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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 LA S VEGAS, NV

OFFICIAL PROGRAM GUIDE

It will change the way you practice.

Hosted by EMS World Expo and NAEMTs PHTLS Committee


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SPECIAL THANKS

We extend our gratitude to the PHTLS Committee for developing the2015 World Trauma Symposium program:

Will Chapleau, EMT-P, RN, CEN, TSNChair

Greg Chapman, BS, EMT-P, RRTVice Chair

Lance Stuke, MDMedical Director

Peter Pons, MDAssociate Medical Director

Michael J. Hunter, EMT-PCommittee Member

Mark Lueder, EMT-PCommittee Member

Larry Hatfield, MS, NREMT-PCommittee Member

Frank Butler, MDMilitary Medical Advisor

Steven Mercer, EMT-P, MEDCommittee Member

We thank the following organizations for their generous support of the Symposium:


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WELCOME

Dear Symposium Attendees,

It is our privilege and honor to welcome you to the 2015 WorldTrauma Symposium. The mission of this Symposium is to bringto the prehospital medical community the very best and latestinformation and practices in prehospital trauma care. Yourparticipation is a testament to your dedication to your patientsand commitment to providing the best trauma care possible.

We have worked hard to meet our mission. This years Symposiumpresents an exceptional line-up of the top experts in trauma carewho will share their expertise and insights with you.

Please take advantage of our continental breakfast, breaks andluncheon to network with colleagues and visit with our selectgroup of sponsors. We hope you enjoy all aspects of the 2015World Trauma Symposium and we welcome your feedback aboutour program and how we may improve it for the future.

Warmest regards,

Lance Stuke, MD, MPH, FACSModerator, 2015 World Trauma SymposiumMedical Director, PHTLS

Will Chapleau, EMT-P, RN, CEN, TSNChair, PHTLS Committee

Lance Stuke, MD,MPH, FACS

Will Chapleau, EMT-P,RN, CEN, TSN



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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

CECBEMS Continuing Education Credit HoursThis continuing education activity is approved by Southcomm Business Media,

LLC., an organization accredited by the Continuing Education Coordinating

Board for Emergency Medical Services (CECBEMS). CECBEMS-approved classes

are accepted by the National Registry of EMTs (NREMT) for recertification

requirements. One CEU is given per one-hour class. Attendees can earn 8 creditsfor the full-day World Trauma Symposium. For questions regarding CECBEMS,

please contact Jay Scott at 972/247-4442 or e-mail [email protected].

Continuing Education Credits for NursesCECH have been applied for with the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association

(ASTNA) for the World Trauma Symposium. If you have questions, call 877/398-

6944 or e-mail [email protected].

AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsThe American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum

of 8.0AMA PRA Categor y 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credi t

commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.LEARNING OBJECTIVES: This activity is designed to meet the continuing

education needs for physicians. Upon completion of this course the participant

will have a greater understanding of the diversity of opinions on best practices

and current trends in prehospital trauma care globally.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT: This activity has been planned and implemented

in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council

for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of

the American College of Surgeons and the National Association of EmergencyMedical Technincians. The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the

ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

DISCLOSURE INFORMATION: In compliance with ACCME Accreditation Criteria,

the American College of Surgeons, as the accredited provider of this activity, must

ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity has

disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. All reported

conflicts are managed by a designated official to ensure a bias-free presentation.

To obtain credit you must have your badge scanned upon entering the session,

spend the required time in the session and turn in a completed course evaluation.

After the conference you will be notified by e-mail when your certificate is available

at EMSWorldExpo.com for download. Safeguard the certificate for future use.

Tactical Combat Casualty Care: only TCCC course endorsed by the AmericanCollege of Surgeons; uses PHTLS military textbook; 16 hours of CECBEMScredit. For MEDICAL military personnel.

NEW! Tactical Combat Casualty Care-All Combatants:8-hour course createdby the Committee on TCCC. Specically for NON-MEDICAL military personnel.

NEW! Tactical Emergency Casualty Care: endorsed by the AmericanCollege of Surgeons; meets TECC guidelines; uses PHTLS military textbook;teaches civilian tactical EMS. 16 hours of CECBEMS credit.

Law Enforcement and First Response Tactical Casualty Care: for all publicsafety rst responders; based on TCCC and PHTLS. 8 hours of CECBEMS credit.

Bleeding Control for the Injured: teaches basic lifesaving medicalinterventions to rst responders and civilians; meets recommendations ofthe Hartford Consensus. 2.5 hours.

Learn more at www.naemt.org/education.

NAEMT Sets The Standard

In Tactical Casualty Care Training

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS



SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

The World Trauma Symposium is located on Level 1, North Hall, Room N110.The Luncheon and Scott Frame Memorial Lecture will be held on Level 2, in Room N245.

7:30 AM Continental Breakfas t

8:00 AM Lance Stuke, MD, MPH, & Will Chapleau, EMT-P, RN, CEN, TSN Welcome andIntroduction

8:10 AM Don Jenkins, MD Defense Health Board Combat Trauma Lessons Learned from MilitaryOperations of 20012013

8:50 AM Christopher Colwell, MD Denver Paramedics and the COMBAT Trial: PlasmaAdministration in the Field

9:20 AM Will Chapleau, EMT-P, RN, CEN, TSN Is there a Place for Backboards in EMS? ADiscussion about Spinal Immobilization Standards

9:50 AM Break

10:10 AM Craig Manifold, MD Pearls and Pitfalls of Prehospital Analgesia

10:40 AM Christoph Woelfl, MD, PhD Human Factors in Preclinical and Clinical Major Trauma Care

11:10 AM Panel Discussion

12:00 PM Lunch

12:45 PM Luncheon Speaker and Scott Frame Memorial Lecture

Jonah Thompson, Team Rubicon USA Mobile Disaster Medical Teams: Experiencesfrom the Philippines and Nepal

1:30 PM Lance Stuke, MD, MPH, & Will Chapleau, EMT-P, RN, CEN, TSN Introduction ofAfternoon Program

1:40 PM John Amoss, MD Concussions in Football: Recognition and Management from the NFL

Perspective 2:15 PM Dave Callaway, MD, FACEP The Challenges of Triage in Dynamic Mass Casualty Incidents

2:45 PM Break

3:05 PM Short Vignette Sessions:

James Manson Improving Survival in Active Shooter Events: It Takes a Village

Mike Hunter, EMT-P Emergency Medical Dispatch: Guiding the Hands of the FirstCaregiver

Lance Stuke, MD, MPH Top Recent Trauma Papers That Could Change Your Practice

Heidi Hotz, RN, BSN Trauma CSI: Using Error Analysis to Identify Opportunities forImprovement

4:15 PM Panel Discussion/Questions from the Audience

4:50 PM Closing Comments

5:00 PM Adjourn


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SPEAKER BIOS

John Amoss, MDTeam Physician, New Orleans Saints,New Orleans, LA

John Amoss, MD,is the team physi-

cian for the NewOrleans Saints,New Orleans, LA.Amoss graduat-ed LSU MedicalSchool in 1991,completed his

LSU Internal Medicine Residency1994 and has been the New OrleansSaints head team internist since2000. He is an associate professorof clinical medicine at LSU HealthSciences Center, New Orleans, andsection chief of hospital medicineat LSU Health Sciences Center, NewOrleans.

David Callaway, MD, FACEPAssociate Professor of EmergencyMedicine, Carolinas Medical Center,Charlotte, NC

David Callaway,

MD, FACEP, is an

associate professorof emergency medi-

cine at Carolinas

Medical Center

in Charlotte, the

regions only Level

I trauma center.

He serves as director of the Division of

Operational and Disaster Medicine and

the Disaster Medicine Fellowship at

Carolinas. Callaway served three years

as an expeditionary physician support-

ing the United States Marine Corpsbefore returning to his training at the

Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine

Residency, Boston, where he served as

chief resident. Callaway has extensive

civilian and military overseas experi-

ence in Iraq, Kuwait, Haiti, Burma, El

Salvador and throughout Africa. He

presently is a voting member of the

Defense Health Board Subcommittee

on Trauma and Injury, cochair of the

Committee for Tactical Emergency

Casualty Care, and a consultant for

the Committee on Tactical Combat

Casualty Care. In 2014 he was electedcivilian vice president of the Special

Operations Medical Association.

Will Chapleau, EMT-P, RN, CEN,TSNChairman, NAEMT PHTLS Committee,Director, Performance ImprovementAmerican College of Surgeon

Will Chapleau

has been chair of

the PreHospital

Trauma Life Support

(PHTLS) Committee

since 1996 and has

served as national

faculty for it since

1984. He has been

a paramedic for 38 years and trauma

nurse specialist for 25. He currently

serves as director of performance

improvement at the American College

of Surgeons. He spent 20 years with

the Chicago Heights Fire Department,the last six as chief, as well as 15 years

as an educator. Chapleau has served

on the NAEMT Board of Directors, as

well as on the boards for the National

Association of EMS Educators and

the Society of Trauma Nurses. He has

written and edited five prehospital care

texts and has taught prehospital care

and lectured at conferences in more

than 50 countries.

Chris Colwell, MDChief, Emergency Medicine, DenverHealth Medical Center, Denver, CODr. Chris Colwell is currently the

Director of Service in the Department

of Emergency Medicine at Denver

Health and Professor and Executive

Vice-Chair in the Department of

Emergency Medicine at the University

of Colorado School

of Medicine. He

took this position

after also serving as

Chief of Emergency

Medicine at DenverHealth for two

years. Dr. Colwell

was born and raised

in San Diego, California and attended

the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

for undergraduate work, then medical

school at Dartmouth Medical School in

Hanover, NH. He completed his resi-

dency training in Emergency Medicine

at Denver Health Medical Center

(formerly Denver General). Since the

year 2000, Dr. Colwell has been activein leadership and management of the

EMS and 911 system of the City and

County of Denver, serving as Medical

Director of the Denver Paramedic

Division (>95,000 medical responses

annually) and Denver Fire Department.

Dr. Colwell also continues to work clin-

ical shifts as the attending physician in

the Emergency Department (annual pa-

tient census ~80,000) at Denver Health

the regional Adult Level I and Pediatric

Level II trauma center that admits more

than trauma 2,300 patients annual-

ly. Dr. Colwell is currently a reviewer

for Western Journal of Emergency

Medicine, Academic Emergency

Medicine, and Section Editor, Trauma,

for UpToDate. He is Executive Director

of the Colorado Prehospital Research

Consortium at Denver Health and has

published more than 30 peer-reviewed

publications, and more than 60 book

chapters, articles, and editorials. Hehas presented extensively on prehos-

pital and emergency care as an invited

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SPEAKER BIOS

Heidi Hotz, RN, BSNTrauma ProgramManager, Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter, Los Angeles,

CAHeidi A. Hotz,

RN, is the trauma

program man-

ager at Cedars-

Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

She is president of the Los Angeles

Association of Trauma Program

Managers; immediate past president

of the American Trauma Society; past

president of the Society of Trauma

Nurses; and past president of the

Trauma Managers Association of

California. She has extensive experi-

ence in all aspects of trauma, including

clinical care, program management,

data, performance improvement and

injury prevention.

Mike Hunter, EMT-PDeputy Chief EMS, UMass Memorial /Worcester EMS

Michael J. Hunter,

a veteran of EMSfor more than 30

years, serves as

the Deputy Chief

/ Communications

Supervisor

for Worcester

EMS at UMass

Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) in

Worcester, Mass. He began more than

22 years prior as a staff Paramedic,

EMS Captain and then into his current

position. Worcester EMS (WEMS) is ahospital-based transport system and

a division of UMMMC, the regions

largest employer, a STEMI Center,

Stroke Center and the regions only

Level 1 Trauma Center. Worcester

EMS is a Paramedic-only system, one

of the states few RSI services and

the 911 EMS providers to the city

of Worcester and neighboring town

of Shrewsbury. Deputy Chief Hunter

is the Communications Supervisor

for UMMMCs Communications

Center which is a Secondary

Public Safety Answering Pointand Emergency Medical Dispatch

Resource for the Communities of

Worcester; Shrewsbury; Leicester

and Westborough, Massachusetts. In

addition, Deputy Chief Hunter provides

direct patient care as a Tactical EMS

provider assigned to the Massachusetts

State Police STOP Team. Deputy Chief

Hunter has long been a member of

NAEMT, active in PHTLS since the

late 1980s, and serves on the PHTLS

Committee. He is an active memberof the PHTLS International Faculty a

professional member of the National

Association of EMS Physicians,

the Special Operations Medical

Association and a charter member of

the International Association of EMS

Chiefs.

Donald Jenkins, MDDirector, Trauma

Center, Mayo Clinic,Rochester, MNDonald Jenkins,

MD, is trauma

medical director for

the Level I trauma

center at Mayo

Clinic, Saint Marys

Hospital, in Rochester, MN, where he

oversees the spectrum of care for all

trauma patients, from prevention and

prehospital care to rehabilitation and

repatriation. He has served as traumadirector for a Level I U.S. Air Force

trauma center and the 44th Medical

Command for all trauma care in Iraq,

as well as helping to develop the Joint

Theater Trauma System for the United

States Central Command and the

Department of Defense.

Craig Manifold, MDEMS MedicalDirector, MultipleAgencies in BexarCounty and South

TexasCraig Manifold

serves as the EMS

medical director for

multiple agencies in

Bexar County and south Texas, includ-

ing San Antonio AirLIFE. He is also an

assistant professor in the Department

of Emergency Health Sciences, School

of Health Professions at the University

of Texas Health Science Center in San

Antonio. He attended the Philadelphia

College of Osteopathic Medicine and

continued his emergency medicine

training with an internship at Wilford

Hall Medical Center and residency

with the Joint Military Medical Centers

Emergency Medicine Residency in San

Antonio. He transitioned to civilian

emergency medicine after serving in

the U.S. Air Force. Manifold presently

serves as chair of the American College

of Emergency Physicians EMS Medical

Directors Committee.

James MansonAssistant Chief Paramedic of Educationand Training, Denver Health ParamedicDivisionJames Manson started his EMS career

in 1983 and during that time has

served as a volunteer and worked in

both rural and urban EMS systems,

including, for the past 26 years, for

the city of Denver. He currently serves

as the assistant chief paramedic ofeducation and training at the Denver

Health Paramedic Division.



SPEAKER BIOS

Lance Stuke, MD, MPHMedical Director,NAEMT PHTLS,Assistant Professorof Surgery,

Louisiana StateUniversity School ofMedicineLance Stuke, MD,

MPH, is Medical

Director of NAEMTs PreHospital

Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) program,

and an assistant professor of surgery

in the Department of Surgery, Division

of Trauma and Critical Care, Louisiana

State University School of Medicine

in New Orleans. He is a trauma sur-

geon at the Spirit of Charity Trauma

Center at University Hospital (formerly

Charity Hospital). Dr. Stuke worked as

a paramedic in New Orleans for eight

years prior to entering medical school.

He earned a Master of Public Health

degree from Tulanes School of Public

Health and Tropical Medicine, with an

emphasis on environmental toxicolo-

gy, and completed his MD degree at

Tulanes School of Medicine. Dr. Stuke

has published numerous peer-reviewed

research papers and written several

textbook chapters on trauma-related

topics.

Jonah Thompson

Pennsylvania Field OperationsCoordinator, Team Rubicon USA

Jonah Thompson

is a paramedic with

over twenty years

of EMS, military,

and government

experience includ-

ing over a decade

in remote settings

in the Middle East,

Central Asia, Africa, Central America,

and Southeast Asia. He is currently

the Pennsylvania Field Operations

Coordinator for Team Rubicon, a veter-

an founded volunteer disaster response

organization, deployed as a disaster

medical assistance team member to

both the Philippine Islands following

Typhoon Haiyan and Nepal after the

earthquake, and is a member of the

2015 Clay Hunt Fellows cohort. Jonah

is a full time community paramedic with

the CONNECT program, based out of

the Center for Emergency Medicine of

Western Pennsylvania.

Christoph Woelfl, MD, PhDChief of Staff of the Department of

Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery,Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, GermanyChristoph Woelfl, MD, is a senior

consultant in trauma and orthopedic

surgery at the University of Heidelberg-

Ludwigshafen Level I trauma center,

one of the biggest Level I trauma units

in Germany. He was the first medical

director of PHTLS Germany, recently

handing the position over to a younger

colleague, and since 2008 has been

the national course director of ATLS

Germany. He is a board member of the

Working Group on Trauma, Intensive

Care and Emergency Medicine of

the German Society of Trauma and

Orthopedic Surgery. He is the chief

of staff of the rescue helicopter unit

Christoph 5in Ludwigshafen. His re-

search and academic interests include

preclinical and clinical trauma care and

osteoporotic fracture healing.


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