The conference brings together educators, researchers and leaders of unparalleled excellence from throughout the Americas, and the world. The conference will include three days of lectures by internationally recognized experts in the field, as well as pre-conference workshops that will gather emergency practitioners from all over Latin America.
Topics That Will Be Covered Include:
- The Difficult Airway-Emergency Cases
- All you ever need to know about the anatomy of the airway
- Pharmacology of Intubation: the right drug for the right situation
- Airway devices and rescue techniques
- Airway and ventilator techniques using simulation module
- What s the latest on trauma management
- Head and Neck Trauma: Complex Anatomy, Careful evaluation
- Lessons from the Front: War related injuries
- Deadly Injuries: Abdominal trauma and Chest trauma
- Sports related injuries
- Wound management in the time of MRSA
- Update on toxicology
- New Drugs of Abuse that you might see in you ER
- Respiratory Emergencies: Community acquired pneumonia
- Pulmonary Embolism update
- Neurologic Emergencies: Update on stroke
- Intracranial hemmorrage and oral anticoagulants - stop the bleeding
- Identifying early sepsis
- Understanding volume status and fluids
- Cardiovascular Emergencies: Difficult Dysrhythmias
- Difficult EKGs: Ischemia and acute myocardial infarction
- Maximizing survival in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure
- Highlights from the Emergency Medicine Literature
