Program — Aula 1000

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Friday — April 11, 2025

Opening Session : KEYNOTE LECTURES

Saturday — April 12, 2025

Session 1 : EDUCATION / SIMULATION 8:00 am – 9:10 am
Session 2 : TACTICAL AND COMBAT EMERGENCIES MILITARY SESSION 9:25 am – 11:15 am
Session 3 : TRAUMA 11:30 am – 1:05 pm
Session 4 : PEDIATRICS 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Session 5 : INFECTION AND SEPSIS PROBLEMS 3:40 pm – 5:10 pm
Session 6 : TOXICOLOGY 5:20 pm – 7:10 pm

Sunday — April 13, 2025

Session 1 : POCUS IN ED 9:00 am – 9:50 am
Session 2 : NEW TECHNOLOGY 10:00 am – 11:40 am
Session 3 : CLINICAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 11:50 am – 1:30 pm
Session 4 : PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING EMERGENCY MEDICINE 1:40 pm – 3:10 pm
Session 5 : PhD STUDENT and RESEARCH SESSION 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Session 6 : STUDENTS SESSION 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
CLOSING CEREMONY AND PTMR AWARDS 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Friday — April 11, 2025

Opening: 6 pm – 8 pm

Opening Session : KEYNOTE LECTURES

Strengthening Emergency Medicine Worldwide: The IFEM Journey — Dr. Saleh Fares Al-Ali (IFEM President)
Elder Abuse: Where to look for it — Dr. Robert Leach (EUSEM President)

Saturday — April 12, 2025

8:00 am – 7:10 pm

Session 1 : EDUCATION / SIMULATION 8:00 am – 9:10 am

Moderators:

Prof. Judith Tintinalli (USA)
Prof. Monica Gaddis (USA)

Emergency Medicine. The New Paradigm Prof. Judith Tintinalli (USA)
Emergency Ultrasound: Past, Present and Future Prof. O. John Ma (USA)
Simulation in Low-Resource Setting Assist. Prof. Demet Ari (Emergency Medicine Department, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Türkiye)

Discussion 9:00 am – 9:10 am

Coffee Break 9:10 am – 9:25 am

Session 2 : TACTICAL AND COMBAT EMERGENCIES MILITARY SESSION 9:25 am – 11:15 am

Moderators:

Prof. Dinas Vaitkaitis (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Anita Podlasin (Lodz, Poland)
Prof. Mariusz Goniewicz (Lublin, Poland)

Hospital resilience. Can civilian hospitals ideally prepare for war? Prof. Dinas Vaitkaitis (Kaunas, Lithuania)
CBRNE Medicine Project: Emergency Medical Management of patients in the Emergency Department (Projekt CBRNE medycyna: Postępowanie ratowniczo-medyczne z pacjentem w szpitalnym oddziale ratunkowym) Arkadiusz Trzos MD PhD, dr Barbara Seweryn (Cracow, Poland)
Tourniquets on the Battlefield: efficacy and risks Natalia Izhytska (Lviv, Ukraina)
The use of white phosphorus. One of the aggressive elements of Russia’s war against Ukraine Roman Liakhovich, Olesia Tys, Yaroslav Kitsak (Ternopil, Ukraina)
Gunshot wounds of the limbs. Features of the course of the injury Olesia Tys, Roman Liakhovich, Yaroslav Kitsak (Ternopil, Ukraina)

Discussion 11:05 am – 11:15 am

Coffee Break 11:15 am – 11:30 am

Session 3 : TRAUMA 11:30 am – 1:05 pm

Moderators:

Prof. Lisa Moreno-Walton (USA)
Dr Rakesh Jalali (Poland)
Prof. Krystyn Sosada (Poland)

Updates of wound management at ED – Prof. Lisa Moreno-Walton (Past President of American Academy of Emergency Medicine – AAEM, USA)
Traumatic cardiac arrest – Lithuanian experience Vytautas Aukstakalnis MD PhD (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno)
Rethinking Overuse in Minor Head Trauma Kristina Blaziene MD (Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno)
In search for “brain troponin”: S100B, GFAP and UCH-L1 as the markers of brain injury in ED Rakesh Jalali MD PhD (Poland)

Discussion 12:50 am – 1:05 pm

Lunch Break 1:05 pm – 2:00 pm

Session 4 : PEDIATRICS 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Moderators:

Dr Ffion Davies (Leicester, UK)
Prof. Lina Jankauskaite (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Prof. Andrzej Piotrowski (Warsaw, Poland)

Sudden cardiac death in children and young adults Ffion Davies (Leicester, UK)
Rapid assessment of pediatric patients using the pediatric assessment triangle Adan R Atriham (USA)
Choosing wisely in pediatric emergency Lina Jankauskaite (Kaunas, Lithuania)
5 things to do in approaching sick children Adan R Atriham (USA)

Discussion 3:20 pm – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break 3:30 pm – 3:40 pm

Session 5 : INFECTION AND SEPSIS PROBLEMS 3:40 pm – 5:10 pm

Moderators:

Prof. Georgios Notas (Greece)
Prof. Andrzej Piotrowski (Warsaw, Poland)

Identifying and managing Sepsis in the Pediatric Emergency Department Prof. Andrzej Piotrowski (Warsaw, Poland)
Identifying and managing Sepsis in the Emergency Department Prof. Georgios Notas (Greece)
Fever in a patient returning from abroad dr Andrzej Kuprianowicz (Poland)

Discussion 5:00 pm – 5:10 pm

Coffee Break 5:10 pm – 5:20 pm

Session 6 : TOXICOLOGY 5:20 pm – 7:10 pm

Moderators:

Prof. Jacek Anand (President of Polish Society of Toxicology, Poland)
Prof. Juliusz Jakubaszko (Poland)
Prof. Ziad N. Kazzi MD (Toxicology & Emergency Medicine; Vice President ACMT and Past President MENTOX)

Treatment of local anaesthesia toxicity Prof. Samy Ezzat Aziz (Cairo, Egypt)
Betablockers and calcium blocekrs poisonings Prof. Natalia Pawlas MD PhD (Poland)
Are synthetic opioids dangerous for emergency care providers? Marek Wiśniewski MD PhD (Poland)
Symptomatology and management of lamotrigine and pregabalin poisonings, with presentation of clinical cases Marcin Bitel MD PhD (Poland)
QT-prolongation caused by toxic agents-what are the new guidelines? Piotr Kabata MD PhD (Poland)

Discussion 7:00 pm – 7:10 pm

Sunday — April 13, 2025

8:00 am – 7:10 pm

Session 1 : POCUS IN ED 9:00 am – 9:50 am

Moderators:

Jim Connolly MD (UK)
Jacek Nowakowski MD (Poland)

Is there still place for physical examination? Jim Connolly MD (Past-President of EUSEM, UK)
Emergency Ultrasound in sport trauma Togay Evrin MD (Türkiye)

Discussion 9:40 am – 9:50 am

Coffee Break 9:50 am – 10:00 am

Session 2 : NEW TECHNOLOGY 10:00 am – 11:20 am

Moderators:

Prof. Paweł Ptaszyński (Poland)
Prof. Dorota Zyśko (Poland)

What should we know about LVAD Marta Zaleska-Kociec MD PhD (Warsaw, Poland)
Electrodeless cardiac stimulators Prof. Krzysztof Kaczmarek MD PhD (Lodz Poland)
High Technology to improve Emergency Department Triage Dr Carlos Garcia Rosas (Mexico)

Discussion 11:10 pm – 11:20 pm

Coffee Break 11:20 pm – 11:30 pm

Session 3 : CLINICAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Moderators:

Prof. Jarosław Drożdż (Poland)
Prof. Adam Nogalski (Poland)

BRASH Syndrome Prof. Jarosław Drożdż MD PhD (Poland)
Making Emergency Department a safe place for treating patients and teaching residents Maria Aini MD
US healthcare system — emergency medicine system flaws and solutions Maria Aini MD
Tips and Tricks you can employ to be a better teacher on your next clinical shift in the ED Assoc. Prof. Nicole Tyczyńska (USA)

Discussion 1:20 pm – 1:30 pm

Coffee Break 1:30 pm – 1:40 pm

Session 4 : PUBLIC BENEFIT ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING EMERGENCY MEDICINE 1:40 pm – 3:10 pm

Moderators:

Prof. Mariusz Siemiński (Poland)
Jolanta Chełmińska (Poland)
Assoc. Prof. Dariusz Timler (Poland)

Restoring Family Links Office Katarzyna Kubicius (Head of Polish Red Cross), Jolanta Chełmińska, Katarzyna Mikołajczyk (Poland)
International cooperation in Emergency Medicine – how to start a successful programme Alexandra Asrow MD Clinical Assistant Professor (USA)
Support of the Emergency Medical Service by EMT teams using the example of the Humanosh Emergency Medical Team Poland – Anna Kosterkiewicz BSc (Poland)

Discussion 3:00 pm – 3:10 pm

Lunch 3:10 pm – 4:00 pm

Session 5 : PhD STUDENT and RESEARCH SESSION 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Moderators:

Prof. Tomasz Boczek (Medical University of Lodz, Poland)
Wojciech Timler MD (Medical University of Lodz, Poland)
Adan Atriham MD (NATO, USA)

Wojciech Timler — Medication adherence in patients with cognitive disorders
Mateusz Gabryszewski — From accident scene to operating room: the role of ED teams in limb replantation success
Konrad Brzozowski — A clinical case of alkyl nitrite poisoning. Uncommon but potentially dangerous intoxication
Wojciech Środa — Emergency Radiology – when the surgeon can wait. A case description of vessel embolization in massive intra-abdominal bleeding
Wojciech Środa — Mediastinal emphysema and esophageal perforation – result of a stun grenade or the use of immobilization techniques?
Bartosz Tomczyk — Boerhaave Syndrome presenting as Severe Respiratory Distress: A Case Report of Emergency

Session 6 : STUDENTS SESSION 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Moderators:

Stud. Joanna Kempa (Medical University of Lodz, Poland)
Assoc. Prof. Małgorzata Chlabicz (Białystok, Poland)
Prof. Adam Durczyński (Łódź, Poland)

Amirhossein Fattahzadeh — Emergency vs. Elective Geriatric Admissions: Impact on Nutrition and Immunity
Joanna Kempa — Acute Emergency Department Complications Following Cosmetic Procedures: Orbital Injuries
Shivika Parmar, Maya Kuczak — Assessing the Lifestyle Habits and Well-being of Various Specialities in Poland: A Survey-Based Study
Michał Szramko — When Will I Become a Recorder? An Analysis of the Learning Curve of Medical Students in Recording Critical Interventions during Advanced Life Support.
Mateusz Józefowski — Differentiation of pneumothorax and emphysematous bulla in the emergency department. When should a pneumothorax be drained?
Erika Jokubauskaite — An Unusual Cause of Headache in the Emergency Department: A Case Report
Akvile Bucaite — Assessment of Diagnostic and Treatment Procedures for Patients Referred to the Emergency Department of LSMU Kaunas Clinics by Primary Care Physicians

CLOSING CEREMONY AND PTMR AWARDS 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Carlos A. García Rosas

He was born and raised in the city of Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico. where he
completed his studies up to high school and later emigrated to the City of Puebla
and then to Mexico City where he completed his studies of:
• Medical Surgeon from the Autonomous University of Puebla
• Later he completed the Specialty in Emergency Medicine, as a member of the
1st Generation. Within the Medical Services of the Department of the D.F.
(Today the Secretary of Health of Mexico City)
• He was accepted to do a Fellowship in Trauma & Critical Care, Subspecialty
in the United States of North America at the Washington Hospital Center,
Washington D.C.
Within his Work Experience
He has been an Assigned Physician in the Emergency Services at the Mexican
Social Security Institute, since March 1989 and in the Medical Services of the
Department of the Federal District, today the Secretary of Health of Mexico
City. He served as Deputy Medical Director at the Maternal and Child Hospital
of Cuajimalpa SMDDF,
He was Head of Service and Professor of the Specialty in Emergency Medicine
at the Mexican Social Security Institute. In the private sector he worked in
several Hospitals in Mexico City. He was the First Medical Director of the
“Ameri-Med Ambulatory Care & Hospitals” Project in Puerto Vallarta, and he
was the one who brought the original project to Mexico.
Among his Academic Activities
He has written and published multiple research papers on Emergency
Medicine in National and Foreign Journals, among which the following stand
out:
The Teaching of Emergency Medicine in the Pan-American Journal of Trauma
He developed and published a “New Method to review patients in the
emergency room called “Pneumonic Name Mmexico Evaluation”, published
in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
He is a reviewer of several chapters of the book “Study Guide of Emergency Medicine”
Fifth International Edition in English, 2000, Author, Judith Tintinaly MD
Author and editor
1.- Basic Resuscitation Care Manual to save lives 1989 first edition and
1995 second edition, Spanish language.
2.- Emergency Medicine in Mexico and the World, 2008
3.- Manual in Emergency Medicine,
First edition, 2017, ISBN 978-607-9756-50-5
Prologue: Judith Tintinalli
4.- The Tragic Ten in Emergencies + Covid-19
First edition, September 2023.
ISBN 978-607-97565-1-2
Copyright Carlos Aurelio Garcia Rosas
Prologue: Herman Delooz, 1st President Eusem.
5.- History of Pandemics and their impact until Covid-19
First edition, 2025.
ISBN in process
Copyright. Carlos Aurelio Garcia Rosas
He is the Creator and Director of the “Emergency Course Mexico” (1997
present) which has been taught in different parts of the country and abroad. It
consists of 20 curricular hours with topics related to Cardiovascular
Emergencies and Trauma.
He has taught Basic and Advanced Cardio Cerebro Pulmonary Resuscitation
courses for Doctors, Nurses, Emergency Medical Technicians and the General
Public, in Public and Private Schools of the Country since 1986 - to date. He
was the one who brought the first CPR course by the American Heart
Association in 1989.
He was also the one who taught for the first time together with fellow
physicians in Mexico within the Mexican Society of Emergency Medicine the
ACLS and ATLS courses.
He has given various conferences on Emergency Medicine and Trauma in
Mexico, and in more than 35 countries.
He has organized medical conferences, courses, national, international and
world congresses, diplomas, as head of the organizations he founded:
In addition to having participated as Speaker, Track Chair, Moderator, of the
Mediterranean Congress, in the United States of America, Europe, and various
parts of the world such as: Canada, United States, Costa Rica, Colombia,
Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Peru, Spain, France, Italy,
Poland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Athens, Greek Islands, Crete, Kos, Portugal,
Turkey, Croatia, Glasgow, Berlin, among others.
He has also participated in the development of the “Mexican Official Standards”
on “Prehospital Medical Care”, “Emergency Services Equipment”, “Emergency
Medical Care”, “Emergency Education”, “Preparation of the Clinical Record,
in Emergency Notes, etc.
Among the achievements in Mexican Medicine are:
Having been the Founding President of:
1.- Mexican Society of Emergency Medicine (SMME)
2.- Mexican Board on Emergency Medicine (CMMU)
3.- Mexican Committee for Heart Care and Trauma
4.- Mexican Academy of Emergency Medicine
5.- World Organization of Emergency Medicine
In addition:
Having shared the “World Level Forums” with doctors that he only knew about
from their published books and articles, and with whom he finally ended up
being friends and colleagues such as; Dr. Judith Tintinalli, Dr. Peter Rosen, Dr.
Howard Champion, Dr. Herman DeLooz, Dr. Juliusz Jakubazco, Dr. Dominique
Pateron. Dr. Joshep Lex Jr. Dr. Tony Martin, Dr. Roberta Petrino, Dr. Mario
Golocovsky. Dr. George Podgorny, Dr. Basar Cander Etc.
Who were the Founders of Emergency Medicine in the United States, Europe,
Belgium, Poland, France, Ireland, Turkey, among many others.
What he is most proud of is having raised the name of Mexico and his
hometown Apizaco and that the World knows

Amin Antoine Nabih Kazzi, MD, FAAEM, MAAEM

Dr. Amin Kazzi is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine & the Founding Former Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the American University of Beirut (AUB). In 2010, he moved on to serve for 5 years as the Deputy Chief of Staff at the AUB Medical Center. In 2016, he was appointed & served as the official Advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Health his Excellency Wael Abu-Faour. As a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, he currently practices full-time at the AUB Emergency Department while serving as Editor-in-Chief for the Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine & Acute Care (MedJEM) and as President for the Mediterranean Academy of Emergency Medicine (MAEM) & for the Lebanese Society of Emergency Medicine (LSEM) in the Lebanese Order of Physicians.

Dr Kazzi completed his education (MD) at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (MD 1988). He completed categorical residency training in Emergency Medicine in Detroit, Michigan (1991), at one of the first, best and largest specialist training programs in the USA. He was selected a chief resident with distinction then as a full-time faculty in the busy Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit for 1 year. Once Board Certified in Emergency Medicine, he moved back to Southern California, where he practiced for 14 years as a faculty in the Emergency Departments of two of the main Level I Trauma & tertiary care centers: the University of California, Irvine. He also practiced part-time in private community facilities such as at West Bloomfield’s Urgent Care (1989-1990), Cottage Hospital in Grosse Pointe Farms (1991-1992) & the Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills (1992-1993).

Dr Kazzi is internationally renowned in the field of Emergency Medicine (EM) for his leadership role conceptualizing, establishing & running for the last 23 years as Executive Chair & co-President the exceptional Mediterranean EM Congress, the premier multinational international conference for the specialty, as well as for his service in a variety of executive, academic and leadership roles in several professional societies.

This included service as President for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), for its California Academy of Emergency Medicine (CAL/AAEM) & the Lebanese Society for Emergency Medicine (LSEM). In 2014, he established the Mediterranean Academy of Emergency Medicine (MAEM), a regional multi-national professional platform to advance the field, the specialty, & the specialist in Emergency Medicine.

He authored more than 60 scholarly publications and has given more than 300 invited presentations across the world. He founded and published as Chief Editor two editions of the “Rules of the Road for Medical Students.” He also played a key role as founding Vice Chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and as founding managing editor for the California Journal of Emergency Medicine (which later became the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine). More recently, he was appointed as a founding Chief Editor for the Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine & Acute Care (Med-JEM) which target the developing nations all globally.

Dr Kazzi earned a number of key international leadership and recognition awards, the principal ones being the 2nd out of 3 recipients of the honorary designation as Master of the Academy of Emergency Medicine (MAAEM), the (European Society of Emergency Medicine) EuSEM & AAEM Founder’s Award, the AAEM International Leadership Award, the Resident Association Special Recognition Award, the Robert McNamara National Academic Achievement Award, & the David Wagner Award for longstanding special national (US) impact in the specialty.

More recently, the INDUSEM-WACEM (World Academic Council of Emergency Medicine) granted him in Mumbai “the 2021 Leader of the Year Honorary Award.”

Most importantly, In September 2015, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Board of Directors voted unanimously to rename its annual international leadership award “the Amin Kazzi International Emergency Medicine Leadership Award” in appreciation for his longstanding exceptional service and profound contribution to AAEM and to the international development of Emergency Medicine.

In addition to his full-time position at AUBMC, Dr Kazzi established, staffed & managed with his late spouse, Dr Maria Cristina Costin Kazzi, the first licensed Urgent Care Center in Lebanon, along with an ambulatory care center in the underserved region of Damour to attend to the medical needs of a region where such infrastructure was ravaged by the civil war & had not recovered. Providing service to more than 14,000 patients per year, Damour Medical Center (DMC) maintained an affiliation with the American University of Beirut (2015-2021).

As of February 2017, and after Dr Cristina Kazzi unfortunately passed away, Dr Kazzi assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer for DMC & as its Urgent Care Medical Director while still serving full-time as a Professor at the American University of Beirut. DMC provides a “Priority Medical Care “ concierge service to select patients and is equipped as a free-standing emergency department.

More recently, as of October 2023, as an elected President for the Lebanese Society of Emergency Medicine, in the Lebanese Order of Physicians, Dr Kazzi organized and participated a series of seminars as well as co- organized a number of national training initiatives to prepare all 150 hospitals in Lebanon to the high risk of war and mass casualty incidents. He was appointed to represent the Order of Physicians and its Lebanese Society of Emergency Medicine as their physician-representative on the Public Health Emergency Operation Center- PHEOC. He recruited, selected and oversaw the physicians who have been, since then, serving in these training efforts, for the Ministry of Health, the WHO, ICRC, MSF alongside with the Lebanese Orders of Nurses and of Physicians.

As a 1985 recipient of the Lebanese Presidential Bachir Gemayel Honorary Award, he had committed to acquiring knowledge and developing skills unavailable in Lebanon, and to bringing that home. So, he did… Dr Kazzi returned to Beirut in 2006 to establish the specialty of Emergency Medicine in Lebanon and establish the proper standards for excellence in delivering emergency medical care. Working with an exceptional team of stellar faculty he recruited and mentored, Dr Amin Kazzi established an academic department of emergency medicine, the first in the Middle East, and the first out of 4 residency programs that have developed across Lebanon over the last 15 years. The AUBMC residency programs is accredited by the “American Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) International.” This is one of 8 in the world. Nearly 15 years after he moved back to Lebanon, the specialty is now established, recognized by most third-party payers and a recruitment target by all hospitals. The specialty has specialist training programs, national conferences or activities and a medical journal and contributions at the national and regional levels. In 1985, Dr. Kazzi promised. He delivered.