Emerging Trends in Acute Care for Athletic Trainers

Objectives:
Gain skills to properly treat and assesses related illness
Demonstrate how to take a rectal temperature accurately and efficiently
Identify the indications and contraindications for the use of ice immersion in the treatment of heat related illnesses
Discuss the different types of breathing devices used to establish and maintain an airway and adequately ventilate an individual
Demonstrate and apply the skills needed to establish and maintain an airway
Demonstrate how to prepare and administer… Show more supplemental oxygen and gain Spo2 certification
Identify how to incorporate acute care compentencies while adhering to the Connecticut State Practice Act.
PROGRAM :
7am : Registration & Breakfast (provided)
7:30 : Welcome: Gail Samdperil, Sacred Heart University
7:45 – 9:15 : Concurrent Labs
Management of Heat Illnesses: The Korey Stringer Institute, University of Connecticut
Airway Management & Supplemental Oxygen: John Cotter & Eleni Diakogeorgiou, Sacred Heart University
9:30 – 11:00 : Concurrent Labs
Participants will switch labs at this time
11:15-12:00 : Lunch (provided)
How do the new competencies effect the CT State practice act? : Cata Representative: Gary Morin, Southern CT State University

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