Dr. Sajjad Yacoob, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
Communication: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
Provide insight on how to identify common issues that hinder communication between healthcare providers; Identify best practices as it relates to electronic documentation and offer techniques to improve communications, documentation and patient outcomes.
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Mary De Los Reyes, RN, JD, CPHRM
Director, Risk Management & Patient Safety
Risk Management: RISK, it’s not just a game!
Provide the necessary tools to identify high risk areas related to trauma patient care and trauma documentation; Implement best practices elated to risk management in the trauma population.
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Dr. Bill Mason, MD
Chair – Quality Committee
Process Improvement: PIPS This
Discuss the PIPS Process; Identify current practices related to process improvement and patient safety. Attendees will be able to understand and implement a trauma related PIPS process.
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Dr. Karen Myung, MD
Board Certified Orthopedist
Playground and Wheeled Injuries: When playing goes bad!
Identify the top mechanisms of injury in the pediatric demographic; Discuss evidence based best practices related to initial treatment. Attendees will be able to implement current best care practices in the pre-hospital or acute care settings.
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Dr. Mark Krieger, MD
Board Certified Neurosurgeon
Head Trauma: And you think you have a headache?
Identify pre-hospital pediatric mechanism for traumatic head injuries and evidenced based best practice for pre-hospital and acute care for pediatric hand trauma. Conference participants will be able to implement best practices related to pediatric head injury in their respective clinical areas.
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Dr. Peter Grossman, MD
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Burns: Not just a Simpson’s character
Identify and describe the “rules of nines” to make initial estimate of burn extent and the principles of management of pediatric burns caused by heat, electrical or chemical agents; Explain the difference between 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Learners will be able to apply evidence based best practices related to burn care.
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Dr. Karen Kay Imagawa, MD
CARES Team Director
Intentional Trauma: Bad things done to good kids
Discussion of pre-hospital indicators that indicate the possibility of intentional trauma and intervention requirements; Identify common documentation and evidence collecting errors and best practice opportunities to minimize risk management issues. Conference attendees will be able to utilize evidence based best practices and legal requirements in identifying, documenting and treating patients with intentional trauma.
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Dr. Skip Rizzo, PhD
Researcher, Informatics
Psychological Trauma: Did that really happen?
Discuss the emerging importance of virtual reality applications used for exposure therapy with PTSD following: 1) Vietnam combat exposure, 2) Iraq/Afghanistan combat exposure, 3) World Trade Center trauma. Conference attendees will be able to utilize virtual reality approaches to enact best practices and improve educational opportunities. The exposure model and how it is applied with the above populations will be presented in a clear and detailed fashion with some conjecture about how this might be done with children.
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