THURSDAY
100-O Saving Lives Through Investments in Nursing    
101-O Help! There’s a Dog Waiting in Triage    
102-C Sepsis Management in the Emergency Department    
103-C Patient Care After the Bowl Filled: The Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans    
104-O My Back-Up Brain: The Power of a PDA in the Palm of a Nurse    
105-O Improving Patient Throughput: Proven Solutions to ED Crowding    
106-C Child Abuse: From Discovery to Prosecution    

FRIDAY
107-O Performance Measurement in the Health Care Staffing Industry    
208-O Child Passenger Safety (CPS) Federal Update    
209-O Turning Around the Turn Arounds: Managing ED Throughputs    
210-C Tube With Finesse: Create an RSI Program    
211-C Not Just Antibiotics and Admission: Saving Lives with Aggressive Sepsis Therapy in the Emergency Department    
212-C Hypothermia: The Cold Facts    
213-O Anatomy of a Malpractice Trial    
214-C Pressors and Paralytics—So Many Choices   
215-C Children Need More Than Medicine to Get Well    
216-O Lessons Learned: A Panel Discussion on the Katrina and Rita Disaster Response    
218-C Assessment and Management of Chronic Wounds for Emergency Nurses    
219-C Managing Nausea and Vomiting    
220-C Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) Part 1    
221-C Huffing & Puffing: Inhalant Abuse    
222-C Pediatric Seizures    
223-O Evidence-based Practice: What’s New and Should You Change Your Practice?    
224-O Documentation and Liability: How What You Write Shows Up in Court    
225-C ICU Care in the Emergency Department    
226-O What’s in Your Backyard? Injury Prevention for Trampolines and Other Backyard Equipment    
230-C Snakes and Cats and Puppy Dog Bites    
231-O Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) Part 2 (See Course 220-C)   
232-C Defusing the Time Bomb: Aortic Dissection in the Emergency Department    
233-C Teenagers and Suicide    
234-C Resuscitation Games—Tools to Enhance Retention of Resuscitation Knowledge    
235-C Tales From the Tube: Managing the Difficult Airway    
236-C Avian Flu .    
237-C Things Aren't Always What They Appear to Be—Especially in Kids    
238-C ATLS—Fact or Fiction    
240-C Death Telling: How Best to Deliver Bad News    
241-C Pediatric Resuscitation: Making a Difference    
242-C High Risk, Low Volume: Avoiding Triage Disasters    
243-C Life’s Tough, Wear a Helmet: Reducing the Risk of Head Injury in Sport    
244-O Grow Your Own: Empowering and Educating Today’s ED Technicians for Tomorrow’s New Graduate ED Nurses    
245-C Theatre of Innovation   
246-C Credentialing Medical Volunteers in Disaster    
247-O Critical Thinking Skills for Life in the Emergency Department    
248-C Pediatric Mass Casualty: Is Your Institution Ready?    
249-O IOM Report: Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System    
305-O CEN® Recognition Breakfast—Bedside Banter: Humor and the Health Care Professional    
309-C On Your Last Nerve: Neuroanatomy   

SATURDAY
310-C Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV): Still the Epidemic    
311-C Adolescent Concerns in the Emergency Department: Sex-n-Drugs-n-Hip Hop    
312-C Emergency Assessment of Pediatric “Neuro Nightmares”   
314-O Pheochromocytoma—So Many Faces, So Little Time   
315-O Mentoring and Coaching for Today and the Future    
316-C ResearchPaper Presentation I   
317-O The Power of Precepting: Please Don’t Eat the Daisies    
319-C ATV=Another Trauma Victim: The Pediatric Crisis    
320-C C Emergency! Emergency   
321-C What a Sweet Child: Managing Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) and Other Endocrine Disorders   
322-C Rx for Psychotropic Drug Management    
323-C Cardiac Alert: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Decreasing Door-to-Balloon Time    
324-C Mock Code to Real Code: Use of Simulation in Development of Emergency Nurses’ Skills in Patient Resuscitation   
325-C Implementing Best Practices in the Emergency Department   
326-C Pre-hospital and ED Care of the Elderly Head Trauma Patient    
330-C The Immunosuppressed Patient in the Emergency Department    
331-C TraumaRama    
332-C Pearls and Pitfalls in Pediatric Trauma    
333-C There’s More than Just Insulin    
334-C Assessing “Suicidality” in the Emergency Department    
335-C Preparing Families for Disasters    
336-C But He Was Fine in Triage: How to Keep Your Walk-In From Going Belly Up    
337-C ResearchPaper Presentation II    
338-C Male Genitourinary (GU) Exam and Male GU Pathologies    
340-C Climb Every Mountain—Wilderness Injury Prevention    
341-C Tattoos, Tongues, Trauma, and Teenagers: Body Piercing & Modification    
342-C The Epidemic of Diabetes in the World of the Emergency Department    
343-C Critical Diagnosis in the Pediatric Patient   
344-C Deception: Münchausen’s Syndrome and Münchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy   
345-C Burn Management: Strategies for Improved Outcomes   
346-O A Primer on Research in the Emergency Department   
347-C Decision Making in Pediatric Triage: Someone to Watch Over Me   
348-O On the Road to Revolution: Fear and Loathing in the U.S. Health Care System and How ED Nurses Can Save the World    

CLINICAL POSTER ABSTRACTS
400-O Development and Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Emergency Department. Hazmat Team   
401-O Emergency Department Nurses and Physicians Training Together to Improve Teamwork    
402-O Improving Emergency Department Throughput: One Medical Center's Initiative   
403-O Preempting the Nursing Shortage: An Emergency Department Nurse Internship Program   
404-C Improving Satisfaction and Quality Through a Single-Point-of-Discharge   
405-O Ambulatory Infusion Clinic and Emergency Services: Model for the Future   
406-O Emergency Department Outreach Nurse: A Continuity-of-Care Program   
407-C Neuro-Critical Transfer: Faster Access to Definitive Care   
408-O Implementation of an Electronic Emergency Department Medical Record System    
409-C Disaster Preparation: Adapting Pre-Existing Plans to Multiple Disaster Scenarios    
410-O Tools to Decrease Violent Incidents in the Emergency Department   
411-O Removing Barriers to Patient Flow: A Systems-Analysis Approach   
412-C Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Combating an International Killer    
413-O Using a Rapid Assessment Team to Decrease Emergency Department Waiting Time   
414-O Expediting Emergency Department Patient Care, Improving Hospital Operations   
415-O Peer Review: Setting the Stage for Quality Patient Care   
416-O Development and Implementation of a Two-Step Triage Process   
417-O Knowledge-Enhancement Educational Project (KEEP) for the VA Nurses   
418-O Decreasing the Emergency Department Length of Stay for the Trauma Patient   
419-O Transitioning From an Emergency Room to an Emergency Care Center    
420-C Trauma Secrets of Success: The Redesign of a Massive Transfusion Tray    
421-O Cyanide Awareness and Risk Preparedness Among Emergency Responders in the United States   
422-O O Implications of Transportation Choices When a Pediatric Patient is Burned    
423-O Nursing Turns the Tide: The Triage Plus Plan   
424-O Check Your Heart at the Door   
425-O Emergency Department Data: Making a Difference in Community Prevention Efforts   

EXHIBIT HALL CECH
500-C Early Sepsis Recognition in the ED. The 6 Hour Bundles
501-C EGDT: Where it Came From, Where it is Going, How to Implement it
502-C Continuous Venous Oximetry: A New Tool for the ED

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
Ed Technology
Episodic Care Centers
Forensic Nursing
Retired Emergency Nurses
Telephone Triage
Travel Nursing
Uniformed Services

NETWORKING SESSIONS
Advanced Practice Nursing
Board Of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN)
Emergency Preparedness
ENA Injury Prevention Institute/EN CARE
Geriatrics
Government Affairs
Managers
Nursing Practice
Patient Safety
Research
ENPC/TNCC/CATN

CAPL
205-C Advanced ABC's   
206-C Digital Blocks and Local Anethetics   
207-O A Fact a Minute-Evidence to Change Your Practice   
217-C Be Careful What You Say! High-Risk Medical Phrases   
227-C Wound Management   
228-C Eye,Ears, and Nose: Eeny,Meeny,Miney,Moe   
229-C Diagnostic Dilemmas   
239-C Match that Rash: A Basic Review of Common and Not-So-Common Dermatological Conditions See in the Emergency Setting   
306-C Vascular Access Using Ultrasound Guidance   
307-C Minor Emergency Procedures   
308-C X-ray 101: Chest and Abdominal Readings   
318-C Top Ten New Drugs in Emergency Medicine   
327-C Emergency Dental Anesthesia Blocks   
328-C Lumbar Punctures: Principles and Practice   
329-C An Emergency Department's Follow-up on Everchanging Drugs and Bugs   
339-C Asthma Advances in Pediatric Emergency Medicine