This conference has been created to address both parties at risk in emergency medicine – the patient and the provider. Topics have been specifically chosen to educate attendees regarding the optimal care of the sickest patients we see in daily ED practice – sepsis, cardiac ischemia, aortic dissection, etc. – as well as to educate attendees in how to bulletproof themselves from the plaintiff attorneys.

Low-Risk Chest Pain is one of the great misnomers in medicine. On the contrary, patients that are generally considered “low-risk” frequently turn out to be suffering from high-risk conditions, especially acute coronary syndrome (ACS). These cases of ACS, despite being considered by the clinician initially to be “low-risk,” have a high mortality when discharged home and they constitute one of the highest sources of medicolegal payout in our specialty. Join us as we host some of the leading researchers in the world as they convene on our campus to discuss their research, their recommendations, and their protocols for managing these patients in the emergency department.

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine is pleased to host our eighth Emergency Medicine Critical Care Symposium. The Symposium features an outstanding line-up of exceptional critical care physicians who will speak on a variety of emergency critical care topics.

This course is intended to train emergency medicine professionals in critical care invasive procedures. By using a 2:1 physician to cadaver ratio, emergency physicians will have the opportunity to practice difficult procedures in a controlled but real-life simulation. Participants in this course will have the opportunity to build on and maintain their clinical skills in a cadaver lab setting.

A procedure-based course specially designed to focus on wound care management, non-invasive orthopedic procedures and lumbar puncture skills. The objectives for each procedure include learning the indications, contraindications, equipment, technique, complications, post procedure follow up and pearls needed to perform the procedures competently.

This course teaches complex procedures including esophageal variceal bleed tamponade, transvenous pacing and trouble shooting, HINTS, Dix Hallpike and Epley maneuvers for vertigo evaluation/therapy, and pig tail chest tube insertion.