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  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    10:35 AM – 11:00 AM PST
    Innovations in AED Delivery: The 4 Minute City Model
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Benjamin S. Abella, MD MPhil – University of Pennsylvania
    Moderator: Joshua Smith, NRP – Richland Fire & Emergency Services
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    11:00 AM – 11:25 AM PST
    Does the provider of initial defibrillation effect the quality-of-life outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors at one-year post arrest?
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Brian Haskins, PhD – Victoria University
    Moderator: Joshua Smith, NRP – Richland Fire & Emergency Services
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    11:40 AM – 12:05 PM PST
    Resuscitation Academy Germany
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Jan Thorsten Graesner, MD (he/him/his) – University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
    Co-Presenter: Leonie Hannappel, MDM (she/her/hers) – University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
    Moderator: Joshua Smith, NRP – Richland Fire & Emergency Services
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    12:05 PM – 12:30 PM PST
    Resuscitation Academy: A First Time Experience
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Lisa Mills, MD (she/her/hers) – UC Davis Fire Department
    Co-Presenter: Scott A. Hatcher, BS, EMT-P – University of California, Davis Fire Department
    Moderator: Joshua Smith, NRP – Richland Fire & Emergency Services
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    2:55 PM – 3:20 PM PST
    Naloxone in Peri and Full Cardiac Arrest
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Cindy K. Tait, EMT-P, RN, PHN, MPH – Center for Healthcare Education, Inc.
    Moderator: Loralee Olejnik, MA, EMT-B – Not representing current agency
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    3:20 PM – 3:45 PM PST
    Continuing Crisis: What’s New in Treating Opioid Overdoses
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Nathan Charlton, MD – University of Virginia
    Moderator: Loralee Olejnik, MA, EMT-B – Not representing current agency
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PST
    When a pregnant woman has a cardiac arrest, we have 300 seconds to save her life. Every second, every minute, every action by every first responder needs to align perfectly. How prepared are you?
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Mary A. Liner, APRN, CNP – OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
    Moderator: Loralee Olejnik, MA, EMT-B – Not representing current agency
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PST
    Pediatric High Performance CPR: From protocol to training to practice with the introduction of a novel method to improve prehospital pediatric CPR quality
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Karen O'Connell, MD, MEd – Children's National Hospital, Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center; The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
    Moderator: Loralee Olejnik, MA, EMT-B – Not representing current agency
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Thursday, Nov 30th
    4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PST
    Time of Death: The Case of a Pediatric Patient who Defied the Death Evaluation Protocol
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Audra N. Iness, MD, PhD, CCRP – Baylor College of Medicine
    Co-Presenter: Andrea De Jesús Martínez, MD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital
    Co-Presenter: Rachel M. Ausmus, RN, MSN, CPEN – Texas Children's Hospital
    Co-Presenter: Ted Tanner, MD, MPH, MA (he/him/his) – Dayton Children's Hospital and Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
    Moderator: Loralee Olejnik, MA, EMT-B – Not representing current agency
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Friday, Dec 1st
    10:35 AM – 11:00 AM PST
    Emergency Telecommunicators Need Access to a Community AED Registry
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Richard Price – PulsePoint Foundation
    Moderator: Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH – University of Minnesota
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Friday, Dec 1st
    11:00 AM – 11:25 AM PST
    The Power of Multi-Agency Responding - GoodSAM linking Police to Cardiac Arrests
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Mark H. Wilson, PhD MBBChir FRCS MRCA FIMC OBE – Imperial College London
    Co-Presenter: Chris Postill – BCH Police / GoodSAM
    Moderator: Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH – University of Minnesota
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Friday, Dec 1st
    2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PST
    QA/QI Data Collection and Implementation
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Clark Church, NREMT-P FP-C CP-C – Clear Creek EMS
    Moderator: Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH – University of Minnesota
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Friday, Dec 1st
    2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PST
    Outcomes from the Helmsley Charitable Trust Multi-State Law Enforcement AED Project: The Human Stories
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Janet M. Trethewey, EdD, NREMT (she/her/hers) – MT DPHHS EMS TS
    Co-Presenter: Wayne Booze – The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
    Co-Presenter: Marty D. Link, BS/EMT-P – South Dakota Department of Health
    Co-Presenter: Becka Neumiller, Paramedic – NE Dept Health & Human Services
    Moderator: Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH – University of Minnesota
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Friday, Dec 1st
    3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PST
    Naperville Fire - Leading The Way with ACR
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Billy Croft – Naperville Fire Department
    Co-Presenter: Daryl MacDonald – Naperville Fire Department
    Co-Presenter: Phil Giannattasio – Naperville Fire Department
    Moderator: Kimberly K. Harkins, MPH – University of Minnesota
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Friday, Dec 1st
    3:35 PM – 4:00 PM PST
    Double Sequential External Defibrillation for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation- Challenging the Status Quo
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Sheldon Cheskes, MD CCFP (EM) FCFP DRCPSC – University of Toronto
    Moderator: John A. Erbayri, MS, NRP, CHSE (he/him/his) – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Friday, Dec 1st
    4:00 PM – 4:25 PM PST
    Ventilations During Cardiac Resuscitation: The Final Frontier
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Ian Drennan, ACP PhD – University of Toronto
    Moderator: John A. Erbayri, MS, NRP, CHSE (he/him/his) – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Saturday, Dec 2nd
    10:25 AM – 10:50 AM PST
    The Gap and Need for Critical Incident Stress Diffusion (CISD) after a Cardiac Arrest Incident
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Maureen O'Connor, San Diego Project Heart Beat Program Manager – San Diego Fire-Rescue/San Diego Project Heart Beat
    Co-Presenter: Robert Hoadley, MBA – TEAM LIFE, INC.
    Co-Presenter: Tom Farley, BA in Economics – Retired
    Co-Presenter: Kevin Johnstone (he/him/his) – San Diego Fire-Rescue
    Moderator: Keith Griffith
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Saturday, Dec 2nd
    10:50 AM – 11:15 AM PST
    Resiliency for Caretakers: Lessons from the Street
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Ron Gigliotti, NRP – U-Mass Memorial EMS / Worcester EMS, Worcester, MA
    Co-Presenter: Tom Greenhalgh, Jr., LICSW, NRP – National Public Safety Solutions, Inc.
    Moderator: Keith Griffith
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .5
  • Saturday, Dec 2nd
    11:30 AM – 11:45 AM PST
    Act to Save the Most Lives! Impact of focused Education directed at T-CPR and High Performance CPR on lives saved in Charles County, MD
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Kevin G. Seaman, FACEP, FAEMS – Charles County DES, Maryland Resuscitation Academy
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Saturday, Dec 2nd
    11:45 AM – 12:00 PM PST
    “I can’t get him on his back, he’s heavy and in the back seat of the car!” - Increasing T-CPR Rates in Chicago
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Courtney Schwerin (she/her/hers) – Illinois Heart Rescue
    Co-Presenter: Elizabeth Froelich – Illinois Heart Rescue
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25
  • Saturday, Dec 2nd
    12:00 PM – 12:15 PM PST
    The Yorkshire Ambulance Service experience of telephone guided access and utilisation of AED's
    Location: Town and Country Ballroom B
    Primary Presenter: Jason D. Carlyon – Yorkshire Ambulance Service
    Co-Presenter: Helen A. Smith – Yorkshire Ambulance Service
    911, EMS, Fire & Law Enforcement
     CE: .25