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Tuesday, September 16, 2003


Track A - Auditorium

The Trauma Track: 'Controversies in Trauma Management'
Sesión de Trauma: 'Controversias en el Manejo de Traumas'

Chairs: Joost Bierens (Netherlands) and John Marx (USA)

9.00 - 9.45 A Pain in the Neck: Cervical Spine Evaluation
Dolor en el cuello: Evaluaciòn de la Columna Cervical
- Jerome Hoffman (USA), Giuseppe Nardi (Italy) and Judith Tintinalli (USA)
9.45 - 10.30 Controversies in Abdominal Trauma
Controversias en los Traumas Abdominales
- Peter Thompson (UK) and Richard Wolfe (USA)
10.30 - 11.15 Myth and Pitfalls in Pediatric Trauma
Mito and trampas en los Traumas Pediatricos
- Roger Barkin (1, 2) (USA) and Yehezkel Waisman (Israel)
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
11.30 - 1.00 Panel discussion on Pain Management
Mesa Redonda: el manejo del dolor
Chair and Moderator: Knox Todd (USA)
- Helen Askitopoulou (Greece), Tom Beattie (UK) and Pinchas Halpern (Israel)

The Trauma Track
Sesiòn de Trauma

Chairs and Moderators: Imad Dandan (Lebanon) and William Mallon (USA)

2.30 - 3.30 Trauma Systems: Have They Improved Outcome?
Sistema en Trauma: han mejorado el resultado?
- Joseph Epstein (Australia), Ansgar Brambrink (Germany) and John Marx (USA)
3.30 - 4.00 Fluid Resuscitation: When, Why and What?
Resuscitaciòn con fluidos: Cuando, Como y Por Que'?
- Paul Pepe (USA) and Tamer Tadros (Netherlands)
4.00 - 4.30 The Deep Blue: Drowning and Hypothermia
El grande Blue:Ahogamiento and Ipotermia
- Joost Bierens (Netherlands)

Chairs and Moderators: Fikri Abu-Zidan (United Arab Emirates) and Richard Wolfe (USA)

4.30 - 5.00 Orthopedic Trauma Case Studies
Estudio de casos de Trauma Ortopadico
- William Mallon (USA)
5.00 - 5.30

Novel Technology for Safe Stabilization of Pelvic Ring Fractures
Tecnología Novedosa Para la Estabilización Segura de las Fracturas de la Cintura Pelvica
- James Krieg (USA)

5.30 - 6.30 Controversies in Chest Trauma
Controversias sobre Trauma Toracico
- Richard Wolfe (USA), Giuseppe Nardi (Italy) and Marc Sabbe (Belgium)
6.30 - 7.30 Diagnostic Visual Pearls Potpourri
Perlas visuals para un correcto diagnostico
- William Mallon (USA)


Track B - Tramontana 1

Airway Management Track
Chair and Moderator: Andreas Thierbach (Germany)

9.00 - 11.15

Case Studies in Difficult Airway Emergencies: New Devices in Action
- Ansgar Brambrink (Germany), Volker Döerges (Germany), Michael Frass (Austria), Andy Jagoda (USA), Robert Luten (USA) and Valentin Madrid (Spain)

  • Series of short presentations, each using a case to discuss a particular device
  • Devices to be discussed include: Fiberoptic, Bonfils, ILMA, Combitube, etc.
9:00 - 9:10 Presentation of the Case to solve Thierbach
9:10 - 9:25 How to use Blades and Aides Döerges
9:25 - 9:40 Should we use the ILMA? Luten
9:40 - 9:55 Should we use the Combitube? Frass
9:55 - 10:10 Should we use the EasyTube? Thierbach
10:10 - 10:25 Should we use a Flexible Fiberskope/Bonfils Madrid
10:25 - 10:40 When should we perform a surgical airway? Jagoda
10:40 - 10:55 What if this patient was a child? Brambrink
10:55 - 11:15 Putting it all together: "Optimal Management" Faculty
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 1.00 Go to Main Auditorium for Plenary Session

Chairs: Mark Langdorf (USA) andTaha Ibrahim (United Arab Emirates)

11.30 - 12.00 Case Studies in Difficult ECG Readings: Bundle Branch Blocks
- Mark Langdorf (USA)
12.00 - 12.30 Update and Controversy in Head Trauma
Actualizaciòn en el Trauma de la Cabeza
- Philippe Dabadie (France)
12.30 - 1.00 The Agitated or Psychotic Patient in the ED: Drug Therapy Overview and Update
- Horacio Preval (USA)

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Track
Chairs: Ramon Johnson (USA) and Osama Kentab (Saudi Arabia)

2.30 - 3.30 Pediatric Fevers
- Ramon Johnson (USA) and Yehezkel Waisman (Israel)
3.30 - 4.30 Pediatric Emergencies: The Critically Ill Infant
- Tom Beattie (UK) and Ghazala Sharieff (USA)
4.30 - 5.30 Segregating Pediatric Emergencies: Should Children Have their Own EDs?
- Roger Barkin (USA) and Yehezkel Waisman (Israel)
5.30 - 6.00

Colour Coding in Pediatric Emergency Care
- Said Idrissi (Belgium) and James Broselow (USA)

6.00 - 6.30 Avoiding Errors in Managing the Pediatric Patient
- Tom Beattie (UK) and Ramon Johnson (USA)

6.30 - 7.00

Child Abuse
- Osama Kentab (Saudi Arabia) and Ken Kwon (USA)

7.00 - 7.30

Pediatric Reactive Airway Disease
- Roger Barkin (USA) and Tom Beattie (UK)


Track C - Tramontana 2

The Academic Track (SAEM and EuSEM)
Chairs: William Barsan (USA) and Gautam Bodiwala (UK)

9.00 - 10.30 Board Certification in Emergency Medicine: A Historical and International Perspective
- Chairs and Moderators: William Barsan (USA) and Gautam Bodiwala (UK)
- Abdullah Al Hodaib (Saudi Arabia), Jassim Al Mehza (Bahrain), Ivo Casagranda (Italy), Joseph Epstein (Australia), Cem Oktay (Turkey), Guillermo Burillo Putze (Spain), & Gil Joon Suh (S.Korea)
10.30 - 11.15 Authorship Debates: Understanding and Utilizing Authorship Criteria
- Jim Adams (SAEM) and John Ryan (UK)
11.30 - 1.00 International Journals of Emergency Medicine
- Chairs and Moderators: Herman Delooz (EuSEM) and Ed Panacek (USA),
- Speakers: Michelle Biros (AEM, USA), Herman Delooz (EJEM, Europe), Abdulwahab Almusleh (MEJEM, Middle East), Audun Langhelle (SJEDM, Scandinavia), Ed Panacek (JEM, USA), Jonathan Rieck (IJEM, Israel), John Ryan (EMJ, UK) & Sadat Yanturalli (TJEM, Turkey)

The Research Education Track (SAEM and EuSEM)
Chairs and Moderators: Judd Hollander (SAEM) and David Yates (EuSEM)

2.30 - 3.00

Formal Research Training as a Pathway to Successful Career Development
- Bob Neumar (SAEM)

3.00 - 3.15 Research in Europe: An Overview
- David Yates (UK, EuSEM)
3.15 - 3.30 The Value of the Initial Literature Review
- Joseph Osterwalder (Switzerland, EuSEM)
3.30 - 4.00 Optimizing Your Chances to Publish Your Research: How to Write an Abstract
- Judd Hollander (SAEM)
4.00 - 5.00

How Professional Examinations Can Be Used to Modify Attitudes to Research Methodology
- Patrick Plunkett (Ireland, EuSEM)

Encouraging Local Research Initiatives Which Have Potential
- Tom Coates (UK, EuSEM)

Organising Local Support for International Studies
- Guy Mazairac (Belgium, EuSEM)

5.00 - 5.30 Optimizing Your Chances to Publish Your Research: Manuscript Preparation
- Michelle Biros (SAEM)
5.30 - 6.00 Designing Prospective Research in Your ED: How to Have Valid Data And a Happy ED Staff
- Adam Singer (SAEM)
6.00 - 6.30 Obtaining Funding Early in Your Career: Emphasis on EM Organizations and Industry
- Jim Adams (SAEM)
6.30 - 7.00 Ethics and Human Subject Issues in Research: Informed Consent and International Guidelines
- Jill Baren (SAEM)
7.00 - 7.30 Ethics and Human Subject Issues in Research: Data Safety and Monitoring in Clinical Studies
- Roger Lewis (SAEM)


Track D - Tramontana 3

The Disaster Medicine Track (EMDM)
Chairs: Michel Debacker (EMDM) and Carl Schultz (USA)

9.00 - 10.00 Evidence-based Disaster Medicine?
- Michel Debacker (EuSEM)
- Discussant: Erik Auf der Heide (ATSDR)
10.00 - 10.45 Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine: Two Disciplines?
- Herman Delooz (EuSEM)
- Discussant: Gabor Kelen (USA)
10.45 - 11.15 Presentation of the European Master in Disaster Medicine
- Francesco Della Corte (EMDM) and Fabrizio La Mura (EMDM)
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 1.00 EMDM: Exercise in Disaster Preparedness
- Michel Debacker (EMDM) and Kobi Peleg (Israel)

General Sessions
Chairs: Herman Delooz (Belgium) and Judith Tintinalli (USA)

2.30 - 3.30 Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS): Risk Stratification, Markers of Cardiac Ischemia and Chest Pain Centers
- Paul Calle (Belgium) and Lee Garvey (AAEM)
3.30 - 4.30 SARS: A Study in the Globalization of Disease
- Rick FL Lau (Hong Kong), Suzanne Shepherd (USA) and Lee-Min Wang (Taiwan)
4.30 - 5.00 Nephrologic Emergencies
- Kamal Badr (Lebanon)
5.00 - 5.30 Metabolic Emergencies
- Nadeem Qureshi (Saudi Arabia)
5.30 - 6.00

Deep Venous Thrombosis
- Brian Tiffany (USA)

Chairs: Jacob Cobi Assaf (Israel) and Joanne Williams (USA)
6.00 - 6.30 EM in Wars and Austere Environments
- Robert Simon (USA)
6.30 - 7.30 The Ethics of Emergency Medicine
- Gregory Larkin (USA), Herman Delooz (Belgium) and Lewis Goldfrank (USA)


Track E - Mestral 1

EM Systems Around the World
Chairs: Jeffrey Smith (USA) and Frans Rutten (Netherlands)

9.00 - 9.30 The History of EM in USA
- Robert McNamara (USA)
9.30 - 10.30

EM in Quebec - Mary-Claire Baby
EM in Ireland - Anthony Martin
EM in Poland - Juliusz Jakubaszko

10.30 - 11.15

The Role of International Organizations in the Development of Emergency Medicine
Moderator: James Holliman (USA)
- Jeff Arnold (AAEM), Jeffrey Smith (SAEM IG) and Tammi Thomas (ACEP IS)

11.15 - 11.30

Coffee Break

Chairs: Jeffrey Arnold (USA) and Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland)

11.30 - 1.00

EM in Mexico - Jose Ramon Garcia Vinay
EM in Argentina - Marcelo Muro
EM in Chile - José Miguel Mardónez
EM in Peru - Dora Barrientos

Chairs: Ulkumen Rodoplu (Turkey) and Rajko Vajd (Slovenia)

2.30 - 3.30

EM in Romania - Raed Arafat
EM in the Czech Republic - Milan Ticachek
EM in Albania - Mihal Merci

3.30 - 4.30

EM in Slovenia - Andrej Zmavc
EM in Croatia - Branka Tomljanovic
EM in Greece - Helen Askitopoulou

Chairs: Ulkumen Rodoplu (Turkey) and Jeffrey Arnold (USA)

4.30 - 5.30

EM in Japan - Noboru Ishii
EM in Malaysia - Abdul Ali Raja Mohamed
EM in South Korea - Jae-Myung Chung

5.30 - 6.30

EM in Hong Kong - Chor-Chiu Lau
EM in Taiwan - Dar-Yu Yang (Ghaleb Okla


Track F - Garbi

The Spanish Track

9.00-11.00

Actualización in Emergencies (Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine)
Chairs: Francisco Hermoso Gadeo (Spain) and Gino Farina (USA)
*CME Credit will not be offered for the Spanish Track

  • ¿Hipotensión permisiva en el trauma extrahospitalario? (Permissive Hypotension in Prehospital Trauma?)
    - Manel Chanovas Borrás (Spain)
  • Donación en asistolia: programas extrahospitalarios (Organ Donation in Asistolia: Prehospitals Programs)
    - Juan Carlos Medina (Spain)
  • Información en la transferencia hospitalaria (Information in Interhospital Transfer)
    - Juan Algarra Paredes (Spain)
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 1.00 Go to Auditorium for Plenary Session
12.45 - 2.45 Tecnicas de Emergencia en Atención Primaria
Emergency techniques in primary health care
3.00 - 5.00

Urgencias y Emergencias en Atención Primaria
(Sesion Especial Organizada por SCMFIC y SEMERGEN)
Chairs: Ramon Morera (Presidente de SCMFIC) and J. Antón Teixidó (Presidente SEMERGEN-Catalunya)
- Moderadora: Dolors Forés (SCMFIC)

  • La Cardiopatía Isquémica: Planes de actuación desde la Administración Sanitaria
    - Ramón Morera
  • Reanimación Cardio Pulmonar en la Atención Primaria: Equipamiento y formación
    - Josep Mª Pepió
  • Actuación ante un Síndrome Coronario agudo desde de la Atención Primaria
    - Mª del Mar Domingo
  • Papel de la Atención Primaria en les Urgencias Sanitarias
    - Josep Antón Teixidó

5.00 - 6.30


 

Toxicologia: Accidentes Quimicos (Hazmat Accidents)
Chairs: Martinez Bugallo (Spain) and Lewis Goldfrank (USA)

  • Accidentes Biológicos
    (Biological Accidents) - Mercedes Carrasco (Spain)
  • Accidentes Químicos (Chemical Accidents)
    - Pere Munne Mas (Spain)
  • Receptión Hospitalaria de Accidentes Quimicos (Hospital Admission in Chemical Accidents)
    - Jorge López Pérez (Spain)


Track G - Llevant 1

Oral Abstract Presentations

9.00 - 11.15

English Oral Presentations
(Chairs and Moderators Will Be Announced Separately)

11.15 - 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.15

Meet the Experts: 'Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism'
- Roberta Petrino (Italy) and Peter Richman (USA)

12.15 - 1.00

Meet the Experts: 'Sepsis in the ED'
- Nathan Shapiro (USA) and Bryant Nguyen (USA)

2.30 - 6.30

Oral Abstract Presentations

6.30 - 8.00

Go to Auditorium for EuSEM General Assembly


Track H - Llevant 2

Oral Abstract Presentations

9.00 - 11.15

11.30 - 1.00

2.30 - 6.30


Track I - Mestral 2

Oral Abstract Presentations

9.00 - 11.15

11.30 - 1.00

2.30 - 6.30


Track J - Poster Hall

Poster Presentations
9.00 - 11.15 Poster Session 1
11.30 - 1.00 Poster Session 2
2.30 - 4.30 Poster Session 3
4.30 - 6.30 Poster Session 4

Gala Dinner

9.00 - Midnight