Iowa ENA 23rd Annual Conference
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
1200 Pleasant Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 7:30am CT - 4:30pm CT
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2017 Iowa ENA Conference Agenda
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Objectives:
- Discuss indications, contraindications and clinical scenarios of ketamine use in the emergency department.
- Describe the historical perspective of antibiotic use.
- Define classes of antibiotics and examples of each class.
- Define antibiograms and their use.
- Review symptoms of psychiatric disorders with interfering and disruptive behavior.
- Identify strategies to effectively intervene using a variety of practice situations when caring for a mentally ill patient in the ED.
- Differentiate compromised airway to airway emergencies.
- Discuss devices and equipment used in order to obtain a secure airway.
- List medications used during a medicated-assisted airway.
- Identify both common and less frequently encountered pediatric emergencies.
- Outline the pathophysiology of some unusual pediatric diseases.
- Review national findings of heroin addiction and address issues specific to Iowa.
- Discuss heroin prevention education being done in schools and Iowa communities