CONFERENCE GOALS

Our annual conference brings together a strong evidence base, with speakers from the region and international, in order to update healthcare professionals on the care of injured and acutely unwell children. At the end of the conference, our multidisciplinary participants will have expanded knowledge on a variety of key topics; be able to recognize and manage common yet potentially serious conditions; will have improved critical thinking; be able to discuss research in PEM; and will incorporate quality and patient safety goals into practice.

Overarching Learning Objectives:

- Recognize serious illness and injury in children presenting to the ED
- Discuss the best evidence in the management of critically ill neonates and children -
- Manage a variety of medical, surgical, traumatic, behavioral, and technology-assisted presentations in children
- Review the best articles in PEM for the last year
- Analyze cases using best evidence to critically plan management
- Evaluate clinical pathways in use in pediatric EDs
- Incorporate quality and patient safety goals into daily practice
- Evaluate academic practice in PEM
- Review the interventions needed for a variety of toxicological ingestions
- List the red flags and detail a systems approach when managing trauma

The QPEM conference goal is to provide high quality, evidence-based updates for healthcare practitioners involved in the urgent and emergent care of children.  At the end of the conference, our multidisciplinary participants will have expanded knowledge on a variety of key topics; be able to recognize and manage common yet potentially serious conditions; will have improved critical thinking; be able to discuss research in PEM; and will incorporate quality and patient safety goals into practice.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Allied Health, EMTs, Trainees are welcome