Schedule

NRBC Conference Agenda
Topics and times subject to change

 

Northeast Region Burn Conference – November 8-9th, 2024
Newark Liberty Marriot, Newark NJ

Time Pre-conference Thursday, November 7, 2024
7:00 am – 5:00 pm ABLS Instructor Course
8:00 am – 4:00 pm Rehab Conference: “Rehabilitation & Nursing: Working together in burn care”
NRBC Conference, Friday, November 8, 2024
8:00 am – 11:00 am Exhibitor Set-up
11:00 am-12:00 pm Lunch with Exhibitors
12:00 pm-  12:15 pm Newark Fire Department Pipe Band

Welcome: Alisa Savetamal, MD, FACS, FABA & Michael A. Marano, MD

12:15 pm-1:15 pm Plenary I: ABA Presidential Address: “Why burn care is still the best job ever- yet challenges”

This session describes the speaker’s personal journey from surgeon to president of the American Burn Association. Discussion will provide context for North American and global burn care in the present day.  Historical progress in burn surgery, along with recent innovations dramatically changing the field will also be addressed.

1:15 pm –      2:45 pm Correlative Session I

Correlative Session II

Correlative Session III

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Break with Exhibitors
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm ERBDC/NRBC/ABA Updates
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Plenary II: “How we do it: Engaging the interdisciplinary team in burn care”

All burn centers are structured differently and need unique strategies for team engagement to provide care.  A multi-disciplinary approach, integrating physicians, nurses, therapists, psychology, rehabilitation and other health professionals will show how this facilitates wound healing.

5:00 pm – 5:15pm Case Studies
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm Welcome Reception
NRBC Conference Saturday, November 9, 2024
7:00 am – 7:55 am Breakfast with the Exhibitors
7:55 am – 8:00 am Welcome back: Michael A. Marano, MD
8:00 am – 9:00 am Plenary III: “The Legacy of the SHU Dormitory Fire”

This session recounts events of a college dormitory fire and its lasting impact on disaster planning twenty-five years later.  Members of the fire service, burn team and survivors will share personal stories and professional insight on lessons learned.

9:00 am – 10:00 am Correlative Session IV

Correlative Session  V

Correlative Session VI

10:00 am – 10:30 am Break with Exhibitors
10:30 am-11:30pm Challenging Case: “Too hot…and too cold”

This session examines clinical challenges faced by the burn team determining interventions and surgical priorities for a patient critically burned, with a simultaneous aortic occlusion.  Coordination and on-going decision-making between the surgical and burn teams to provide the best possible outcomes was required to manage both life-threatening conditions.

11:30 am – 12:00 pm Case Studies
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch with Exhibitors
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Plenary IV: “The psychosocial impact of burn

care on the team”

This session addresses and prepares providers with some of the individual and collective adversities or barriers faced by providers treating a diversity of burn patients.

2:00 pm –

3:00 pm

Correlative Session VI

Correlative Session VII

Correlative Session VIII

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Break w/Exhibitors
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Correlative X

Correlative XI

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Pro/Con I: “Pressure & Scar management: splints, garments when and how”

This debate will examine the controversies associated with breaking blisters or keeping them intact.

 

Pro/Con II: “A thin line between love and tracheotomies in the burn unit”

This debate will examine controversies related respiratory management.

5:30 pm Closing remarks: Alisa Savetamal, MD, FACS, FABA & Derek Bell, MD