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Bend, Oregon: September 12, 2008

Portland, Oregon: October 8, 2008

Professional Development Presentations
• Evidence Based Practice: Making it Work for You
• Nursing Research Council: Guiding Clinician-Led Research
• Creating an Environment of Clinical Expertise
• Clinician Led Research

Trauma & Critical Care Presentations
• Correlating Mechanism of Injury to Physical Assessment of the Trauma Patient
• Endpoints of Resuscitation: Are We Looking at the “Right Stuff?”
• Bloody Lethal Triad of Trauma: Hypothermia, Acidosis, & Coagulopathy
• Blood Transfusions: Are they as Helpful as We Think They Are?
• Physiologic Considerations of the Critically Ill and Injured Geriatric Patient
• The Immune Response to Trauma: The “Oooh-La-La Factor”
• Maintaining Cerebral Perfusion in the Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury
• Manipulating the Body’s Thermostat: Clinical Implications of Being Too Hot or Too Cold
• Inducing Hypothermia to Optimize Neurologic Outcomes
• Physiologic Considerations of Alcohol Use & Abuse: Don’t Be Fooled
• Cardiac Trauma: Mending the Broken Heart
• Sepsis: The Unifier of Critical Care
• Pathophysiology, Assessment and Management of Shock
• Using Oxygen Delivery & Consumption Parameters to Guide Resuscitation
• Trauma Case Studies
• End-Tidal CO2 Monitoring
• GI Issues in Critical Care: Pancreatitis, Liver Failure, & GI Bleeds