Kos Greece – 12 – 14 September 2011
Joe Lex has just uploaded more than 170 free MP3 podcasts of talks from MEMC-VI on Kos Greece, from September 12-14 2011. You can either search directly for talks on Free Emergency Talks, visit the YouTube channel, use the catalogue of links below to access them or wait for them to be entered into the LITFL podcast database…enjoy
Day 1, Plenary
- Patrick Croskerry (Canada): Diagnostic Error – A Case of Neglect
- Ziad Kazzi (Georgia): The Public Health Impacts of a Nuclear Plant Crisis in Your Backyard
Day 1: Resuscitation
- Marc Sabbe (Belgium): ILCOR 2010 Guidelines – Implementation in Different Environments
- Deborah Diercks (California): Updates from the International Committee on Resuscitation
- Scott Weiner (Massachusetts): Update on Prehospital Airway and Resuscitation
- Scott Silvers (Florida): The New ACLS Guidelines
- Marvin Wayne (Washington): Therapeutic Hypothermia Post Cardiac Arrest
- Marcus Ong (Singapore): Autopulse Mechanical CPR Device for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Day 1: Shock & Sepsis
- Vu Kiet Tran (Canada): Non-Invasive Tools for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Shock/Sepsis in the Emergency Department
- David A. Talan (California): Procalcitonin – How Useful Is It in the ED?
- Christoph Dodt (Germany): The Importance of the Autonomic Nervous System in Early Sepsis
- Abdel Bellou (France): Biomarkers in Sepsis – Are They Useful?
- Alan Jones (Mississippi): Lactate in Emergency Department Shock – What Does It Mean and How Do I Use It?
- Fernando Schiraldi (Italy): Full or Empty – Diagnostic Challenges for the Patient in Shock
Day 1: Toxicology & Pharmacology
- Kurt Anseeuw (Belgium): Cyanide Poisoning by Fire Smoke Inhalation – An Algorithm of Treatment
- Melanie Stander (South Africa): The Management of Ethylene Glycol Poisoning
- David M. Wood (United Kingdom): Novel Psychoactive Substances – Recreational Drug Toxicity
- Judd E. Hollander (Pennsylvania): Update on Cocaine Myocardial Ischemia
- Dianne P. Calello (New Jersey): Cyanide Toxicity – Cyanide Antidote Kit vs. Cyanocobalamin
- Francisco Moya Torrecilla (Spain): New Anticoagulants in the Management of Acute Entities Like Atrial Fibrillation
Day 1: Medical Imaging
- Hein Lamprecht (South Africa): The FASH (Focused Assessment of Sonography in HIV-TB) Scan
- Robert Jarman (United Kingdom): Lung Point of Care Ultrasound Scans
- Michael Drescher (Connecticut): The Role of CT Angiography in the Diagnosis of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Francisco Moya Torrecilla (Spain): CT for Management of Chest Pain
- Gregory Garra (New York): Ultrasound for Assessing an Ectopic Pregnancy – Pros and Cons of the Discriminatory Zone
- Jeffrey M. Freeman (Michigan): Ultrasound Imaging to Assess Increased Intracranial Pressure
Day 1: History of Emergency Medicine
- David Williams (United Kingdom): The Development of European Emergency Medicine
- Robert E. Suter (Texas): Hippocrates – Father of 19th Century of American Reformation in Medicine?
- Helen Askitopoulou (Greece): Emergencies & Acute Diseases in the Hippocratic Corpus
- Joe Lex (Pennsylvania): A Shocking History of Electroresuscitation
- Terry Kowalenko (Michigan): Presidential Assassinations – The Medical History
- Venkataraman Anantharaman (Singapore): From 3rd World to 1st World – Evolving an Asian Brand of Emergency Medicine
Day 1: Administration
- Mark Reiter (Pennsylvania): The “No Waiting Room” ED
- Darren Kilroy (United Kingdom): The Effective Clinical Engagement of the Emergency Department Team
- Matthias Brachmann (Germany): Key Performance Indicators for an Emergency Department
- Richard Wolfe (Massachusetts): Learning to Be a Department Chair – The Responsibilities of Leadership
- Howard Blumstein (North Carolina): Emergency Department Patient Safety Initiatives
- Barbara Hogan (Germany): Emergency Department Design Meets Lean Management
Day 1: Research in Emergency Medicine
- Gary Gaddis (Kansas): How to Start Emergency Medical Research
- Abdel Bellou (France): Evaluation of Research in Emergency Medicine in Europe
- Sean Gottschalk (South Africa): Knowledge Translation – Clinical Decision Rules
- Paul Barach (Australia): Assessing and Improving Team Performance in Acute Care Settings
- Leslie Zun (Illinois): Pitfalls of Emergency Department Research in the Area of Psychiatric Emergencies
- David A. Talan (California): Emergency Department-Based National Sentinel Network for Research on Emerging Infectious Disease
- Said Laribi (France): Networking in Research in Emergency Medicine – Description of a Great Network
- David Taylor (Australia): Research Ethics and Governance for Emergency Medicine
- Nicola Parenti (Italy): A Review on Clinical Governance in Emergency Medicine
- Robert E. O’Connor (Virginia): Research Director on a Low Budget
- Carlos Garcia Rosas (Mexico): Methods of Evaluation in the Emergency Room – MEXICO vs Mexican Official Rule
- Maaret Castren (Sweden): CPR and Cooling in Cardiac Arrest
Day 2: Plenary
- Pierre Carli (France): Trends in Prehospital Emergency Care in Europe
- Mark Leong (Singapore): Promoting Emergency Medicine Through Education
Day 2: Cardiovascular Emergencies
- Phillip D. Levy (Michigan): Phenotype-Driven Management of Acute Heart Failure – An Emerging Concept That’s Here to Stay
- Fernando Schiraldi (Italy): Arrhythmias Caused by Electrolyte Disorders
- Said Laribi (France): Epidemiology of Acute Heart Failure
- Franck Verschuren (Belgium): Organ Donation after Cardiac Death –
- Mark Langdorf (California): Diagnosis of ACS in the Presence of Bundle Branch Blocks and Pacemakers
- Swee Han Lim (Singapore): Calcium Channel Blockers – Most Cost Effective for Supraventricular Tachycardias & Atrial Fibrillation
Day 2: Paediatric Emergencies
- Santiago Mintegi Raso (Spain): New Challenges in the Management of Very Young Febrile Infants
- Kee-Chong Ng (Singapore): Preparing the Children’s Emergency Department for Viral Epidemics
- Gregory Garra (New York): Acute Phase Reactant Testing for Predicting Occult Bacteremia
- Indrani Sheridan (Saipan): Delivering Bad News When the Patient Is a Child
- Itai Shavit (Israel): Propofol Sedation in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
- Arif Tyebally (Singapore): Role of Children’s Emergency Department in Childhood Injury Prevention
Day 2: Disaster and Mass Casualty
- Efstratios Photiou (Italy): Risk Communication in Recent Disasters – How Did It Work? How Should It Work?
- Mark Leong (Singapore): Mass Casualty Decontamination in the Emergency Department
- Herman Delooz (Belgium): Disaster Bioethics – Taking Care of the Carers
- Ioannis Galatas (Greece): Are Hospitals Prepared to Deal with New Emerging Threats?
- Kristi Koenig (California): Public Health Policy in Disaster Medicine
- Elizabeth Devos (Florida): Psychological Issues in Disaster
Day 2: Prehospital Medicine
- Maaret Castren (Sweden): Identification of Sepsis – Is It Possible in the Prehospital Setting?
- Stephen C. Morris (Washington): Assessing Emergency Medical Systems in Low Income Countries
- Patrick Plaisance (France): Is Noninvasive Ventilation Beneficial in the Prehospital Setting?
- Brian Walsh (New Jersey): Should Prehospital Intubation Be Deferred?
- Raed Arafat (Romania): The Concept of Integrated Mobile Command and Control Center in the Management of Mass Casualty Incidents
- Brian Walsh (New Jersey): Prehospital Medications – How Well Do They Store?
Day 2: Abdominal Emergencies
- Roberta Petrino (Italy): Do “Belly Labs” Ever Help?
- Kevin Rodgers (Indiana): Evidence-Based Approach to Ischemic Bowel Disease
- Kevin Reed (Maryland): Key Features in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Care
- David Brown (Ohio): The Differential Diagnosis of Acute Flank Pain
- Nikolas Sbyrakis (Greece): When Abdominal Pain Does Not Mean Abdominal Emergency
- Christian Wrede (Germany): Undifferentiated Abdominal Pain – What To Do?
Day 2: Pulmonary Emergencies
- Frederic Thys (Belgium): Noninvasive Ventilation in the Prehospital Setting
- Arian Nachat (California): Alternative Medicine in the Treatment of Asthma
- Franck Verschuren (Belgium): Management of Pulmonary Embolism – ICU/CCU, General Ward, or Home?
- Christoph Dodt (Germany): Noninvasive Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure in the Emergency Department
- Robert McNamara (Pennsylvania): Additional Agents for Acute Asthma
- Paolo Groff (Italy): Undifferentiated Dyspnea – Emergency Approach and Management
Day 2: Administration
- George W. Molzen (New Mexico): Quality Indicators in Emergency Medicine
- Paul Porter (Rhode Island): The Administrative Role in the Difficult Emergency Department Patient
- Ruth Brown (United Kingdom): The Management and Organisational Issues of Integration of Residents in the Emergency Department Staff
- Jeffrey Arnold (California): Taking the ‘Dys’ Out of Dysfunctional – Lessons Learned from Turning Around Troubled Emergency Departments
- Anne Fontanel (France): Added Value of Point-of-Care in Emergency Departments
- Colin A. Graham (Hong Kong): Academic Excellence in Emergency Medicine
- Paul Porter (Rhode Island): Choosing the Right Emergency Department Tracking System
- Raed Arafat (Romania): Telemedicine for Implementing the Hub and Spoke System
- Seung Pil Choi (Korea): Implementing Hospital Side Changes in Dealing with Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome
- Gautam Bodiwala (United Kingdom): Establishing Emergency Medicine as a Specialty
- William T. Durkin Jr.: Impact of LEAN Techniques on Emergency Medicine Management
- David Thorisson (Sweden): Information Technology in Emergency Medicine
Day 2: Medical Education
- Terry Kowalenko (Michigan): The Impaired Physician – Substance Abuse in Residency
- Venkataraman Anantharaman (Singapore): Assessment Tools in Emergency Medicine
- Taj Hassan (United Kingdom): Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for a Web-Based Emergency Medicine Training Platform – ENLIGHTENme
- Helen Askitopoulou (Greece): The Diversity of Emergency Medicine Training in Europe
- Ruth Brown (United Kingdom): The UK Curriculum and Examination in Emergency Medicine – Evaluation of Method and Outcome
- Roberta Petrino (Italy): The Process for the European Board Exam in Emergency Medicine – Curriculum Applied to the Exam
- Michael Silverman (New Jersey): How Do You Make Sure Students Are Not Ignored by Emergency Medicine Faculty
- Eric Revue (France): How Students Differ from Residents
- Michael E. Silverman (New Jersey): Bedside Teaching
- Kum Ying Tham (Singapore): Hybridization of Emergency Medicine Training Programs
- Luan E. Lawson (North Carolina): Teaching Teams for the 21st Century
- Brad Bunney (Illinois): Use of Cadaver Lab in Emergency Medicine Resident Education
Day 3: Plenary
- Francesco Della Corte (Italy): Disaster Medicine – Moving Towards a New Academic Discipline
- Ed Sloan (Illinois): An Emergency Medicine Foundation – Joys, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned
Day 3: Trauma
- Colin A. Graham (Hong Kong): Futility of Trauma Resuscitation
- Joanne Williams (California): Permissive Hypotension in the Emergency Department – Pros & Cons
- Raed Arafat (Rumania): Avoiding the Lethal Triad – Hypothermia, Coagulopathy, Acidosis
- Carlos Garcia Rosas (Mexico): The Trauma Impact in Mexico
- Kum Ying Tham (Singapore): As the World Ages – Geriatric Trauma Resuscitation in the Emergency Department
- Christopher Lee (New York): Emergency Department Thoracotomy Controversies
Day 3: Neurologic Emergencies
- Frederick Fiesseler (New Jersey): Subarachnoid Headache – CT Angiography vs Lumbar Puncture
- Brad Bunney (Illinois): 3 Hour versus 4.5 Hour Window for CVA and TPA
- Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesco (Spain): Cephalea Alert Signals
- Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland): Headache in the Emergency Department – Pitfalls and Treatments
- Edward P. Sloan (Illinois): Neuroresuscitative Skills Every Emergency Physician Should Know
- Andrew Asimos (North Carolina): ABC’s of Risk Stratification for TIA (ABCD, ABCD2, ABCD2I, ABCD3I) – Should We Be Using Any of These?
Day 3: Psychobehavioral Emergencies
- Carl Blijd (Netherlands): Aggression Management – Theories, Myths, De-escalation, and Prevention
- Heather Prendergast (Illinois): Atypicals Are Better Than Typical Antipyschotics for Acute Agitation
- Vu Kiet Tran (Canada): Treatment of Agitation
- Thomas Lukens (Ohio): Psychiatric Medical Clearance
- Nikolas Sbyrakis (Greece): Psychosocial Impact of Acute Illness – Injury on Emergency Department Patients – Time to Address the Problem
- Jana Seblova (Czech Republic): Crisis Intervention in the Emergency Department – Both for Patients and Personnel
Day 3: Environmental and Wilderness Emergencies
- Polat Durukan (Turkey): Snake Bite Envenomations
- Sean Gottschalk (South Africa): Nepal Expedition Medicine
- Jana Seblova (Czech Republic): Drowning and Hypothermia – An Update for the Emergency Physician
- Diane P. Calello (New Jersey): Radiation Antidotes – An Update
- Nima Majlesi (New Jersey): Ice Bath is the Best Method to Cool Hyperthermic Patients
- Richard Shih (New Jersey): Is Activated Charcoal Useful for Toxicity from Plant Ingestions?
Day 3: HEENT Emergencies
- Kevin Reed (Maryland): What Really Helps a Sore Throat
- Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland): Rapid Sequence Intubation – A Good Option for the Emergency Physician
- Polat Durukan (Turkey): Spinal Trauma Radiology in Cervical or Head Trauma
- Kenneth Butler (Maryland): Current Devices in Airway Management
- Christopher Lee (New York): Vertigo – Differentiating Between Central and Peripheral
- Nausheen Doctor (Singapore): Benzodiazepines or Antipsychotics for the Acutely Agitated Patient
Day 3: Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine
- Rajat ‘Rip’ Gangahar (United Kingdom): IFEM International Point of Care Emergency Ultrasound Faculty
- Paola Molino (Italy): Emergency Ultrasound in Cardiac Arrest
- Lisa D. Mills (California): Ultrasound in Hand Emergencies
- Joseph Wood (Arizona): Sonographic Assessment of Medical Emergencies (S.A.M.E.)
- Melanie Stander (South Africa): Vascular Applications of Emergency Point of Care Ultrasound
- Paolo Molino (Italy): Bedside Ultrasound in Acute Dyspnea
Day 3: Administration
- Kenneth Butler (Maryland): Emergency Medical Care at Academic Medical Centers and Community Hospitals – A Comparison
- Eric Revue (France): Overcrowding
- Mark Reiter (Pennsylvania): Safety and Quality Key Performance Indicators
- Nathalie Flacke (France): Knowledge Management
- Manuel Hernandez (Illinois): Use of Computerized Simulation Modeling for Process Redesign
- Paul Barach (Australia): Patient Handovers / Hand-offs
- Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesco (Spain): Technologies in Building a Hospital Database Network
- Gerald Kierzek (France): Medico-Legal Issues in Emergency Medicine
- Michael Christ (Germany): Reducing Mortality in Community Acquired Pneumonia
- Lisa Moreno-Walton (Louisiana): Mentorship in Action – Benefits and Techniques
- Nathalie Flacke (France): The Challenges of Female Leadership in Medicine
- Juliana Poh (Singapore): Prescribing for Common Conditions in the Elderly
Day 3: Research
- Gary Gaddis (Kansas): Knowledge Translation – Clinical Decision Rules
- Luis Garcia Castrillo Riesco (Spain): Data Mining Opportunities for Public Health Monitoring
- David Salo (New Jersey): Basic Research Statistics – P Values and Confidence Intervals
- Ana Maria Navio Serrano (Spain): The I.S.S.S. Study (International Score of Shock Severity)
- Brenna Farmer (New York): Toxicology Research – Fruitful Areas and Pitfalls
- Juliana Poh (Singapore): Using Research in Planning Geriatric Emergency Care
- Nausheen Doctor (Singapore): Asian Resuscitation Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
- Roberto Cosentini (Italy): Research in Noninvasive Ventilation – Can It Be Done in our Busy EDs?
- Lisa Moreno-Walton (Louisiana): Pearls and Pitfalls in the Design of a Survey Study
- William Barsan (Michigan): NETT – The Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network
- Colin A. Graham (Hong Kong): How Original Studies Could be Published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine or Other Emergency Journals
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