2 www.oregonemsconference.com Greetings from the Oregon EMS Conference Committee 2010 is shaping up to be quite the year for new events both locally and nationally. We’ve seen a number of high profile fire service management personnel within our state retire or change positions this year. We’ve seen Medicare (or should I say CMS) reimbursements go down and up in a few short months and we’ve seen historic disasters at home and around the Oregon EMS world. Conference 2010 And now your Oregon EMS Conference is having a number of “firsts” in Excellence in Education 2010. CONFERENCE LOCATION For the first time Salem, the State Capital, will be the host of The Oregon Salem Conference Center EMS Conference. The Salem Conference Center is shaping up to be a 200 Commercial St SE great facility to host what is the largest EMS Conference in Oregon. For that Salem, OR 97301 matter we are the only centralized EMS conference on the West Coast. www.salemconferencecenter.org Another first is our keynote speaker, Randolph Mantooth, (Johnny Gage The Grand Hotel (attached to the from the show Emergency), who will be making his debut for the first time. Salem Conference Center) Randolph’s character Johnny Gage and his partner Roy DeSoto (played www.phoenixgrandhotel.com by Kevin Tighe) were the motivation for thousands of folks to become 877-540-7800 (Say you are with paramedics and enter the world of EMS. While these actors played the role, the Oregon EMS Conference) it was really Jame’s Page the Grandfather of EMS that was the nuclei for the movement of pre-hospital care as we know it today. Jim’s knowledge Room rates are available until led this show to portray pre-hospital providers as never shown before. Tuesday, September 10, 2010. Randolph Mantooth’s speaking engagement at the conference is being Room Rates: sponsored by a substantial contribution from Life Flight Network. Please $119 - two queen beds or king join the committee in thanking Life Flight Network for making this possible. $129 - double rate And finally we are having our first Cadaver Lab. The conference committee has been trying for years to host one of these educational opportunities and all the elements have finally come together in Salem to allow us to Cover Artist Michael T. Gilbert bring you this excellent training opportunity. Class size will be limited but Over the years Michael’s those involved will see firsthand how the treatments you practice enter written or drawn comics starring Superman, Batman, Dr. the human body. Students will be able to perform skills they’ve only been Strange, Elric, and the Disney able to do previously on manikins. There are many agencies that are owed characters. But his signature a huge thank you for their work for bringing this to you. Thanks to the creation remains his fearless monster-fighting superhero, Oregon Health & Science University Hospital and Salem Hospital for their Doc Stearn … Mr. Monster! partnership in bringing you this opportunity. Additionally, Mr. Monster also hosts “Mr. Monster’s Comic Salem and the surrounding area have lots to offer both you and your guest Crypt,” a monthly column for all sorts of entertainment. Personnel will be available at the registration devoted to comic book history for Alter Ego magazine. A table to help you pick one of the many events to experience while you’re in published comic book artist town. since 1973, Michael has also designed t-shirts, TV graphics Thank you for everything you do on a daily basis and for your support and gruesome tattoos. Those in making our conference such a success. I hope to see you during the interested in commissioning art can contact him at: conference and remember as always, [email protected] He currently lives in rain- Play safe, train hard, and keep an eye on your partner, drenched Oregon with his wife, Oregon EMS Conference Committee Chair Janet ––and the huge, festering pile of pulp he laughingly calls his comic book collection! Dave Lapof www.oregonemsconference.com 3 American Medical Response Northwest Patient Focused • Customer Centered • Caregiver Inspired Join Our Team • Advanced Life Support 9-1-1 Provider in Multnomah, Clackamas and Josephine Counties • Basic Life Support “Employment Opportunities for • Critical Care Transport EMT First Responders, Basic, • Community Education Intermediate and Paramedic” • Mobile Health Care • National Disaster Response Team AMR is the nation’s leading provider of • Reach and Treat Mountain emergency medical services, medical transportation, Rescue Team and specialized healthcare services. 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One SE 2nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon For employment opportunities please contact Jennifer Stoner at (503) 736-3469 or email [email protected] Visit our website at www.amr.net 4 www.oregonemsconference.com Thursday, October 7 Pre-Conferences at a Glance 0800 - 1200 with Life Flight Network, and REACH Air Pre-Conference ALS Skills Medical Services (repeats at 1300) 0800 - 1200 Cadaver Lab with Dr. Brion Benninger (repeats at 1300) 0800 - 1200 Today’s Preparations Will Determine Tomorrow’s Outcomes with Jeff Rubin ALS Skills 102 Civil Support Team Capabilities Brief with Captain Presenters: Life Flight Network, and Gregg Ramirez REACH Air Medical Services 1300 - 1700 ALS Skills with Life Flight Network, and REACH Air 0800 - 1200 (repeats at 1300) Medical Services (repeat of 0800 session) Hands-on skills session of advanced 1300 - 1700 Cadaver Lab with Dr. Brion Benninger (repeat of 0800 session) skills. Appropriate for Paramedics and RNs. Come refresh your memory of 1300 - 1700 Weapons of Mass Destruction with Mike Verkest advanced airway techniques, needle 0800 - 1700 Assessment & Treatment with Mike Pante & Richard Kalasky decompression, and other life saving interventions. This is your chance to review 1830 - 2130 Interesting and Diverse Case Studies of People high risk, low frequency interventions. Around the Nation and World with Dr. Matt Eschelbach FREE ADMISSION - Open to Public Demonstrating the Anatomical Architecture of Emergency Procedures (Cadaver Lab) and anatomy education for health care was an Asst. Dean and taught a semester- Presenter: Dr. Brion Benninger professionals. Teaches clinical anatomy long Wilderness Medicine class. Jeff 0800 - 1200 (repeats at 1300) to surgical residents, medical, dental, was a participant in the NATO Advanced and allied health students at OHSU. Has Research Workshop on Mass Casualty Using a human cadaver, common edited and authored several texts which Events held in Haifa, Israel, in April 2005 emergency procedures will be include Netters Atlas 5th Edition, Parrot and has participated as a faculty member demonstrated. Attendees will have the vs. the Architect, Visual Human Dissector, at several national and international opportunity for hands-on participation. and a new dissection manual and a head conferences, including many years with Following each specific demonstration, and neck clinical anatomy text due to be the Texas EMS Conference. Jeff is the Co- further dissection will be conducted released in 2011. Has mentored several Chairman of the First Responder Working to support the theory of the subject students and taken 70 clinical anatomy Group under the US Dept. of Homeland technique. Controversies regarding research projects during the last four Security’s Science and Technology these techniques will be discussed. The years to national conferences and sits on Directorate, serving as a clearinghouse following emergency procedures will multiple national committees. for technology requirements and advising be included, but other procedures may be incorporated: Emergency airway DHS on priorities for development. (Cricothyrotomy and Intubation); Carotid Today’s Preparations Will massage; Cardiac massage/resuscitation; Determine Tomorrow’s 102 Civil Support Team Scalene block for upper limb trauma; Outcomes Capabilities Brief Supraclavicular tamponade to control Presenter: Jeff Rubin Presenter: Captain Gregg Ramirez 1100 - 1200 upper limb bleeding; Thoracentesis; 0800 - 1100 Pericardiocentesis; Emergency relief of What kind of earthquake and tsunami The mission of Weapons of Mass tension pneumothorax; Paracentesis; hazards do we face in Oregon and how Destruction Civil Support Teams (WMD- Acute organ trauma; Peripheral venous could they affect us? How can you and CST) is to support local and state access – neck (upper limb, lower limb); your organization prepare for them and authorities at domestic WMD/NBC incident Arterial pulses. Space is limited so what resources are available to assist you? sites by identifying agents and substances, register early! assessing current and projected Recent incidents offer some lessons. Brion Benninger, MD MSc, trained in consequences, advising on response England in surgery and trauma. Also Jeff Rubin has been Tualatin Valley Fire & measures, and assisting with requests for received Masters in Sports Medicine and Rescue’s emergency manager since 2001. additional military support. Before that, he was a Hazardous Materials was Chief Medical Officer for motorcar Gregg Ramirez is currently the Medical Captain in the Special Operations Section and motorbike racing, and physician Operations Officer (Captain) for the 102nd of Austin EMS, also working in mass to National teams. Worked at Queen’s WMD Civil Support Team. He has a BS casualty planning, hazmat/WMD planning Medical Center, Nottingham, England, in Education, and Advanced and Critical and response, and hospital preparedness. busiest emergency room in Europe. Care Paramedic certification. He has Jeff also served as a firefighter and During residency training was mentored been a practicing Paramedic since 1995 company officer with Travis County by Sir Harold Ellis (Surgeon and Clinical beginning at OHSU and was recently the (Texas) ESD#4. Jeff holds a BS from Yale Anatomist). Research interests include Director of Paramedic Education at the clinical anatomy, soft tissue rehabilitation, University, and an MA and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where he Northwest Regional Training Center.