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Pre-Congress Courses

ED Evaluation and Management of IED Injuries

This course will be composed of several didactic sessions followed by a tabletop exercise that will cover the material presented in these sessions. Participants will learn about the different types of Improvised Exlplosive Devices (IED), the different types of blast injuries, the different types of thermal or chemical burn injuries, and learn to evaluate and manage victims of thermal, chemical, and radiological burns. Participants will also learn how to evaluate victims injured in a dirty bomb incident and how to perform radiation detection and decontamination. Participants will learn in a didactic format as well as by going through a practical scenario during the table top exercise, how to manage these different scenarios.

Schedule: Day 1
8:00am - 8:30am Registration, Welcome, and Introductions All Faculty
8:30am - 9:30am Session I: Overview of IEDs  
9:30am - 10:00am Break  
10:00am - 11:00am Session II: Mechanism of Blast Injuries and Thermal Burns  
11:00am - 12:00pm Session III: Clinical Evaluation of Blast and Thermal Injuries  
12:00 - 1:15pm Lunch  
1:15pm - 2:15pm Session IV: Prehospital Management of Blast and Burn Injuries  
2:15pm - 2:30pm Break  
2:30pm - 3:30pm Session V: ED Management of Blast and Burn Injuries  
3:30pm - 4:30pm Session VI: Evaluation and Management of Injuries from Chemical-Augmented IED's  
4:30pm - 5:00pm Evaluation All Faculty  

Proposed Schedule: Day 2
8:00am - 8:30am Registration, Welcome, and Introductions Faculty and Coordinator
8:30am - 9:30am Session I: Overview of Different Types of Radiological Threats Using Historical Examples  
9:30am - 10:00am Break  
10:00am - 11:00am Session II: Basic Radiation Physics  
11:00am - 12:00pm Session III: Introduction to Radiation Surveys and Detection  
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch  
1:00pm - 1:45pm Session V: Clinical Evaluation and Management of Acute Radiation Syndrome  
1:45pm - 2:30pm Session VI: Clinical Evaluation and Management of Internal Contamination  
2:30pm- 2:45pm Break  
2:45 - 4:45pm Tabletop Exercise: Case-Based Discussion All Faculty
4:45pm - 5:00pm Evaluation and Certificates Coordinator