Carilion Clinic Life Guard Announces 6th Annual StarPoints Symposium

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 10th
Location: Vinton War Memorial (Vinton, VA)

Carilion Clinic Life-Guard and Carilion Clinic Corporate University are pleased to announce StarPoints Symposium 2010. This conference is designed for EMS providers, critical care nurses, physicians, or other health care providers who desire to enhance their knowledge of current trends of pre-hospital and emergency care.

Conference registration will be opening soon, with a deadline of April 1st. Register early to ensure your spot!

Conference highlights this year include:
-Air Care track
-Intro. to Tactical Medicine Track
-Intro. to Underwater Rescue Track
-Leadership Track

Also, back by popular demand, we will have Bob Page presenting at this year's conference.

Stay tuned for further conference and registration details.

Carilion Clinic Patient Transportation OMD helps in Haiti

Dr. Carol Gilbert, Trauma Surgeon and Operational Medical Director for CCPT has been deployed to Haiti. She was sent as a member of VA-1 DMAT to assist with medical treatment and relief. Dr. Gilbert is a seasoned trauma surgeon and has extensive experience in EMS/Rescue. Her lifesaving medical skills and experience will be a great asset to the relief efforts.

CCPT Congratulates the 2009 Employees of the Year

Carilion Clinic Patient Transportation Services has announced the 2009 Divisional Employees of the Year. Each year, CCPT staff are selected from their accomplishments throughout the year.

Bedford Division-Tamara Dennis

Blacksburg Division- Amelia Stevens

Communication Center- Erika Alford

Critical Care Life-Guard- Charlotte Clark

Franklin Division-Jake Davis

Giles Division-Mike Evans

Lexington Division-George Jones
Pre-bill Division-Anessa Sink

Radford Division- Kelly Stoots

Roanoke Division-Alicia Caldwell

Westlake Division-Carole Vanella

Congratulations to all of the 2009 Employees of the Year!

Life-Guard Crew Visits Franklin County EMT Class

The Life-Guard 10 crew recently made a visit to the Carilion Franklin Memorial helipad to do LZ safety training with a group of EMT students. Each semester we visit the upcoming EMTs and provide a classroom lecture on helicopter operations and safety, followed by an actual visit with the aircraft. The students always enjoy seeing the helicopter up close and learning more about our flight crews' roles. We like to think that we are introducing our team to future Life-Guard medics and nurses! Thanks to all who helped to make this class a success.

Carilion Clinic Life-Guard Team Competes in 2009 METI Cup Competition

The annual Air Medical Transport Conference always offers lots of wonderful educational opportunities for the industry. Carilion Clinic Life-Guard is very proud to have been represented in the well-known METI Cup Critical Care Skills Competition this year is San Jose, CA. Flight nurse Dianna Coffey and flight medic Chase Bower rose to the challenge for this year's event.
Twenty teams went head-to-head at showing off their real time, real situation skills on METI’s state-of-the-art patient simulators. We are very proud of Dianna and Chase making such a strong showing in this exciting event. See pics below of our team in action. Way to represent, gang!

Life-Guard Rolls Out New Carilion Clinic Stroke Alert Education for EMS Providers

The Life-Guard crew is excited to be part of one of Carilion Clinic's latest initiatives in providing the best emergency care possible for our communities: The Carilion Clinic Stroke Alert Program. This program allows for rapid recognition and response to those suffering acute stroke symptoms. Just as we have seen with the Heart Alert Program, this program starts with our EMS partners in the field. Early recognition of the stroke victim is the key not only to survival, but also optimal recovery. Thanks to Carilion Clinic's new program, EMS providers can activate a Stroke Alert from the field, allowing cutting edge teams and technologies to be prepared for the patient before they even arrive at the doors of Carilion Roanoke Memorial's emergency department.
A huge thanks to our Botetourt County EMS partners who hosted one of our Stroke Alert educational programs this week. Almost 30 providers showed up to learn the latest in emergency stroke care, as well as learn more about the new Carilion Clinic Stroke Alert Program.
If you would like to host a similar training for your EMS agency, please contact our Business Development Office at (540) 981-8303 or e-mail at mmorris@carilion.com.

Camp Carilion Visits CCPT

Carilion Clinic hosted the 3rd Annual Camp Carilion this week in the Roanoke Valley. This is an exciting opportunity for middle school students to explore health care career opportunities by visiting different departments throughout our hospital. This year's theme was cardiac care, both in the hospital as well as in the EMS system. The students were able to follow the treatment course of a heart-attack vicitim from the the time of a 911 call all the way through to the cardiac rehab. course. The students also learned the vaulable signs and symptoms of a heart attack and how to assist if needed.
On Day 2 of the camp, the students joined us here at CCPT to become officially certified CPR providers. This turned out to be a favorite of the week for the group (including our staff!)

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