Lectures & Resources
- Keynotes & General Sessions
- Perspiration and Inspiration: You’ve got to love this job.
- The Nature of Emergency Services: A Beekeeper’s Perspective
- The One Thing They’ll Remember: A Lasting Legacy
- Bringing It Home: Connecting Theory With Real World Practice
- Earning The Patch: The Fabric of Brotherhood
- The Rules Of Firefighting That Will Change Your Life
- What’s Your Story? The Meaning In What We Do.
- Ben Franklin: His Lessons for 21st Century Fire and EMS Services
- Good Enough Is Not Good Enough: Demanding More of Yourself and Your Service
- Clinical Skills
- Airway & Breathing
- Airway Of Choice: What Is The Role Of Endotracheal Intubation In EMS Airway Management?
- Difficult Airway Management: Better Decisions Under Adverse Conditions
- Advanced Practices for “Basic” Ventilation: More effective uses for fundamental tools
- O2 – Oh No! You’ve (probably) been managing ventilation wrong
- A Bag of Hot Air: Understanding gas exchange is improving patient care
- Medical
- Anaphylaxis – They never taught me that! Critical updates for life-threatening emergencies.
- Innovations and Advances in Stroke Care: Out of the hospital and into the field.
- Improving EMS Stroke Care: New Models for Saving Patients’ Life’s.
- M. I. Missing Cardiac Patients? The EMTs Guide to Acute Coronary Syndromes
- The Top 10 Cardiac Resuscitation Headlines: And Why You Have To Read Past Them For The Real Story
- The Most Important Vital Sign: 20 Things EMS Can Do With Capnography
- It’s NOT Always Sepsis: A common-sense approach for ALS and BLS providers
- Patient Care Hand Off: Mission Critical Communications and “The Bermuda Triangle of Healthcare”
- Trauma
- MARCH’ing Towards Death: Myth Busting & Innovations In Trauma Care
- EMS and TBI: Immediate Field Care for High-Impact Injuries
- Designer Drug Evolution: Managing Uncontrolled Patients On Controlled Substances
- Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome: Scromiting and the Anti-Munchies
- Squeeze Play: Crush Injury, Crush Syndrome, and Suspension Trauma
- Trauma Care for High Speed Collisions: MARCHing Like A Trauma Surgeon
- The Top 10 Trauma Myths and Legends: Seeking the science beyond the textbooks
- HOT Controversies in Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: What do the experts say?
- Stopping the Trauma Triad of Death: What you don’t know might kill them
- Peds & Geriatrics
- It Takes All Kinds: Trauma Care in Special Populations
- Pediatric Emergencies: Scene Management & Assessment – The Missing Pieces.
- Stroke in the Very Young: Big numbers for little people.
- Tots “Too Hot!” – The Cute, The Bad and The Ugly of Pediatric Fever
- Super Sick Kids: The Surprising Truth about Pediatric Septic Shock
- Pediatric Cardiac Arrest: What we get wrong. How we can do better
- The ABC’s of Geriatrics: A Focus on Fundamentals to Prevent Cardiac Arrest
- The Silent Majority: Geriatrics in the New Millennium.
- Airway & Breathing
- Operations & Incident Management
- Extrication and EMS: Coordinating Team Delivery of Critical Care
- Advanced Automatic Collision Notification Systems: Crashed cars are calling 911 by themselves
- Bus Collision Response: The 3 Things You Need To Know
- Mass Casualty Incidents: First Due Lessons Learned from Storms, School Buses & September 11th
- On The Job Situational Awareness: How To Work Effectively While Things Are Trying To Kill You
- Managing teams under pressure: Leadership when lives are on the line
- Managing Multitasking: Maximum Effectiveness, Minimum Errors.
- Knowing the Devil: Using Modern Fire Tactics in Modern Mid-Size Departments
- Education & Training
- Accelerating Performance In Your Education Programs: Prepping Students for Real World Work.
- Inspiring Audiences: Deliver Your Classroom Message Effectively Every Time
- Don’t Lose Your Cool: Dealing With Problem Students.
- Student Centered Education In The Digital Age: A Focus on Student Performance and Patient Outcome
- Classroom Tech That Won’t Break The Bank: New Tools, Tricks and Techniques
- Incorporating Critical Thinking in Education: Teaching Not Just “How”, But “Why”
- Putting Critical Thinking Back in Medical Education: Creating Technicians vs Clinicians.
- Putting Hands-On Teamwork Back in Your Classroom: 25 Activities You Can Use Today
- Developing and Delivering Competency Based Education: Prepped for the Test, Ready for the Street
- 60 Educator tips in 60 minutes: Top Tips with No Time Wasted
- Debriefing for real-world learning: It’s not just for simulations any more
- Leadership & Management
- When Opportunity Knocks: Preparing For The Promotional And Hiring Process
- Win Every Firehouse Argument: Use Critical Thinking To Win Friends And Influence Enemies.
- Improving Morale: Simple Steps to Make Work a Better Place
- The Steps to Successful Succession Planning: Helping Others Step Up to Lead
- Managing Multitasking: Maximum Effectiveness, Minimum Errors.
- Social Media Policies and Practices: Rules, Regulations and Responsible Guidelines.
- Motivating The Modern Generation: Making the most of the new work-force.
- Emergency Responder Team Building: Successful Leadership Techniques to Build Exceptional Groups
- Communication and Conflict Management: Turning differences into strengths
- Catch Them and Keep Them: Recruiting and retaining top employees and volunteers
- Quality & Performance Improvement
- Change Management in Emergency Services: Leading the Charge for Change.
- Closing The Performance Gap: Identifying and implementing the best solutions
- A Six-Step Focus on Feedback: Performance improvement, not “compliment sandwich”
- The Beginner’s Guide to Making Meaning of Medical Research
- Intermediate-level Reading Research: Understanding p-values, NNTs and more!
- Centerpiece Workshops