29th Annual Avera McKennan Trauma Symposium

Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM, Sioux Falls, SD

Registration begins at 7:00 a.m.

 
Fees:
Registration:  $65
Nursing Student: $30
Avera Employees: $0

Lunch will be on your own

The 29th Annual Trauma Symposium is designed to bring together the multidisciplinary team in an effort to highlight current evidence-based concepts and technology for the evaluation, diagnosis and acute care management of the trauma patient throughout the continuum of care.

1. Identify the process of mobilizing resources when preparing to care for a trauma patient.
2. Describe the benefits of getting appropriate equipment ready prior to the injured patient arriving at the facility.
3. Discuss strategies utilized to most effectively care for the traumatically injured patient.
4. Discuss hemorrhage control techniques when clinical resources are limited.
5. Critique the multidisciplinary course of care for injured patients.
6. Discuss how intoxicants including alcohol and methamphetamines affect patient assessment.
7. Identify techniques to maintain staff safety when caring for the intoxicated patient.
8. Discuss crime in the Sioux Falls area and how it impacts the medical community.
9. Describe the logistics of emergency management services in Sioux Falls.
10. Identify partners and resources available to the community members who have sustained a traumatic injury.
11. Describe how to recognize life-threatening bleeding.
12. Explain the process of moving the injured patient through the military healthcare system.
13. Discuss the possibility of translating military best practices throughout the Avera system and South Dakota trauma system
14. Demonstrate appropriate options to stop the bleeding including holding direct pressure, packing the wound and application of a tourniquet.
15. Identify the diagnostic features of pediatric shock and distinguish between various types based on key features, vital sign abnormalities, age-specific blood pressure ranges, and techniques for assessing end-organ perfusion such as capillary refill, mental status, and urine output.
16. Understand the emergency department evaluation and initial management of a child with suspected shock consistent with current guidelines to facilitate early recognition and time-sensitive interventions, including obtaining cultures first, administering antimicrobial therapy, fluid resuscitation within 1 hour, vasopressor use, and adequate vascular access.
17. Review ongoing management of pediatric septic shock in the critical care setting, including indications for rapid, bolus fluid resuscitation versus vasoactive medications after fluid refractory shock develops, goals for perfusion pressure and oxygenation, and techniques to monitor response to interventions.
18. Identify common orthopedic traumatic injuries.
19. Discuss appropriate care to provide with common orthopedic traumatic injuries.

In support of improving patient care, Avera is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Credit Designations:

	This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 IPCE credits for learning and change.
	Medicine CME:  Avera designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.  It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
	Nurse CE: Avera designates this activity for a maximum of 6.0 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
	Nursing Facility Administrator: Avera is an approved provider of continuing education for South Dakota through the South Dakota Board of Nursing Facility Administrators. This educational activity is approved for 6.00 hour(s) for nursing facility administrators.
	MN EMS: This education qualifies as Continuing Education, LCCR, or ICCR in the State of Minnesota. EMTs will receive 6.00 continuing education credit(s) for participating in this course.
	SD EMS: This training has been approved by the SD Dept. of Health for EMS continuing education. EMTs will receive 6.00 continuing education credit(s) for participating in this course.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Avera adheres to the Joint Accreditation’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

Individuals in a position to control the content of this CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All of the relevant financial relationships listed below have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Exhibitors will be onsite for the conference.  Please visit them  for information.

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