/ The13th Annual Scientific Assembly of the Israeli Association for EM
Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, March 10-11, 2008
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, MARCH 11, 2008 (DAY 2)
/ 09:00 – 09:20 / Opening remarks / IAEM chairman, Conference Chairman
09:30 – 10:00 / "Makeshift Medicine: Medical Treatment With Scarce Resource" / Keynote speaker
Dr. Kenneth V. Iserson
10:00 – 10:30 / Coffee break
PLENARY SESSION

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Toxicology / Pediatrics / EMS & Resuscitation
10:30 – 11:00
/ SAL Management of Rodenticides ingestion / Prof. Mati Lifshitz / SAL
Insights into the pathophysiology
of cerebral edema in DKA
/ Dr. Nate Kupperman / 10:30 – 10:50
SFS
New Hemostatic products
/ Tomer Golan
10:50 – 11:10
SFS
2007 ACLS new directions and updates
/ Dr. Pini Halpern
11:10 – 11:30
SFS
To intubate or not intubate - decision making in pre-hospital pediatric head trauma / Dr. Jim Holmes
11:00 – 11:30 / ITS
Challenges in the management of a mass toxicological incident / Dr. Lion Poles / NHL
Future directions in Pediatric CPR / Prof. Gidi Paret
11:30 – 12:00 / ITS
A clinical debate: can one pill kill? / Dr. Beni Bar-Oz / ITS
Analgesia in the PED - Can we do it better? / Dr. Ran Goldman / NHL
Capnography in EM: An Emerging
Standard of Care / Dr. Baruch Krauss
Scientific paper session / Scientific paper session / Original research in Pre-hospital EM
12:00 – 12:20
Air transport in the 2nd Lebanon war
/ Dr. Dagan Schwartz
12:20 – 12:40
Team work in Israeli EMS
/ Dr. Hili Laveter-Yahalom
12:40 – 13:00
Intraosseous access in the pre-hospital setting / Reuven Dichter
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:30 / Poster presentation
Trauma / Cardiology
13:30 – 14:00 / SAL
The ED management of
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
/ Dr. Leon Levi / SAL
Aortic Emergencies /
Dr. Ron Karmeli
14:00 – 14:30 / SFS
Trauma in Elderly
/ Dr. Asaph Nini / ITS
PCI Vs Thrombolysis in STEMI: Who is the winner?
/ Dr. Yoav Turgeman
14:30 – 15:00 / NHL
Surge Capacity in Multi-Casualty Events
/ Dr. Michael Stein / NHL
Pulmonary Embolism, The consistent and hidden killer / Dr. Shamai Grossman
15:00 / Lunch
16:00 – 17:00 / IJEM editorial board
meeting / PEMI steering committee
meeting / Charge Nurse Leadership meeting / Fellows meetings

SAL = State of the Art Lecture – Inform the audience about the "real state-of-the-art" of a given subject by experts in this topic.

ITS = Interactive Teaching Session – Focus on enhancing the interaction between participants and presenter/s on a given topic. A debate over this topic may be presented to the audience.

SFS= Special Focus Session – Offers comprehensive coverage of a selected topic that is of particular interest.

NHL = New Horizon Lecture – Introduces an overview of the new developments in a specific area of practice