Clinical Procedure Workshops
There are a variety of workshops available at the Emergency & Urgent Care conference in San Diego. For details about these workshops, download our .pdf or review the information below.
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
1:10 Instructor-Participant Ratio
Spaces Limited
Course Length: 4 Hours (4 Credits)
Proper evaluation and management of wounds is critical to ensuring positive patient outcomes. This case-based course is designed to increase the participant's scope-of-practice in managing acute traumatic wounds as they present in the outpatient setting. Improve patient care and your value to your practice with essential procedural skills by exploring common, but potentially problematic, cases from presentation to follow-up including: aseptic technique, proper use of skin adhesives and alternate wound closure techniques, basic suturing, how to properly assess and manage common wounds including simple lacerations, abrasions, avulsions, bites and puncture wounds. incision and drainage of abscesses, felon and paronychia management, nail trephination, local and regional anesthesia techniques and appropriate antibiotic therapies.
Upon the completion of this hands-on workshop, participants should be able to:
- Evaluate common acute traumatic injuries as they present in the outpatient setting.
- Determine appropriate treatment and management of complex abscesses.
- Diagnose and manage subungual hematomas, paronychias, ingrown nails, and felons.
- Assess and repair simple lacerations using aseptic technique and a variety of closure methods.
- Explain proper antibiotic indications, tetanus prophylaxis, rabies prophylaxis and instruct the patient in appropriate post-procedural care.
- Properly assess acute traumatic wounds in order to determine. proper management, referrals and follow-up.
- Choose appropriate wound management materials and equipment.
- Apply understanding of anesthetic agent indications and actions in choosing appropriate procedural analgesia.
- Apply a variety of procedural anesthetic techniques: field block, digital block, local & regional anesthesia.
- Determine appropriate suture techniques according to wound and patient characteristics.
- Demonstrate a variety of essential percutaneous suture technique.
- Demonstrate proper intradermal suture technique.
- Demonstrate alternate methods of acute wound management for non-suturable wounds including skin adhesives.
Thursday, October 24, 2019, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
1:10 Instructor-Participant Ratio
Spaces Limited
Course Length: 4 Hours (4 Credits)
Many “complex” traumatic wounds are referred to specialists either unnecessarily or prematurely - or simply repaired improperly. This case-based course is designed to increase the participant’s scope-of-practice in managing complicated acute traumatic wounds. By exploring common, but frequently problematic, cases from injury and management to post-repair follow-up, participants will learn specialized repair techniques that will improve patient outcomes. This advanced wound management course is designed for participants who are already competent in basic wound repair techniques and seek to elevate their skill set to the next level.
Upon the completion of this hands-on workshop, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate multilayer cosmetic wound closure techniques.
- Apply important pearls and ‘tricks-of-the–trade’ to improve wound closure outcomes.
- Properly apply general and loose closure techniques.
- Discuss anesthesia techniques for various types of traumatic wounds.
- Apply methods of proper anatomic boarder alignment.
- Demonstrate appropriate wound excision and debridement techniques.
- Explain concepts and applications of delayed primary repair.
- Demonstrate management and repair of single and multiple flap lacerations.
- Demonstrate management and repair complex parallel lacerations.
- Manage a variety of fingertip injuries including distal tip amputations and nail bed lacerations.
- Evaluate and manage finger extensor tendon lacerations.
- Identify and prevent complications associate with complex nasal lacerations.
- Properly manage complex nasal lacerations.
- Identify and prevent complications associate with complex ear and cheek lacerations.
- Demonstrate methods of evaluating critical cheek anatomy.
- Properly manage earlobe and helix repair.
- Perform dog-ear deformity repair.
Friday, October 25, 2019, 1:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Spaces Limited
Course Length: 2 Hours (2 Credits)
This ECG workshop is designed to clarify, review, and augment the training and understanding of clinicians in the field of electrocardiogram interpretation. ECG interpretation remains an effective and low-cost diagnostic tool, yet the utility of the ECG is limited by clinician training, experience, and interpretation skill. This course focuses on clarifying key ECG principals and practical interpretation skills relevant for clinical practice - particularly for those in primary care, acute care and emergency settings. This activity will promote improved patient outcomes in a wide range of therapeutic areas encountered by clinicians — from chest pain to syncope, from tachycardia to possible medication toxicity.
Upon the completion of this hands-on workshop, participants should be able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of ECG pattern recognition: rates, rhythm, axis (QRS vectors), blocks (interval lengths), etc.
- Identify and prevent complications associate with complex ear and cheek lacerations.
- Understand a systematic ECG interpretation process that may be utilized with each ECG encountered.
- Identify ECG abnormalities that are associated with cardiac conditions that should prompt provider action, including a better understanding of acute management interventions they require.
Friday, October 25, 2019, 1:45 pm – 5:45 pm
1:10 Instructor-Participant Ratio
Spaces Limited
Course Length: 4 Hours (4 Credits)
Every emergency/urgent care/remote provider should have solid ENT and dental emergency management skills, yet there are limited opportunities to develop skills through hands-on learning. This is a case-based workshop that will work through the diagnosis, management, pearls, and pitfalls of managing common ENT and dental emergencies commonly presenting to the concerned providers. Participants will work with tools, techniques and tricks of the trade to develop the skills required to perform the most essential emergency dental and ENT procedures.
Upon the completion of this hands-on workshop, participants should be able to:
- Control anterior epistaxis with a variety of nasal packing techniques and newer epistaxis products.
- Assess and manage dental and peritonsilar abscesses.
- Manage simple dental trauma through the use of various dental blocks, fillers, manipulation, re-implantation and splinting.
- Evaluate and manage or appropriately refer soft palate injuries.
- Apply a variety of techniques in managing nasal and ear foreign bodies.
- Perform auricular regional anesthesia nerve blocks.
- Appropriately manage auricular hematomas.
- Appropriately manage nasal septal hematomas.
- Perform indirect laryngoscopy.
- Manage complex ear lacerations, including those with cartilage involvement.