Pre-Conference Sessions 2013
Saturday, September 28th
Difficult Airway Course –EMS (2 day course)
Michael Keller, Camden Education
Dennis Taylor, PhD, Camden Education
September 28th and 29th
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Auditorium II
The Difficult Airway Course – EMS is regarded as
a premier educational program in the area of
airway management. This two-day program in
EMS airway management will equip you to
more effectively meet the challenge of
advanced airway management in the field. It is
an immersion style program, emphasizing basic
and advanced airway anatomy and physiology,
basic and advanced airway management
techniques and proven techniques to identifying
airways that pose predictable management
challenges. Curriculum includes review and
discussion of pharmacologic agents used to
attenuate normal physiological response to
airway management, including the latest
evidence based science toward rapid sequence
intubation using sedatives and paralytics.
Additionally, this course provides a hands-on
surgical airway lab utilizing pig trachea for
landmark identification of similar human
anatomy and practical sessions of actual surgical
techniques to gain airway access through the
cricothyroid membrane. There is extensive lab
practice on many different techniques and
approaches to airway management through use
of endotracheal tubes, extraglottic airway
devices, video laryngoscopy and the latest tools
to manage the airways in the prehospital
environment. The course concludes with small
group “Code Airway” sessions which challenge
participants to make proper decisions using the
knowledge they have gained.
*OEMS takes no role or responsibility in the
registration process of this course.
Limited to 3 students per Agency
Course Fee: $350.00
Weblink will be added August 18, 2013
Saturday, September 28th
North Carolina EMS Research Summit 2013
Sara Houston (2 day course),
Durham Technical Community College
September 28th and 29th
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Cedar A, B & C
This two-day preconference allows the research
novice to investigate the answers to questions
related to clinical care, system statistics, and
EMS education. Expert researchers and
biostatisticians will guide individuals through the
process of seeking evidence to support
prehospital care and education. Participants will
likely complete their abstract in time to submit
for presentation at upcoming national EMS
conferences. Many of the answers waiting to be
found will mold the way we care for patients
and educate future generations in EMS. One
word of caution – once demystified, research
may become habit forming!
Limited number of students 25
Course Fee to DTCC: $100.00
Course Fee: $25.00
Saturday, September 28th
Geriatric Education Course
Jason Clark (2 day course), Cherokee Tribal EMS
September 28th, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
September 29th, 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Blandwood
The proportion of the aged in society today is
greater than ever before and growing faster
than any other segment of our population.
Current indications are that approximately 34%
of calls for emergency medical services, or 3.4
million emergency responses involve patients
over the age of 60. GEMS represent the most
credible and complete source of prehospital
medical information for older adults. The GEMS
course is innovative, comprehensive, and highly
visual with: case-based lectures, live action
video, hands-on skill stations, small group
scenarios successful completion of this course
allows attendees the ability to instruct the
course for their own agencies.
Course Fee: $25.00
Pre-Conference Sessions 2013
Saturday, September 28th
Moulage Concepts
Bobbie Merica, Moulage Concepts
9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Augusta A & B
Bobbie Merica is the author of Medical
Moulage: How to Make Your Simulations Come
Alive, F. A. Davis Company, © 2011; Moulage!
Bridging the Gap in Simulation, © 2009 book on
CD and Moulage Magic! Theatrical Tricks to
Bring Simulation to Life,© 2007. Upon
discovering the absence of Moulage specific to a
clinical/hospital setting, she designed and
implemented the first of a series of 3D clinical
wounds, moulage kits and courses that she
teaches all over the country; enabling everyone
to "Bridge the Gap" in Simulation. Her
specialties include construction and facilitation
of Nursing Simulation programs, SimCenter
design and development, curriculum
implementation, policy & procedure, Simulation
education and training.
Course Fee: $25.00
Limited number of students 30
Limited to 3 students per Agency
Saturday, September 28th
2013 OEMS Instructor Workshop
Eddie Jordan, Robbie Amerson, and Jeff Powell
Regional Specialists/Educational Liaisons
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Auditorium III
This Workshop will discuss current and future
issues within the Education of EMS Providers in
North Carolina. The presentation and discussion
will be facilitated by the current OEMS
Educational Specialists (CRO, ERO and WRO).
Topics to be covered will include and are not
limited to the following:
 OEMS Level I and Level II Instructors
 EMS Educational Institutions
 TSOP & Clinicals
 Students OEMS Written Testing
 Legal Recognition Expired Credentials
 NCOEMS Website
 Credentialing Information System (CIS)
 The use of invasive procedures within
the classroom setting.
Saturday, September 28th
ACLS Experienced Provider/Instructor
Course (2 Day Course)
Tony Ramsey, Davidson Community College
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Colony A
This course is for seasoned healthcare providers
who are proficient in performing BLS and ACLS
skills, reading and interpreting ECGs, and
understanding ACLS pharmacology and who
regularly lead or participate in emergency
assessment and treatment of prearrest, arrest
or postarrest patients. The provider course will
be held on Saturday and the Instructor course
will be held on Sunday.
Those students wishing to participate in the
course are required to purchase the ACLSExperienced Provider textbook (90-1075 ACLS
EP Manual and Resource Text) prior to coming
to the class. The text book is $50.00 plus tax
and shipping, there are approximately 3 sources
for purchasing the book online. A course
completion fee of $10 will be charged at the end
of the class to cover the cost of the card and
online exam access key.
Course Fee: $15.00
Course Completion fee of $10.00 required
Registration Cut-Off date September 1, 2013
Pre-Conference Sessions 2013
Sunday, September 29th
Slaying the Certification Test Dragon
Bill Young, Kentucky Board of EMS
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Auditorium III
Preparation of your students to pass their
certification or licensure examination begins
with the first test or quiz. This presentation will
enable the educator to develop better exam
items.
During this presentation, the student will learn
about the six levels of test item composition and
why it is imperative to develop questions that
challenge critical thinking and not just
memorization of facts and figures.
Sunday, September 29th
Human Tissue Anatomy Course
Jeff Hinshaw, Assistant Professor
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Center for Applied Learning
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (Morning Session)
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Afternoon Session)
The course will provide a hands on training in
the fresh human tissue lab at the Wake Forest
Center for Applied Learning with the students
having quality instruction and the ability to do
invasive procedures on cadavers that have not
been embalmed. The procedures/educational
opportunities would include but not be limited
to: Tourniquet application on a bleeding
extremity, Intraosseous line placement, Airway
managment to include video laryngoscopy and
surgical airways, Femoral vein central line access,
detailed anatomy review on a prosected
cadaver, and Chest tube insertion. The course is
sponsored by the Wake Forest Center for
Applied Learning. The Center for Applied
Learning will also provide each student a
"certificate of advanced skills training" which
they can use for state or national recertification.
Transportation to the Center for Applied
Learning will not be provided.
*OEMS takes no role or responsibility in the
registration process of this course.
Limited # of Students 29
Limited to 3 students per Agency
Course Fee: $125.00