IAFP Offers Two Pre-conferences at AMTC

Presentation:  Neonatal Transport Care

Presenter: 

Chris Baker, RN TriState CareFlight Medical Program Director,  Former Director of Akron Children's Transport Team

Presentation Description:

• Overview of neonatal transport for the new practitioner and non-neonatal practitioner.  Presentation will include discussion of the initial stabilization, differential diagnosis and treatment.  Facilitating the transport of the Peds/Neo team will also be discussed including equipment needs for ground, fixed and/or rotor wing transport.

By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

• List common neonatal conditions and stabilization of life threatening conditions
• Describe important aspects of neonatal transport
• Describe the outcomes associated with effective neonatal transport

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Presentation: Stabilization of Critically Ill Children

Presenters: 

Girish Deshpande, MD University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine

Tara L. Osman, APN, CPNP, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Illinois

Presentation Description:

• Discuss and demonstrate (hands-on skills) management of critically ill infants and children.  Simulator scenarios will be used for hands-on skills such as bag-mask ventilation, intubation, chest compressions, placement of venous/intraosseous lines, drainage of pheumothorax etc.

Skills practice on Laerdal SimBaby 

By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the anatomical and physiological differences between children and adults.
• Discuss the signs of respiratory distress in children.
• Demonstrate the management of a child with an unstable airway.
• Describe and illustrate stabilization of pediatric trauma victim.
• Describe post-arrest stabilization and transportation of pediatric patients.
• Demonstrate techniques for IV therapy and insertion in pediatric patients.

This session will offer a didactic session followed by skills practice on Laerdal SimBaby and MegaCode Kid.

Lecturers will present evidence-based, updated information related to their topics, including medico-legal issues involved. 

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Attend both sessions

for one reduced rate

$25 (IAFP, ASTNA, AMPA, NAAC, AAMS member rate)

$35 (non-member rate)

$35 (IAFP, ASTNA, AMPA, NAAC, AAMS member rate)

$45 (non-member rate)

Attend both sessions for a reduced rate

• $50 (member rate)
• $60 (non-member rate)