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 |
