2024 Emergency Medicine- Updates & Current Practices

Course Overview

The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Emergency Medicine offers this one-week postgraduate course for local, national, and international emergency physicians, specialty physicians, primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and EMTs. This five-day course will cover a vast array of topics, including:

• Acute Compartment Syndromes
• Acute Ischemic Stroke: Tenecteplase, Expanded Treatment Windows, and Other Updates
• Addressing Burnout in Emergency Medicine
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Pearls
• Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
• Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
• ARDS
• BURNS
• Cardiac Arrest
• Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
• Code ICH! The First Hours of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Management
• Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
• Critical Care Toxicology
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
• Echo in Shock
• Emergency Preparedness
• Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
• Eye Emergencies
• Geriatric Agitation in the ED: Differentiating and Managing Dementia and Delirium
• Geriatric Emergency Departments: Is that a thing? History, Concept and Evolving Evidence
• Geriatric Trauma and Falls
• Hand Injuries: How would You treat them; Case-Based Updates
• High Altitude Illness
• Mild Head Trauma
• Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
• Pediatric Head Trauma/Concussion
• Point-of Care Ultrasound
• Priapism Management
• Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics
• Sepsis Updates
• Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
• Spine Trauma
• STIs
• Substance Use Disorder in the ED
• The Crashing Neonate
• Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation
• Vasopressors & Shock Pearls

This interactive course will include didactic presentations, Q&A, review of cases, problem solving and other engaging formats via remote learning. Learners will have many opportunities to develop new strategies they can incorporate into their practice setting.

2024 Agenda

All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.

Monday, April 8, 2024

DAY ONE

8:40-9:00 AM

Welcome
Calvin Huang, MD, MPH

9:00-9:40 AM

Reading Cardiac Ischemia on ECGs: the Basics 
J. Toby Nagurney MD, MPH

9:40-10:20 AM

The Digital Transformation of Emergency Medicine 
Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

Geriatric Falls
Shan Liu, MD, MPH

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

Hand Emergencies
Dana Stearns, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Emergency Medicine Burnout
Joshua Baugh, MD, MPP, MHCM

1:40-2:20 PM

Advances in the Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation and Sudden Cardiac Death 
Keith Marill, MD, MS

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Eye Emergencies
David Peak, MD

3:20-4:00 PM

Acute Compartment Syndromes
David Peak, MD

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

DAY TWO

9:00-9:40 AM

Postpartum Hemorrhage
Suzanne Leslie, MD

9:40-10:20 AM

Code ICH: The First Hours of Intracerebral Hemorrhage Management
Joshua N. Goldstein, MD, PhD

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

Escalation Alert: Best Practice Communication to Keep ED Staff and Patients Safe
Jonathan Sonis, MD, MHCM

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

Emergency Preparedness
Paul Biddinger, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Pediatric Trauma & Concussion
Ari Cohen, MD

1:40-2:20 PM

Priapism Management
Andrew Eyre, MD, MS

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Shock and Awe: Six Strategies to Prevent Hemodynamic Collapse
Andrew Reisner, MD

3:20-4:00 PM

Circulatory Shock Quiz Bowl
Andrew Reisner, MD

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

DAY THREE

9:00-9:40 AM

POCUS – Procedures – peripheral IV & Lumbar Puncture
Calvin Huang, MD, MPH

9:40-10:20 AM

POCUS – e-FAST
Nour Al Jalbout, MD

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

POCUS – Cardiac & Lung
David L. Chu, MD

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

POCUS – Pediatric Cases
Sigmund Kharasch, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Applying Systems Engineering and Innovation to Improve ED Patient Experience
Benjamin A. White, MD

1:40-2:20 PM

Virtual Observation: Lessons Learned From Redefining The Walls of the ED 
Benjamin A. White, MD

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Neonatal Resuscitation
Nicole Nadeau, MD; Maggie Samuels-Kalow, MD

3:20-4:00 PM

Sepsis Updates
Michael Filbin, MD, MPH

Thursday, April 11, 2024

DAY FOUR

9:00-9:40 AM

Burns
Robert Sheridan, MD

9:40-10:20 AM

Considerations in Anticoagulation Reversal 
Lanting Fuh, RPH

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

ARDS
Peter Hou, MD

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

Critical Care Double Feature: Push-Dose Pressors, and Phenobarbital for Alcohol Withdrawal
Paul Jansson, MD, MS

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

Mild Head Trauma
Pierre Borczuck, MD

1:40-2:20 PM

Updates in Ischemic Stroke
Kori Zachrison MD, MSC

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Cardiac Arrest
Sean Kivlehan, MD

3:20-4:00 PM

Sexually Transmitted Infections
Donna Felsenstein, MD

Friday, April 12, 2024

DAY FIVE

9:00-9:40 AM

Approach to the Sick Trauma Patient
Rama Salhi, MD, MHS, MSC

9:40-10:20 AM

Physiologically Difficult Airway Cases
Derek Monette, MD

10:20-10:40 AM

Break

10:40-11:20 AM

Fever POCUS Algorithm
Hamid Shokoohi, MD, MPH

11:20 AM-12:00 PM

Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Dan Egan, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00-1:40 PM

5 Tests to Consider Avoiding in Your PEM Patients: Why It’s Good for You And Good for Them 
Nicole Nadeau, MD

1:40-2:20 PM

Managing Critically Ill Patients with Septic Shock 
Hamid Shokoohi, MD, MPH

2:20-2:40 PM

Break

2:40-3:20 PM

Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism 
Christopher Kabrhel, MD, MPH

3:20-4:00 PM

Scaling Humanitarian Aid, from Ebola to Ukraine 
Jarone Lee, MD