Workshops

FAST Workshop

Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) is a limited point-of-care (POC) ultrasound examination directed solely at identifying life-threatening trauma situations.

In this hands-on workshop with human volunteers you will learn FAST and eFAST protocols, which are a valuable POC tool used in trauma situations.

Highly qualified doctors will teach you where to place and orientate the transducer in order to obtain standard views. You will learn to identify free fluid in specific locations.

Join this outstanding activity!

Bleeding Control Course (B-Con)

Motivated by multiple tragedies that have occurred in the recent years, Hartford Consensus was convened to improve survivability from manmade or mass casualty events. The injuries from these events generally present with severe bleeding and The Bleeding Control for the Injured (B-Con) Course provide to professional first responders the hands-on skills and basic tools to recognise and control life-threatening hemorrhage.

The course includes demonstration of proper use of tourniquets, wound packing, use of effective pressure application, and use of hemostatic dressing.

Trainer to student ratio: 1:8. Workshop duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes. Diploma is included.

Detection of Child Abuse

Child abuse or child maltreatment in any of its forms (physical, sexual, psychological maltreatment or neglect) is a growing and quite invisible problem with devastating consequences for the development of the victims. Its high levels of morbidity and mortality are well known.

The training in early detection of child abuse should be a primary focus for prehospital emergency services, as they can be the first contact of abused children with the health system, even when the children are not the patients attended in first instance. Training emergency professionals that work in contingency scenarios where there are children is an excellent way to increase reported abuse cases and reduce the frequency and severity of child abuse.

Through simulated scenarios with actors and actresses, this workshop will provide you the competences to suspect and report child abuse in prehospital emergency settings.

There is still much that can and must be done to protect children from abuse. Remember, the future of many abused children can be at your hands.

CBRN Workshop

Although CBRN risk is perceived as something far from us, we have to take into account that tons of potentially dangerous items are passed through every city every day and also the potential risk of industrial accidents. We also cannot forget the criminal threat and the developing in the last years of serious infectious diseases that could trigger an epidemy. Because of this, every emergency service of the world must be prepared and have the appropriate material and education for professionals.

SAMUR Proteccion Civil has developed a procedure based on zoning, protection and action that will be the centre of the workshop presented at EMS2019. This CBRN incident procedure was developed after the 11 March attack with the purpose of giving immediate response to CBRN incidents. In this specific execution procedure, the following aspects are considered:

• Immediate response
• Personal protection equipment in all units
• Staff teaching and training on a regular basis given by specialists in the field
• Coordination of work procedure and monthly training

We try to include the CBRN procedures in every daily situation (daily training of teams) because we believe the disaster is an expansion of the daily work. In this workshop, our specialists will show participants how the materials are used in our Emergency System and they will test if it is possible to perform ALS.