Trauma 2025
Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino
7 Blackjack Boulevard
East Peoria, IL 61611
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 7:45am CT - 4:30pm CT
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Posted by The Heart of Illinois Chapter of AACN
TraumaInfo
Topic
Managing Airway Challenges: Dealing with Complication/Adversity; Pediatric Trauma Patient Trends & Updates; What If?...Dealing with Loss & PTSD; Enhancing Peri-Intubation Outcomes: The Role of Push-Dose Pressors & Human Factor Checklists In Improving First-Pass Success; Disaster Events: When the Worst Gets Worse; In the Beginning…….: Multi-Trauma Case Study
Credits Offered
This event offers
7.5 contact hours
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
IDPH / AACN-Accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Attachments
Additional Information
Conference topics include Basic to Advanced airway management including challenging airways & enhancing intubation outcomes using checklists & pressors. Other topics: Disaster, Pediatric Trauma Patient trends & updates, & Multi-Trauma Case from the Field through Hospital Stay. Participation encouraged in this case study.
This conference is earlier in the month than last year so please reserve your hotel room early. Phone number & online information is on the back of the brochure.
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 7.5 contact hours.
This program has been approved by Illinois Department of Public Health for 7.25 contact hours for First Responders, EMT(B, I, P)s, ECRNs, PHRNs.
If you have any questions or need information, please call (309-256-8498) or e-mail (galucas@att.net) me anytime. Thank you. Gayle Lucas
Speakers
Paramedic, Safety Officer. Clinical Specialist
David Olvera is a Nationally Registered Paramedic, Certified Flight Paramedic, and Certified Medical Transport Executive. He serves on the International Board of Flight and Critical Care Paramedics and recently completed his term with the MedEvac Foundation International. He is involved in clinical research since 2007 specifically airway and resuscitation. He is a Veteran Combat Medic in the US Army and published multiple abstracts and papers related to prehospital airway management, resuscitation, and advancing air medical transport research. His latest job is research services assistant manager for hematology-oncology at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. He likes to barbecue during his free time and spends time with his wife Suzi, boys Jax and Miles, and his new daughter Cecilia.
Surgeon-In-Chief, Managing Director of Pediatrics - OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery: University of Illinois College of Medicine-Peoria
Faculty Surgeon- Department of Trauma, Critical Care, & Emergency General Surgery-OSF HealthCare SFMC
Medical Director of Clinical Research - OSF Healthcare
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery -University of Illinois College of Medicine-Peoria
Neurosurgery / Neurology Inpatient APRN:
OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center-OSF Illinois Neurological Institute