CAESARS PALACE
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
March 17, 2013

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 MARCH 17, 2013

Caesars Palace

Las Vegas




Sunday, March 17, 2013

7:00 a.m.   Registration Opens
Palace Tower, 3rd Floor, Promenade Level
 
7:00 - 8:30 a.m.   Continental Breakfast served in Exhibit Hall

SESSION 1
NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO!

Moderator: Norman E. McSwain, Jr.
7:50 - 8:00   Disaster Response 2013
From multiple shootings in a Colorado theater to a repeat devastating hurricane threat on the Gulf Coast- what lessons must we learn to successfully meet similar challenges in the future. These and other mass casualty situations will be examined and discussed for answers
Kenneth L. Mattox
8:00 - 8:20   HEICS: For Disasters...Or a Disaster
Alexander L. Eastman
8:20 - 8:40   Crosstalk/Crossfire - EMS, Public Health, Security,
Volunteer Organizations & Physicians
Ha Tang
8:40 - 9:00  

Rural Disaster Response
Richard A. Sidwell

9:00 - 9:15  

Engaging Physicians in Medical Disaster Response
Miguel Cubano

9:15 - 9:30   Kids in Disasters - What's Different?
R. Todd Maxson
9:30 - 9:50   Panel Discussion
9:50 - 10:15  

Break & Visit Exhibits

SESSION 2
BEEN THERE DONE THAT
REAL TIME LESSONS LEARNED

 

Moderator: Kenneth L. Mattox
10:15 - 10:35  

Disaster Planning & Response: Lessons
Learned from the Colorado Shootings
Christopher Colwell

10:35 - 10:50   Undeclared Disaster: West Nile
In Your City
Alexander L. Eastman
10:50 - 11:05   New Orleans - Second Time Around
What Did We Do Differently?
Norman E. McSwain, Jr.
11:05 - 11:20   A Bomb Explodes in a Building
What Do You Do?
Ha Tang
11:20 - 11:45   Panel Discussion

SESSION 3
LUNCHEON SESSION

11:45-1:00
Palace Tower, 4th Floor, Palace Ballroom

Moderator: Kenneth L. Mattox

"Disaster Planning, Role of a Regional Trauma Advisory Council"
Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS
Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery
Jocelyn and Joe Straus Endowed Chair in Trauma Research
The University of Texas Health Science Center

San Antonio, Texas

SESSION 4
Beyond Triage and Resuscitation

Moderator: Alexander L. Eastman
1:00-1:15  

Surviving a Cyber Attack: Is Your Hospital
Prepared for Cyberterrorism or Power Grid Failure?
Kenneth L. Mattox

1:15 -1:30  

Multiple Burn Patients - Hospital Response
Hamed Amani

1:30 - 1:45   Chemical Tanker Truck Explosion -
Multiple Patients:  Are You Prepared?
Carlos V..R. Brown
1:45 - 2:00  

ACSCOT Role in Disaster Response
Michael F. Rotondo

2:00 - 2:15

  Blast Injury - Field and EC Management
Col. James R. Ficke
2:15 -2:35  

Late Breaking News: Aftermath consequences of Hurricane Sandy, days 3-9
Sheldon H. Teperman

 
2:35 - 3:00  
Panel Discussion
 
3:00 - 3:30  

Break & Visit Exhibits

 
       

SESSION 5
CASE MANAGEMENT
INTERACTIVE SESSION
Practical Issues & Dilemmas in Mass Casualty Preparedness

3:30-6:00
Moderator: Kenneth L. Mattox

Panelists:

Christopher Colwell
Miguel Cubano
Alexander L. Eastmen
Col. James R. Ficke
Norman E. McSwain, Jr.
Ha Tang

 

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2013


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