Friday, May 29, 2009
7:00am - 5:00pm
Course Description
This one day course developed by trauma surgeons and nurses experienced in disasters is intended to provide knowledge in all-hazards hospital disaster management and preparedness.
A special emphasis on blast injuries and mass trauma events is provided. Training consists of interactive lectures, case scenarios and role playing. The course is taught by prominent local and national faculty.
Course Core Competencies
· Epidemiology and History of Disasters
· Disaster Planning
· Disaster Response Organization and Execution
· Medical Management of Mass Casualties
· Pathophysiology and Patterns of Injury
· Post-Disaster Assessment and Recovery
· Pitfalls/barriers in disaster planning and response
Target Audience
This course is targeted at those acute care providers (surgeons, anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians and their senior residents, ER, OR, ICU and Trauma nurses and prehospital professionals) who will be the most likely first receivers of casualties following a major disaster.
Needs Assessment
Our medical community has been increasingly confronted with the threat and actual occurrence of major mass casualty disasters. Since 9/11 and recalling similar past attacks and natural disasters, it is apparent that medical care providers are not well prepared for mass casualty events. These events require an entirely different approach to medical care, including different strategies and tactics in caring for large numbers of severely injured victims. Disasters are not simply large emergencies, and doing simply more of the same will not work to optimize casualty outcomes. This course is intended to aid the target audience attain a common understanding of the principles of mass medical care so as to assure the success of disaster medical responses. Major organizations as the CDC, AMA, the American Association of Orthopedic Surgery, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American College of Surgeons have strongly urged acute care medical providers to achieve education and training in disaster management.
CME Statement
ACCREDITATION
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CME CREDIT
The American College of Surgeons designates this educational activity for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Course Faculty
Jay Doucet, MD, FACS
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery
Director, Surgical Critical Care
University of California San Diego
Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Trauma, Burns, Surgical Critical Care
UCSD Medical Center
Deborah A. Kuhls, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief, Section of Critical Care
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Jeanne Lee, MD
Assistant clinical Professor of Surgery
Division of Trauma, Burns, Surgical Critical Care
Bruce Potenza, MD, FACS
Director, UCSD Regional Burn Center
Frank Kennedy, MD, FACS
Director, Trauma Services
Sharp Memorial Hospital
DMEP Course Objectives
1. The participants will be able to identify the principles of planning, preparedness and medical management of casualties following disasters, within the context of the unique constraints of large casualty numbers in short periods of time with limited resources.
2. The participants will be able to explain the surgical problems, issues and injuries that result from most disasters and the roles that surgeons and their allies may play in managing all forms of disasters.
3. The participants will be able to illustrate the importance of involvement by surgeons and other acute care providers in disaster planning and management at the hospital, community and regional levels.
4. The participants will be able to identify pathophysiology and patterns of injury and mortality to be expected from disasters, including natural, biologic, chemical, nuclear/radiologic and explosive events.
5. The participants will be able to define the goals of terrorism, to relate the history of terrorist attacks, and describe the most common types of mass casualty disasters that result from terrorist actions.
6. The participants will be able to describe the principles, categories, challenges, and implementation of mass casualty triage.
7. The participants will be able to relate the terms and concepts that are unique to the medical management of mass casualties, including triage, surge capacity, crisis management, consequence management, situational awareness, decontamination, and critical mortality.
8. The participants will able to explain the function and structure of Incident Command and their role(s).
9. The participants will be able to define and classify the response phases and impediments to care of mass casualty disasters.
10. The participants will be able to describe methods for psychoemotional support and care of disaster casualties, their families, and responders.
Faculty Disclosure
It is the policy of the University of California, San Diego Continuing Medical Education (UCSD CME) to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor. All faculty participating are required to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentation. All conflicts of interest will be resolved prior to an educational activity being delivered to learners through one of the following mechanisms 1) altering the financial relationship with the commercial interest, 2) altering the individual’s control over CME content about the products or services of the commercial interest, and/or 3) validating the activity content through independent peer review. All faculty are also required to disclose any discussions of off label/unapproved uses of drugs or devices.
Cultural and Linguistic Competency
This activity is in compliance with California Assembly Bill 1195 which requires continuing medical education activities with patient care components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguistic competency. Cultural competency is defined as a set of integrated attitudes, knowledge, and skills that enables health care professionals or organizations to care effectively for patients from diverse cultures, groups, and communities. Linguistic competency is defined as the ability of a physician or surgeon to provide patients who do not speak English or who have limited ability to speak English, direct communication in the patient’s primary language. Cultural and linguistic competency was incorporated into the planning of this activity. Additional resources on cultural and linguistic competency and information about AB1195 can be found on the UCSD CME website at http://cme.ucsd.edu.
Course Registration Fee: $100
Fee includes Course manual, CD-ROMs, Breakfast, Lunch and
refreshments, CME/CEU certificate.
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Enrollment is limited to 40 people.
Future courses in San Diego are planned.
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For more information contact Rebecca at
(619) 543-7526 or Email at rvelez@ucsd.edu
200 West Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103