Texas EMS Air Medical Track

 

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Texas Association of Air Medical Services
Air Medical Track -- Meeting Room TBD
2025 Texas EMS Conference
Monday, November 24, 2025

 

 

9:30-10:30 – “Taming the Toxins: Management of Toxicological Patients” – Michael Gooch DNP, APRN, CCP, FAASTN, FAANP, FAEN - Vanderbilt LifeFlight

11:15-12:15 – “Driving Pressure: An Innovative Approach to Mechanical Ventilation” – Brian Imdieke BASc, FP-C, CCP-C, NRP – North Memorial Air Care

1:30-2:30 –“Flight for Life: Unforgettable Missions and Lessons Learned” – Katelyn Dykas RN, EMT-P, CCRN, CFRN – Michigan Medicine Survival Flight

3:15-4:15 – “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?”: Human Factors, Heroism, and Hubris in HEMS” – Russell Griffin Ph.D. Candidate, MBA – Oklahoma State University  

4:30-5:30 – “Utilization of Shock Index for Advanced Airway Management” – Zane Atencio DNP-S, BSN, RN, CCRN, CFRN, NRP, FP-C – PHI Air Medical

  **Lecture order is as of 8/20/25 & may be subject to change

Disclosure to Learners - 5.0 Contact Hours for Nurses

This Nursing Continuing Professional Development activity is being jointly provided by CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System and the Texas Association Air Medical Services. CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Louisiana State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. LSNA Provider No. 4002075.

To receive contact hours for this educational activity, the participant must:

  • Register for activity and sign in accordingly
  • Attend 90% of the designated activity
  • Complete the learning assessment tool within the specified time frame

Once successful completion has been verified, a “Certificate of Successful Completion” will be provided, and 5.0 contact hours will be awarded.

** Note:  Air Medical Employees of TAAMS members may attend the Air Medical lectures for free following the process below:

When air medical crew members/attendees present to the conference, they must be in uniform and should go directly to the room that has been dedicated to the Air Medical Track lectures. Upon arrival there, Alicia McDonald (room monitor) will give them a badge that will have “Air Medical Track” printed on it. The badge will not have names or a scanning code, so it will be good only for the Air Medical Track. Access to the Air Medical Track does not include other Texas EMS Conference events, including the Exhibit Hall, other Conference classes, or Monday lunch. If Air Medical Track attendees who are not registered for the conference would like to receive EMS CE as well as nursing CE, they MUST tell the room monitor Alicia McDonald. She will assist with signing up for both EMS and nursing CE. She will also provide a printout to track EMS CE, which should be presented to DSHS if requested. Texas EMS Conference will keep the EMS sign-in sheets on file for five years.

IMPORTANT:  Signing in for EMS CE is required for the Air Medical Track only if you do not have a full-conference, scannable badge. Nursing CE is managed separately from EMS CE.

 

Lynn K. Lail

RN, BSN, CFRN, LP, CMTE

TAAMS Air Med Track Coordinator