How can on the job training prepare the healtch practionary in the future
David Page: Is certification the way to go
Half the world away
Chair: James Ward
Speaker:
James Ward: Drivers for change in priority based dispatch – a global issue requiring transformational change.
Neil Sinclair: Scotland’s story, using evidence to lever a paradigm shift in service delivery – methods and outcomes
Karen Smith: The experience of transformational change in Victoria Ambulance – methods and outcomes
Breakout session: Pain management
Chair: Kevin Seaman
Speakers:
Frank Coffey: Methoxyflurane
Monique van Velzen: Ketamine
Anna Bichmann: Intranasal fentanyl
Workshop: Do it Dutch Do it together – the making of ambulance care protocols
Workshop faculty: Arjan Bruintjes, Karin Lelieveld & Trudie van Duin
Workshop: Airway Management
Workshop faculty: Per Kristian Hyldmo, Michael Friis Tvede & Paul Gowens
Coffee break
End of first day – closing session & Keynote
Keynote speaker: Susan Niermeyer: Inequality in access to health care
Chair: Doris Østergaard
Welcome Event: It takes a system to save a life Parade
TrygFonden Morning Run
Keynote: Jerry Nolan: The science of resuscitation and prehospital CPR
Chair: Freddy Lippert
Coffee break
Situational awareness
Chair: Doris Østergaard & Andreas Claesson
Speakers:
Torben Wisborg: Situation awareness and decision making in the prehospital environment
Michaela Kolbe: How can speak up support leadership
Michel Nemery: CT scan as the primary diagnostic tool
Prehospital Obstetrics
Organizer: Amanda Mansfield, Kim Hinshaw, Jeanett Strandbygaard & Morten Lebech
Medical dispatch: New technology
Chairs: Jerry Overton & Stefan Poloczek
Speakers:
Ng Yih Yng: If you have seen one dispatch center, you have seen one dispatch center
Øyvind Meinich-Bache: CPR-measurement and feedback by smartphone camera
Nikolaj Blomberg: Machine learning – Use of AI in medical dispatch
GRA session
Chair: Sang do Shin & Freddy Lippert
Speakers:
Michael Sayre: GRA Update
Gayathri Nadarajan: Myths about EMS in devoloping countries
Ann Doll, Lisbet Schönau & Helen Collin: What is a Resuscitation Academy?
Breakout session: Prehospital infection control
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Workshop: Airway Management
Workshop faculty: Per Kristian Hyldmo, Michael Friis Tvede & Paul Gowens
Workshop: How do we educate tomorrows team in the prehospital setting and do we need to certify them?
Workshop faculty: David Page, Tim Edwards & Paul Anderson
Lunch
Poster walks:
- Quality and organisation session 1 & 2
- Interventions and diagnostics session 1 & 2
New & innovative abstracts
Chair: Fredrik Folke & Andreas Claesson
Speakers:
Louise Milling
Karen Smith
Hejdi Gamst-Jensen
Emma Baker
Lena Karlsson
Focus on the interface – mind the gap
Chair: Doris Østergaard & Vinay Nadkarni
Speakers:
Peter Dieckmann: Learning from actual work – not only from errors
Tony Walker: Communication in handover situations
Michaela Kolbe: How to improve the handover situation
Trauma
Chairs: Pierre Carli & Michael Friis Tvede
Speakers:
Per Kristian Hyldmo: Should we abandon neck collars in spine protection?
Korne Jellema: Managing head trauma
A.J. Heightman: Haemostasis on scene and in the ER
Neurological emergencies
Chair: Lars Rasmussen & Stefan Poloczek
Speakers:
Anthony Rudd: Stroke – time is brain
Kevin Seaman: Initial approach to low level of consciousness
Richard Lyon: Initial management of traumatic brain injury
Breakout session:SOME in EMS – The good, the bad & the ugly
Chairs: Ng Yih Yng & Paul Gowens
Speakers:
Anna Bichmann: The good of SOME
Andy Thomas: The bad of SOME
Chris Jones: The ugly of SOME
Workshop: Prehospital obstetrics
Workshop faculty: Amanda Mansfield, Kim Hinshaw, Jeanett Strandbygaard, Morten Lebech & Mette Langeland Iversen
Workshop: Medical Dispatch – Optimizing T-CPR quality using a smartphone app
Workshop faculty: Tonje S Birkenes, Øyvind Meinich-Bakke & Helge Myklebust
Coffee break
End of second day & EMS Championship Finals
Gala Dinner
Keynote: Fionna Moore: The view from here
Chair: Jerry Overton
Coffee break
The most important articles in EMS 2017+2018
Chair: Fredrik Folke & David Page
Speaker:
Peter Kudenchuk
Session on terrorism
Chairs: Jerry Overton & Ng Yih Yng
Speakers:
David Whitmore: Citizien Aid
Pierre Carli: Terrorist attack : EMS on the front line ! Lessons from France
François Braun: Is it a place for a medical leardership during a terrorist attack ?
Serious infections
Chairs: Tony Walker & Peter Berlac
Speakers:
Lisa Kurland: Early recognition of sepsis
Heidi S. Vikke: Prehospital Infection Control
Ulrikka Nygaard: Meningitis – still there and be aware
Ethical challenges
Chair: Doris Østergaard & Stefan Poloczek
Speakers:
Chris Jones: Making end of life decisions in EMS: Exploring the ethical and legal challenges through the eyes of a Paramedic”.
Andrew Lockey
Jannicke Mellin
Breakout session: Cardiac Arrest Data
Chair: Freddy Lippert & Takahiro Hara
Speakers:
Sang Do Shin: PAROS
Jan Thorsten Gräsner: EuReCa
Bryan McNally: CARES
Workshop: Prehospital obstetrics
Workshop faculty: Amanda Mansfield, Kim Hinshaw, Jeanett Strandbygaard, Morten Lebech & Mette Langeland Iversen
Workshop:Feedback
Workshop faculty: Anne Lippert, Vinay Nadkarni & Michael Sayre
Lunch
Poster Walk:
- Airway management and resuscitation
- Triage
- Staffing and specific diseases session 1 & 2
Burnout and substance abuse
Chairs: David Whitmore & Charlotte Barfod
Speakers:
A. J. Heightmann: Stress resilience and the effects of sleep deprivation on EMS Providers
Tony Walker: EMS suicide – drivers, prevention and breaking down the stigma
Anne Bergem: Peer support after critical incidents and how to deal with making mistakes
This patient will cheat you!
Chair: David Page & Bodil Thorsager
Speakers:
Korne Jellema: The elderly trauma patient on antithrombotics
Vinay Nadkarni: The critically ill infant
Jacob Steinmetz: Is this really an intoxication
Global Health
Chair: Andrew Lockey & Gayathri Nadarajan
Speakers:
Tore Laerdal: Saving Lives at birth
Jannicke Mellin: The Global Anaesthesia and Surgery Crisis – what can we do
European EMS Leadership session
Chairs: David Waters & Ervigio Corral Torres
Speakers:
Fionna Moore
Freddy Lippert
Pierre Carli
Hans Morten Lossius
Stefan Polochezk
James Ward
Breakout session:Cases with Cardiac Arrhythmias – What to do…
Chair: Fredrik Folke
Speakers:
Peter Kudenchuk
Michael Sayre
Morten Lindkvist
Workshop: Medical Dispatch – Optimizing T-CPR quality using a smartphone app
Workshop faculty: Tonje S Birkenes, Øyvind Meinich-Bakke & Helge Myklebust
Workshop: Situational Awareness
Workshop faculty: Ng Yih Yng, Peter Dieckmann & Torben Wisborg
Coffee break
End of third day – Closing ceremony & Keynote
Bubbles and goodbye
Besides the above you will also be able to attend the very popular cadaver lab during Sunday the 15. April 2018. Read more about the Cadaver Lab here.
