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Event attendees gather for a morning debriefing on the days activities.
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Brain Injury - From the Sidelines to the Fire line
In this exciting learning session, dual board certified emergency and sports medicine physician Tim Durkin will help you apply the latest concepts in concussion care from division 1 and professional sports and apply them on the fire line. You will learn field appropriate strategies to recognize, risk stratify and manage brain injury at all levels of severity. You will gain understanding of the physiology of concussion, how to help concussed patients recover, review key aspects of care for the critically brain injured patient, and get to apply these concepts in a variety of real world case studies.
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Oregon WA Certified Rescue Training Courses Technical Rope Swiftwater
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The Firefighter Knee
A strong, stable and functional knee is essential for fire fighter effectiveness, health, safety, mobility and career longevity. In this session, Dr Durkin will draw on his 30+ years of unique clinical experiences in prehospital response, ER work, Power 5 collegiate sports medicine, occupational medicine for fire departments, and outpatient orthopedics to help you optimize care for the injured knee and minimize injury risk for you and your teammates. You’ll learn about appropriate strategies for knee dislocation reduction, how to recognize limb threatening catastrophic injuries, and how initial care in the field can lay the groundwork for rapid recovery or prolonged disability. Additionally, we will apply evidence from high level sports and the limited data on fire fighter injuries to infer how we can program training and conditioning to prevent both acute and overuse knee injuries, and give you resources you can take home to help promote injury prevention in your response community.
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1a - Vendor Walk
1b - Blister & Foot Care, Heather Buben
1c - Eye Emergencies, Dr. Woody Peeples
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