UC Davis Emergency Medicine Conference

Key Topics

• An approach that is safest and most effective for definitive airway management
• Proper equipment for difficult airway management
• Surgical airway in a can’t oxygenate, can’t ventilate, can’t intubate situation
• Extraglottic devices for oxygenation of patients
• Emerging guidelines and novel testing strategies to differentiate children with serious bacterial illness from children with benign viral syndromes
• Recommended ultrasound techniques at the bedside to identify reversible etiologies of pain, hemodynamic instability, and shock. Interpret point of care US images and integrate findings into medical decision making
• Sepsis and care of the septic patient is evolving
• Chest pain
• Diagnosis and disposition in pediatric patients with dizziness

Who should Attend

Emergency medicine health care professionals, physicians and allied health professionals.