Franciscan Health is partnering with multiple health care organizations from around the Great Lakes for a three-day regional trauma care conference.
The Great Lakes Regional Trauma Conference is scheduled to take place Aug. 20 to Aug. 22 in Michigan City.
The conference is aimed at health care professionals across the Great Lakes. It is geared toward professionals providing trauma care, including surgeons, emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, nurses, therapists, EMS, fire, police, medical students, case workers and social workers.
Dr. Daniel Spaite will serve as the keynote speaker. Spaite is a professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. A board-certified emergency physician, he has been an EMS medical director for multiple fire departments and air medical transport programs forthe last 25 years. Spaite has presented his research on EMS, cardiac arrest, trauma systems, EMS outcomes analysis and EMS cost analysis at conferences internationally. In 2010, he received the Ronald Stewart, MD Career Award from the National Association of EMS Physicians.
Other sessions presented by trauma specialists and physicians include:
- Point of Care Ultrasound
- The Nuts & Bolts of Implementing EMS TBI Guidelines
- Preserving the Evidence: Forensics in Trauma Care
- The Role of Fatality Review Teams
- Emerging Substances & Harm Reduction Strategies
- Concussion & TBI Care
- Treatment & Rehabilitation of Burn Injuries
- Pelvic Trauma
- Mass Casualty & Disaster Preparedness
The conference is presented by Franciscan Health in partnership with Regional Health Systems, Hamilton Medical, the Blue Chip Casino, Hearts in Motion, ISA, Region V for Kids Great Lakes Consortium for Disaster Response, Parkview Health, Beacon Health System and Loyola University Chicago.
