Harvard Emergency Medicine – Updates & Current Practices 2024 (Videos + Slides)

2024 Emergency Medicine- Updates & Current Practices
Course Overview
The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine offers this one-week postgraduate course for local, national, and international emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs. This five-day course will cover a vast array of topics, including:

Acute Compartment Syndromes
Acute Ischemic Stroke: Tenecteplase, Expanded Treatment Windows, and Other Updates
Addressing Burnout in Emergency Medicine
Antimicrobial Stewardship Pearls
Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
ARDS
BURNS
Cardiac Arrest
Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
Code ICH! The First Hours of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Management
Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
Critical Care Toxicology
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
Echo in Shock
Emergency Preparedness
Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
Eye Emergencies
Geriatric Agitation in the ED: Differentiating and Managing Dementia and Delirium
Geriatric Emergency Departments: Is that a thing? History, Concept and Evolving Evidence
Geriatric Trauma and Falls
Hand Injuries: How would You treat them; Case-Based Updates
High Altitude Illness
Mild Head Trauma
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Pediatric Head Trauma/Concussion
Point-of Care Ultrasound
Priapism Management
Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
Sepsis Updates
Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
Spine Trauma
STIs
Substance Use Disorder in the ED
The Crashing Neonate
Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation
Vasopressors & Shock Pearls

This interactive course will include didactic presentations, Q&A, review of cases, problem solving and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting.
2024 Agenda
All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.

TIME
PRESENTATION/PRESENTER

Monday, 04/08/2024

9:00 am – 9:40 am
Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: The Basics
Toby Nagurney MD

9:40 am – 10:20 am
The Digital Transformation of Emergency Medicine
Jared Conley MD PhD MPH

10:40 am – 11:20 am
Geriatric Falls
Shan Liu MD

11:20 am – 12:00 pm
Eye Emergencies
David Peak MD

1:00 pm – 1:40 pm
Emergency Medicine Burnout
Josh Baugh MD

1:40 pm – 2:20 pm
Advances in the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death
Keith Marill MD

2:40 pm – 3:20 pm
Acute Compartment Syndromes
David Peak MD

3:20 pm – 4:00 pm
Hand Emergencies
Dana Stearns MD

Tuesday, 04/09/2024

9:00 am – 9:40 am
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Suzanne Leslie MD

9:40 am – 10:20 am
Code ICH: The first hours of intracerebral hemorrhage
Josh Goldstein MD

10:40 am – 11:20 am
Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
Jonathan Sonis MD

11:20 am – 12:00 pm
Emergency Preparedness
Paul Biddinger MD

1:00 pm – 1:40 pm
Pediatric Trauma & Concussion
Ari Cohen MD

1:40 pm – 2:20 pm
Priapism Management
Andrew Eyre MD

2:40 pm – 3:20 pm
Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
Drew Reisner MD

3:20 pm – 4:00 pm
Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
Drew Reisner MD

Wednesday, 04/10/2024

9:00 am – 9:40 am
POCUS – Procedures – peripheral IV & Lumbar Puncture
Calvin Huang MD MPH

9:40 am – 10:20 am
POCUS – eFAST
Nour Al Jalbout MD

10:20 am – 10:40 am
BREAK

10:40 am – 11:20 am
POCUS – Cardiac & Lung
David L. Chu MD

11:20 am – 12:00 pm
POCUS – Pediatric Cases
Sigmund Kharasch MD

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
LUNCH

1:00 pm – 1:40 pm
Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
Ben White MD

1:40 pm – 2:20 pm
Virtual Observation: Lessons Learned From Redefining The Walls of the ED
Ben White MD

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm
BREAK

2:40 pm – 3:20 pm
Neonatal Resuscitation
Nicole Nadeau MD and Maggie Samuels-Kalow MD

3:20 pm – 4:00 pm
Sepsis Updates
Michael Filbin MD

Thursday, 04/11/2024

9:00 am – 9:40 am
Burns
Rob Sheridan MD

9:40 am – 10:20 am
Considerations in Anticoagulation Reversal
Lanting Fuh RPH

10:20 am – 10:40 am
BREAK

10:40 am – 11:20 am
ARDS
Peter Hou MD

11:20 am – 12:00 pm
Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
Paul Jansson MD

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
LUNCH

1:00 pm – 1:40 pm
Mild Head Trauma
Pierre Borczuk MD

1:40 pm – 2:20 pm
Updates in Ischemic Stroke
Kori Zachrison MD

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm
BREAK

2:40 pm – 3:20 pm
Cardiac Arrest
Sean Kivlehan MD MPH

3:20 pm – 4:00 pm
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Donna Felsenstein MD

Friday, 04/12/2024

9:00 am – 9:40 am
Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
Rama Salhi MD

9:40 am – 10:20 am
Physiologically Difficult Airway Cases
Derek Monette MD

10:20 am – 10:40 am
BREAK

10:40 am – 11:20 am
Fever POCUS Algorithm
Hamid Shokoohi MD

11:20 am – 12:00 pm
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
Dan Egan MD

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
LUNCH

1:00 pm – 1:40 pm
5 Tests to Consider Avoiding in Your PEM Patients: Why It’s Good for You And Good for Them
Nicole Nadeau MD

1:40 pm – 2:20 pm
Managing Critically Ill Patients with Septic Shock
Hamid Shokoohi MD

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm
BREAK

2:40 pm – 3:20 pm
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
Chris Kabrhel MD

3:20 pm – 4:00 pm
Scaling Humanitarian Aid, from Ebola to Ukraine
Jarone Lee MD