They're little, not little people, but they have big issues: Pediatric Care

Lana Helton-Clark, RN, BSN, CPN, CPEN, EMT-P

Lana has been involved in Emergency Medical Services for 21 years. Lana started her career with the Memphis Fire Department where she spent eight years as a Paramedic Firefighter. During this time she went back to school to complete a Bachelors degree in Nursing. Lana has worked in a variety of settings as nurse over the past fourteen years including Trauma Intensive Care at The Regional Medical Center, CVICU, and adult ED. Lana has been a Pediatric nurse at Le Bonheur for 13 years and serves as a Patient Care Coordinator for the 58 bed ED which serves 75,000 children per year. She is the Supervisor for the EDT program and manages 42 direct reports. Lana has been an active member of TN-TF 1 since 2005 as a Medical Specialist and has participated in three deployments. Lana also serves as a Pediatric consultant for Memphis Fire Department Paramedic program. Other instructional background includes, PALS, ACLS, PEPP, ITLS, and Director for TNCC.

Pulmonary Edema or Pneumonia: The Classic EMS Diagnosis

Steven Kanarian

EMT’s and paramedics respond frequently to calls for difficulty breathing in patients with multiple medical problems. A differential diagnosis of pulmonary edema vs. pneumonia requires an accurate history of present illness, detailed physical exam and an understanding of the physiologic differences of respiratory disease. In this lecture Steven Kanarian will review the elements of a history of present illness physical exam, physiologic problems of pulmonary edema and pneumonia and the key differences in these diseases. This session will improve the field diagnostic abilities of EMTs and paramedics. Both new and experienced providers will have stronger assessment and diagnostic knowledge and skills upon completion of this seminar.

Clinical Applications of Waveform Capnography

Richard Belle, BS, NREMT-P

Richard Belle, a native of New Orleans, LA, began his EMS career in 1996. He has worked throughout south Louisiana as a field medic, new employee preceptor, student preceptor, and flight medic. He has been actively involved in EMS education since 1998. In 2003 he accepted the position of Education Coordinator for Acadian Ambulance’s southeast Louisiana region. He is a cofounder of the National EMS Academy and served as Lead Faculty at the National EMS Academy Houma, LA Campus. Currently, Richard serves as Continuing Education Manager for the Acadian Companies where he is tasked with developing, implementing, and tracking training for the Acadian Companies medical, support, and leadership staff of nearly 3,000 employees. He is also the director of Online NEMSA, an online learning management system and continuing education division of the Acadian Companies.

Stroke: Ischemic v. Hemorrhagic - A General Overview

Adam S. Arthur, MD Dr. Arthur attended the University of Virginia, where he joined the University of Virginia, Department of Neurosurgery, performing research on aneurysms and cerebral vasospasm. He continued this research throughout medical school, obtaining his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1998. He then did his internship and residency at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. While there he also completed a Masters in Public Health. He is one of a few neurosurgeons in the country to practice in both open cerebrovascular surgery and endovascular neurosurgery. He has a strong interest in managing neurovascular disease in both healthy and very sick patients and is Director of the Neurovascular Center at Methodist University Hospital.

Are you looking forward to an excellent TEMSEA conference in 2011. Right now you can go to www.tnemsea.com and prepare yourself for the excellent program that has been put together. This years conference has return speakers from around the state and some from around the county. In addition to the excellent speakers that have presented for TEMSEA before, the organization has added some outstanding speakers to the program outline.

This year's conference brochure include a retired Lieutenant from FDNY and a founding member of Tennessee Task Force 1.

Furthermore, this year's conference offers a 2-day post conference course from the NAEMSE organization. This two-day postcon program will present advanced EMS educational techniques. The recently rolled out NAEMSE level II instructor course has been receiving great press and returning excellent results!

Go to www.tnemsea.com to receive more information and to nominate your colleagues for award to be presented during the annual banquet. We look forward to seeing you there!!!