Joe Nemeth
Track Chair
Dr. Nemeth completed his training in the US and Europe in Emergency Medicine. He has been at the McGill University Health Center since 2001. He divides his time between paediatric and adult EM and trauma. He is also the Fellowship director for the TTL and General EM fellowships.
Dan Kim
Vice-Chair
Dr. Daniel Kim is a Clinical Associate Professor and the Point of Care Ultrasound Fellowship Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He practices emergency medicine at Vancouver General Hospital. He is currently the Chair of the CAEP Emergency Ultrasound Committee. His interests include point of care ultrasound, medical education, and strategies to make emergency medicine easier.
Erika Maxwell
Learner Lead
Monday, May 29th
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Learning objectives:
- Identify appropriate use cases for analgesic adjuncts for acute pain management in the emergency department
- Describe the mechanism of action, potential adverse effects, contraindications and logistical considerations for giving ketamine, lidocaine, and magnesium for analgesia
- Provide recommendations for dosing and routes of administration for analgesia adjuncts in the emergency department
Speakers:
Adrianna Rowe, MD, FRCPC
Fraser Kegel
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Learning objectives:
- Educate on the pathophysiology of SCI and chronic autonomic changes.
- Bring awareness to SCI acute medical issues
- Discuss the management principles of autonomic Dysreflexia in SCI
Speakers:
Alun Ackery, MD MSc
Andrei Krassioukov, MD PhD
9:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Learning objectives:
- By the end of this session participants will be able to identify and implement into their practice tools for challenging patient communication as well as apply a step-wise approach to de-escalating an aggressive patient.
- Be able to implement strategies around management of expectations around goals of care conversations
- Have a framework for delivery of bad news in the hectic ED environment
Speakers:
Erin O'Connor, MSc MD FRCPC
Lisa Fischer, FRCP EM
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Learning objectives:
- To discuss the five most important articles recently published regarding geriatric emergency medicine.
- To enumerate the adaptation of care in relation to the five articles.
- To understand the gap in practice or literature filled by these articles.
Speakers:
Marcel Émond, MD, MSc, CCMF(MU), FRCP(C)
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Learning objectives:
- To review the latest evidence for managing paediatric patients in Emergency Departments.
Speakers:
April Jacqueline Kam
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Learning objectives:
- Integrate evidence from the top 5 POCUS papers of 2022 into clinical practice to ensure participants are using POCUS in an evidence-informed manner
Speakers:
Daniel Kim, MD FRCPC DRCPSC
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Learning objectives:
- Identify the scholarly work they are already doing.
- Apply the skills learned in today's workshop to produce at least one scholarly project.
Speakers:
Hans Rosenberg, MD CCFP-EM
Jason Frank
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Learning objectives:
- Understand the role the ultrasound program director plays
- Learn the importance of machine maintenance and QA
- Integrate simulation into your ultrasound training and how to spread the gospel of emergency ultrasound
Speakers:
Tom Jelic
Colin Bell, FRCPC, DRCPSC POCUS
Tuesday, May 30th
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Learning objectives:
- For participants to critically review their current trauma resuscitation pathways and consider changes in communication, CT utilization and QI project.
Speakers:
Johannes von Vopelius-Feldt, MSc PhD DipIMC FRCEM FRCPC
9:30 AM - 10:05 AM
Learning objectives:
- Discuss the challenges of managing the significantly injured adolescent and explore their proper trajectory from the scene (adult or pediatric trauma center)
Speakers:
Joe Nemeth, CCFP EM FCFP
Andrei Krassioukov, MD PhD
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM
Learning objectives:
- At the end of the presentation participants will: Have a greater appreciation for the importance of their team in the ED.
- Gain the perspective that mistakes and poor patient outcomes will happen.
- List 3 strategies for navigating an adverse patient outcome in EM practice.
Speakers:
Rob Woods, MD FRCPC DRCPSC
Jonathan Sherbino
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Learning objectives:
- What do you need to start providing ED regional anesthesia?
- Safety issues: What do you need for your block?
- Choose your block. Easy targets & bank shots.
Speakers:
Colin Bell, FRCPC, DRCPSC POCUS
1:50 PM - 2:05 PM
Learning objectives:
- Recognize that Resuscitative TEE (ResusTEE) can effectively identify arrest etiology and direct important changes in management of cardiac arrest patients.
- Interpret images from a simple 4-view ResusTEE protocol that is analogous to conventional transthoracic cardiac POCUS.
- Appraise recent literature pertaining to the utility and safety of ResusTEE in the ED.
Speakers:
Rajiv Thavanathan, MD FRCPC
2:05 PM - 2:20 PM
Learning objectives:
- Participants will be able to explain the difference between STEMI and Occlusion MI, and the concept of STEMI(-)OMI
- Participants will be able to explain how to identify inferior OMI, posterior OMI, and OMI in the presnce of LBBB/paced rhythm
Speakers:
Jesse McLaren, MD, MD
2:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Learning objectives:
- Attendees will be introduced to the landscape and evolution of Emergency Medicine Airway Guidelines
- Attendees will learn an approach to managing the difficult airway in the unconscious patient
- Attendees will learn an approach to avoiding unintended esophageal intubation
Speakers:
George Kovacs, MD MHPE FRCP
2:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Speakers:
Justin W. Yan, MD, MSc
Branka Vujcic
Britney Le, MSc
Kristine Van Aarsen
Tom Chen
Fardowsa Halane, BKin (Hon)
Kristin K. Clemens, MD, MSc
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Learning objectives:
- Identify the top 5 diagnostic issues in Emergency Medicine.
- Describe 2 strategies to mitigate risk associated with diagnostic uncertainty.
- Appreciate the importance of shared-decision making discussions and documentation when dealing with diagnostic uncertainty.
Speakers:
Eileen Bridges, MD
Jennifer Clara Tang
Shirley Lee, MD MHSc(Ed) CCFP(EM) FCFP
4:20 PM - 4:35 PM
Learning objectives:
- To understand and describe the 'social admission' and older adults who present with non-specific complaints in the ED.
- To recognize the complexity of the clinical presentations of this population and how they are different from younger adult populations in the ED.
- To describe an adaptive approach to this patient population that might improve health outcomes in the ED.
Speakers:
Kayla Furlong, MD MSc CCFP
Chris PAUL Patey, Christopher Patey MD
4:35 PM - 4:50 PM
Learning objectives:
- Name the most common mistakes of ER physicians while prescribing medication for older patients
- Improve your prescription practice for pain and nausea management of older adults in the ED
- Manage adequately agitation, caused by delirium and other causes
Speakers:
Marie-Pier Lanoue
Wednesday, May 31st
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM
Speakers:
Jaspreet K. Khangura
Rhonda Rosychuk
Silvia Ortiz, MSc
Ivy Cheng, MD MSc PhD FRCP FACEM dABEM DipSM DiMM
Iwona Bielska, PhD
Justin W. Yan, MD, MSc
Laurie Morrison
Jake Hayward, MD, MSc
Lars Grant
Corinne Hohl
11:10 PM - 11:25 PM
Learning objectives:
- Case based presentation on pediatric cardiac emergencies in the ED with a focus on what ECG's are abnormal vs normal variants in pediatric patients.
- Important ECG patterns in specific pediatric cardiac conditions.
Speakers:
Maxim Ben-Yakov, MDCM, FRCP (EM,PEM)
Gurinder Sangha, MD, FRCPC
11:25 PM - 12:00 PM
Learning objectives:
- Understand the role of high-flow oxygen therapy in bronchiolitis
- List treatment options and nuances across the age continuum in bronchiolitis.
- Appreciate the changing epidemiology of this year's unique bronchiolitis season.
Speakers:
Rini Jain, MD FRCPC
Suzanne Schuh, M.D.
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Learning objectives:
- Describe clinical decision aids available to exclude PE in peripartum patients.
- Describe the work-up and management of a patient with peripartum cardiomyopathy.
- Be aware of rare, but increasing, causes of peripartum shortness of breath, including macrovascular complications of peripartum hypertension.
Speakers:
Catherine Varner
Monday, May 29th
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Learning objectives:
- Identify appropriate use cases for analgesic adjuncts for acute pain management in the emergency department
- Describe the mechanism of action, potential adverse effects, contraindications and logistical considerations for giving ketamine, lidocaine, and magnesium for analgesia
- Provide recommendations for dosing and routes of administration for analgesia adjuncts in the emergency department
Speakers:
Adrianna Rowe, MD, FRCPC
Fraser Kegel
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Learning objectives:
- Educate on the pathophysiology of SCI and chronic autonomic changes.
- Bring awareness to SCI acute medical issues
- Discuss the management principles of autonomic Dysreflexia in SCI
Speakers:
Alun Ackery, MD MSc
Andrei Krassioukov, MD PhD
9:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Learning objectives:
- By the end of this session participants will be able to identify and implement into their practice tools for challenging patient communication as well as apply a step-wise approach to de-escalating an aggressive patient.
- Be able to implement strategies around management of expectations around goals of care conversations
- Have a framework for delivery of bad news in the hectic ED environment
Speakers:
Erin O'Connor, MSc MD FRCPC
Lisa Fischer, FRCP EM