Scientific Programme

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Day 1: Monday January 5th 2009

Time Needham Ballroom
8:15 am Welcome Address
Harold Watson
8:30 am History of EM in the Caribbean
Harold Watson
Learning Objectives
9:00 am Keynote Address: Developing Leadership Roles in EM
Donville O. Inniss, Minister of Health
Learning Objectives
10:00 am Ophthalmologic Trauma
Sam Kini
Learning Objectives
10:30 am Why Should I Care About Ultrasound?!
Paul Sierzenski
Learning Objectives
11:00 am Lethal Poisonings
Charles McKay
Learning Objectives
11:30 am Aortic Disasters: What You Don't Know Might Kill Your Patient
Rob Rogers
Learning Objectives
12:00 noon to 1:30 pm LUNCH
Time Hall A Hall B
1:30 pm Cervical Spine Injuries
Jean Johnson
Learning Objectives
EMS Prototypes From Around the World
C. Jim Holliman
Learning Objectives
2:00 pm Pitfalls in Orthopedic Radiography
Michelle Lin
Learning Objectives
Paramedic Services in the Caribbean
David Byer
Learning Objectives
2:30 pm Trauma in Pregnancy
Tom Scaletta
Learning Objectives
ACS: the Role of Pre-Hospital Care
Raymond Massay
Learning Objectives
3:00 pm Asymptomatic Hypertension in the ED: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
Rob Rogers
Learning Objectives
Difficult Vascular Access
Michelle Lin
Learning Objectives
3:30 pm Clinical Update on Asthma
Robert McNamara
Learning Objectives
Cardiac Tamponade
Gino Farina
Learning Objectives
4:00 pm Diving Medicine
Stephen Hayden
Learning Objectives
Procedural Sedation
Sam Kini
Learning Objectives
4:30 pm Preparing for A Deposition
Larry Weiss
Learning Objectives
Dyspnea: Evidence Based Approach and the Role of Bedside Testing
James Ducharme
Learning Objectives
5 pm to 7 pm OPENING CEREMONY
Professor Fraser to Officiate

Day 2: Tuesday January 6th 2009

Time Needham Ballroom
8:00 am Update on the Medical Management of ACS
Raymond Massey
Learning Objectives
8:30 am Getting it Right: Essentials of Patient Throughput
Tom Scaletta
Learning Objectives
9:00 am Risk Management: Cases You Cannot Afford to Miss
Reginald King
Learning Objectives
9:30 am Marine Envenomations & Traumatic Marine Injuries
Suzanne Shepherd
Learning Objectives
10:00 am Drugs That Can Kill a Toddler with One Pill or Swallow
Joe Lex
Learning Objectives
10:30 am Tips of the Trade: Unconventional Solutions to Conventional Problems
Michelle Lin
Learning Objectives
11:00 am When the Doctor Becomes a Patient
Michelle Biros
Learning Objectives
12:00 noon to 1:30 pm LUNCH
Time Hall A Hall B
1:30 pm The Irritable Child
Michele Lashley
Learning Objectives
Becoming a Superb Educator: Teaching Adult Learners
Thomas Hurt
Learning Objectives
2:00 pm Pediatric Head Trauma
Ian Sammy
Learning Objectives
Simulation Technology for Teaching EM
Richard Stair
Learning Objectives
2:30 pm Potentially Lethal Conditions in the First 60 Days of Life
Zoe Casey
Learning Objectives
So Your Resident Needs Remediation?
Robyn Hoelle
Learning Objectives
3:00 pm A Loaded Gun: Interactions of Commonly Used Medications
Gary Gaddis
Learning Objectives
Getting Published: The Life and Death of a Manuscript
Michelle Biros
Learning Objectives
3:30 pm The Difficult Airway
A. J. Smally
Learning Objectives
Staying Sane as Faculty: Difficult or Impossible?
Stephen Hayden
Learning Objectives
4:00 pm First Responder Case Scenarios: Do's and Don'ts
C. Jim Holliman
Learning Objectives
Education: The European Way
Gunnar Ohlen
Learning Objectives
4:30 pm Pitfalls in Using Newer Laboratory Tests: BNP, D-dimer, CRP, Cardiac Biomarkers
Joe Lex
Learning Objectives
Between Two Worlds: EM in Puerto Rico
Manuel Colon
Learning Objectives

Day 3: Wednesday January 7th 2009

Time Hall A Hall B
8:00 am   Managing the Trauma Airway
Joanne Williams
Learning Objectives
8:30 am Preparing a Local Disaster Response
Haresh Thani
Learning Objectives
A Bloody Mess: ENT Trauma
Kris Arnold
Learning Objectives
9:00 am Terrorism: Chemical Warfare
Charles McKay
Learning Objectives
How to Read a Trauma Patient's Chest X-Ray
Joe Lex
Learning Objectives
9:30 am Burn Mass Casualty Incidents
C. Jim Holliman
Learning Objectives
Doorway Diagnosis of the Mangled
Kevin Rodgers
Learning Objectives
10:00 am Taking Care of the Care-Givers in Disasters
Kris Arnold
Learning Objectives
Abdominal CT: Necessity, Nephropathy, and Allergy Myths
Joe Lex
Learning Objectives
10:30 am The Cave-in on the Island of Barbados
David Binks
Learning Objectives
Controversies in Abdominal Pain
Robert McNamara
Learning Objectives
11:00 am Sports Injuries
Jerome Jones
Learning Objectives
Rhabdomyolysis and Compartment Syndromes
Gary Gaddis
Learning Objectives
11:30 am A Review of Intraosseus Devices
C. James Holliman
Learning Objectives
Which Anti-emetic Does My Patient Need?
Gary Gaddis
Learning Objectives
12:00 to 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm Physician Health, Wellness and Wellbeing
Chaynie Williams
Learning Objectives
Orthopedic Pearls and Pitfalls
Kevin Rodgers
Learning Objectives
2:00 pm Violence Against Health-care Workers
Joanne Bradford
Learning Objectives
Geriatric Trauma
Joanne Williams
Learning Objectives
2:30 pm The Female Emergency Physician
Michelle Biros
Learning Objectives
Non-Traumatic Joint Pain
Cindy Flower
Learning Objectives
3:00 pm Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse: Recognition in the ED
Cyralene Bryce
Learning Objectives
Latest Drugs and Devices in Wound Care
Lingappa Amernath
Learning Objectives
3:30 pm Error Recognition in Medicine
Thomas Hurt
Learning Objectives
Tetanus
Kumar Alagappan
Learning Objectives
4:00 pm Benchmark and Quality Indicators in the ED
Joel Moll
Learning Objectives
Managing Hand Injuries
Kevin Rodgers
Learning Objectives
4:30 pm Pain Management in the ED
James Ducharme
Learning Objectives
Dermatology in EM
Andrew Forde
Learning Objectives

Day 4: Thursday January 8th 2009

Time Needham Ballroom
8:00 am Emergency Physician Advocacy
Larry Weiss
Learning Objectives
8:30 am Collaboration in the International EM Setting
Tamara Thomas
Learning Objectives
9:00 am The Future of EM in the Caribbean
Ian Sammy
Learning Objectives
9:30 am Evidence Based Hospital Design: Implications for Emergency Care
Gunnar Ohlen
Learning Objectives
10:00 am Emergency Medicine in the 21st Century: Role in Maintaining Public Health
Joseph Adrian Tyndall
Learning Objectives
10:30 am to 11:30 am Establishing a Caribbean Federation of Emergency Medicine
Panel Discussion: Harold Watson, Jean Johnson, Ian Sammy, Bob Mc Namara, Gunnar Ohlen, C. James Holliman, Tamara Thomas
11:30 am Closing Ceremony, Awards, Research Prizes