Inside the Gathering of Eagles: Part 1

The 18th annual EMS State of the Sciences Conference—more commonly referred to as the Gathering of Eagles—convened in Dallas, TX, on February 19 and 20, 2016, hosted by Paul Pepe, MD, MPH, who is a featured speaker at EMS World Expo, October 3–7 in New Orleans, LA.

In a perennially packed house, one meaty presentation followed another, providing EMS practitioners with a steady stream of ingenious “beyond state-of-the-art” material revolving around ways to provide better EMS patient care and operations.

In Part 1 of a multipart series, we highlight three presentations that focused on mass gathering and disaster management issues:

• Limb-and-Life Decisions: Are you ready to perform a field amputation?
• Preparing for the Pope: Papal visit was unchartered territory
• New Orleans Primes for Chemical Disasters: The Crescent City gets ready for sudden spills

Visit https://gatheringofeagles.us/ for 2016 conference presentations, from which the accompanying articles are drawn, and preview information for the 2017 Gathering of Eagles.