Pre-Conference Workshop

Resuscitation Officer Program

Primary Presenter(s)

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  David Hiltz, n/a

  Director of Innovation
  Code One Training Solutions

Presenter(s)

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  Tom Aufderheide, MD

  Professor of Emergency Medicine
  Medical College of Wisconsin
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  Bridgid Joseph, BSN, MSN, CCNS

  Director Emergency Cardiac Care
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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  Vinay Nadkarni, MD, MS

  Endowed Chair of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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  Ed Stapelton, AAS, EMT-P, Program Chair

  Director of Prehospital Education
  Stony Brook University School of Medicine

This 8-hour certificate program is designed to prepare physicians, nurses and allied healthcare professionals to organize and implement cardiac arrest guidelines, innovations and best practices aimed at improving outcomes from cardiac arrests that occur in the hospital setting. Focus areas include code committee and code team organization, process improvement, emergency ultrasound, targeted temperature management, post resuscitation PCI, ECMO, high-quality training, mock codes, comprehensive CQI and more! A “must” program for Code Committee Chairs, Members and Code Team Responders.

Pre-Conference workshops require registration and fees in addition to the full conference.

Learning Objectives:

• List and describe three (3) components of a high quality collaborative cardiovascular and resuscitation program in a dispatch, EMS and / or healthcare system that has demonstrated improvement in survival from SCA.
• List and describe three (3) strategies for implementing data collection and quality improvement programs in an ECC system to support accountability and reporting.
• Describe three (3) strategies for implementing effective support systems for cardiac arrest victims, survivors and their families and rescuers.