Skills Labs

Advanced Airway Techniques Lab

Emergency physicians must be experts in airway management. This lab is designed to provide hands-on experience in several key emergency airway management techniques and adjuncts, including bougies, supraglottic airways, cricothyrotomy, video-laryngoscopy, and flexible scopes. Devices will include Glidescope, C-mac, Airtraq, King Vision, and intubating bronchoscopes.

Procedural Ultrasound Lab

Procedural Ultrasound helps clinicians safely perform an increasing number of common, rare, and even heroic procedures. The Procedural Ultrasound lab provides deliberate practice with expert feedback on a variety of Ultrasound-guided procedures, including venous access, pericardiocentesis, thoracentesis, paracentesis, arthrocentesis, and lumbar puncture.

Game On! Professors vs. The Pit: EM Knowledge Showdown

Join this fast-paced, interactive EM knowledge showdown where participants team up, or compete solo, to take on escalating clinical questions against the “Professors” panel. With only one minute to lock in answers and immediate elimination for incorrect responses, this high-energy session blends competition with rapid-fire teaching. Faculty hosts deliver key clinical pearls throughout, reinforcing core concepts and advanced EM insights in a fun, high-engagement format.

escapED: An ED Trauma Escape Room

Escape rooms represent an incredibly entertaining and challenging experiences designed to test a person and/or group's ability to solve puzzles, think critically, and work as a team. It is time to liven up the Scientific Assembly further with an educational ED-based escape room. Groups of ten participants will be tasked with solving numerous ED trauma-related puzzles as a group in order to save their patient before he expires. Can you do so in thirty minutes or less? The clock is ticking...

Mothers and Babies: Emergent Delivery and Pediatric Resuscitation Lab

In this lab, you will get hands-on practice with emergent and difficult deliveries, neonatal resuscitation, and critical pediatric procedures using simulation mannequins. After this session, you will feel more comfortable and confident with those rare but high-stakes situations with deliveries, resuscitation, and procedures for sick children.

Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Procedures Lab

Performing emergency procedures on sick infants and children can be stressful and frustrating. During this hands-on lab you will be given an opportunity to obtain hands-on practice in several life-saving procedures. Seldinger technique, intraosseous line placement, umbilical vein catheters, thoacostomy, and airway management techniques, including intubation, laryngeal mask airway, and needle cricothyrotomy will be demonstrated. (This lab is limited to participants.)

Resuscitative Ultrasonography Lab

The practicing emergency physician needs to be able to utilize ultrasound effectively in the evaluation and management of the critically ill patient. This hands-on lab will take the principals learned in the “Resuscitative Ultrasonography” lecture and put it to practical use. With guidance from our expert panel, you will practice how to optimize your most critical ultrasound views and utilize them to treat your sickest patients. (Prior attendance in "Resuscitative Ultrasonography" is required. This lab is limited to 30 participants.)

Transvenous Pacemaker Lab

Patients with unstable bradycardias frequently require the insertion of a transvenous pacemaker as part of their initial ED resuscitation. Although this is a relatively common procedure in the hospital setting, it isn’t done all that often in the emergency department. The procedure for insertion of a transvenous pacemaker is straightforward but creates quite a bit of anxiety for providers who haven’t inserted one in a while. This lab will teach you the steps of pacemaker insertion and what to do once it has been placed. Participants completing this workshop will gain confidence in taking care of this group of critically ill patients. (This lab is limited in the number of participants.)

Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Lab

During this hands-on lab, participants will perform simulations of all the regional anesthesia blocks described in the lecture: distal forearm, brachial plexus, femoral, cluneal, paraspinal, popliteal, etc. Attendees will employ the use of phantoms, patient models, & their fellow participants themselves as anatomic fodder. A representative sample of currently available ultrasound machines will be used. (This lab is limited to 30 participants.)