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2005 EMSC Annual Grantee Meeting
April 12-13, 2005
KATHLEEN BROWN: Hello. I'm Kathleen Brown. I'm here to tell you about the National Association of EMS Physicians. EMSP is an organization of actually both physicians and non-physician EMS professionals dedicated to improving prenatal hospital care. I'm going to talk to you today about the initiatives that had something to do with the Federal EMSC program. So the main connection we have with the Federal EMSC program or the most direct one is the Pediatric Pre-hospital Research Workshop, which is the second year we've held this. It was in January of this year. It's a contract we have with the EMSC, so they co‑sponsor and fund the research workshop.
I am the PI for the project, and Lynn White and Brooke Lerner have been on the steering committee both years to help plan the workshop. This year it was a three‑day course. It was really two days spread over three days, two days worth of content. And we had 25 participants, which is an increase from last year. We had 20 participants. And we limited that based on the funding that we had because we did provide a stipend for the attendees to come.
The workshop faculty, you can see listed there. It's a pretty good mix of peds emergency physicians, EM physicians and some non-physician researchers who were involved with the workshop. But you can also see that there's a lot of faculty. Probably the highlight of the workshop is that there's a very good student‑to‑teacher ratio, lots of people to learn from, and also people learn from other participants in the workshop.
There's a picture of some of the people at the workshop this year in January. The attendees including PZM fellows, EM residents. EM nurses, actually we only had one nurse. We'd like to improve that. If there's any nurses interested in attending next year, let me know. EMS providers and EM physicians. We had EM physicians from not only all places in this country but from Canada and Kosovo also.
We do have, we're planning on putting in a proposal for 2006. And hope to, again, cooperate with EMSC in holding the workshop again next year in association with our annual meeting in January of 2006.
Registration information once that has been finalized will be posted on EMSP website or you can contact me. That's my e‑mail.
We also hope again to have a call for pediatric abstracts. We had one the last few years with our EMSC contract, that included the workshop. There's not one right now but we again hope we will have that for next year's meeting. And we really would like to get more pediatric abstracts submitted for the meeting.
There's a prize for the best pediatric presentation. That's sponsored by the EMSC. And that's the winner from this year, John Alexander from Maine Medical Center on Pre-hospital Anesthesia use in Adults and Children.
I will tell you that there were only five pediatric posters, and I think two oral presentations that were considered for this prize. So you have pretty good odds if you do enter. So maybe that would be incentive.
And also just wanted to mention that of the five posters we had this year, four of the first authors or presenters of those posters were attendees added least year's workshop. So we were pretty happy about that to see they had gone on to submit things.
The pediatric ad hoc committee, I'm here talking about EMSP because I'm the chair at the moment of the pediatric ad hoc committee. Some things that we did this year was contributed to the educational component of the 2005 meeting. Every year we try and suggest topics and try and suggest that they increase the amount of time they spend on pediatric topics in the annual meeting and the didactic portion of that. I also represent EMSP at EMS stakeholders meeting, and co‑pilot as Dr. Knapp said earlier. Dr. Helene Heness, who I see in the audience, has been working on developing a position paper and information paper on prehospital D and R orders; and the rest of the committee is attempting to help him with that.
One other main thing that the committee does is to keep the model prehospital protocols up‑to‑date. Over the last couple of years we revised those, and they were published in 2003 in the fall of 2003. We plan on revising them again when the new guidelines from the AHA and core group come out and actually prior to that we're going to work on probably a format change for those protocols based on some feedback that we've gotten so that we'll be ready to add the new content changes when they come out I believe in the fall of this year.
Just a little bit about PECAR at EMSC. You've probably already heard about that already at this meeting. We're trying to collaborate with EMSP. We had an article I wrote in the March newsletter to tell people that ENMSP membership, more about PCARN and more how they can work about PCARN. One of the board members of ENMSP, Dr. Radu Sani, presented on the PCARN meeting again about how PCARN can get more involved with prehospital issues and research.
Some other things that aren't pediatric specific but are federally funded grants at NEMSP are working on, this is NHTSA and MCHB have contracted with NEMSP and ACEP to develop our national EMS core content. That's been an ongoing project. There's actually a draft on the NEMSP website you can look at. And then again the National Research EMS research agenda, Dr. Michael Sayer and Lynn White and Lawrence Brown have been involved with that for a number of years, and they're on to phase three which is a strategic plan for implementing the research agenda.
And then, finally, a few years ago, I think in 2001, after 9/11, NEMSP realized they needed to have lobbyists in Washington to advocate for EMS issues. And they went along with the National Association of EMS directors and funded advocates for EMS . There are other groups that contribute to that funding also including ACEP and a number of other organizations.
And then just a final statement: The next annual meeting is in 2006 in January, and a little ‑‑ again a recruitment to get involved with NEMSP for all of you physicians and non-physicians interested in pre-hospital care: The meetings are always in really cool places in the middle of January when it's warm. Thank you.
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