OVMC TO HOST PREHOSPITAL TRAUMA CONFERENCE
01/16/07

Contact: Howard Gamble, MPH
Title: Marketing & Public Relations
Phone: (304)234-8135

Ohio Valley Medical Center will host a Prehospital Trauma Conference on Monday, January 29, 2007. The Prehospital Trauma Conference is for all Paramedics, Emergency Medical Technicians, Nurses and Physicians in the Ohio Valley. The conference will be held in the Nurses’ Residence Auditorium at OVMC with registration and dinner at 6:00pm and the program beginning at 6:30pm.
The program will feature a presentation entitled; “Time is Neurons" Assessment and Management of the Acute Stroke Patient, presented by Todd Crocco, M.D., WVU Department of Emergency Medicine, Interim Chair of the WVU Department of Emergency Medicine and Co-Chairperson of the WV Stroke Pilot Project.

The program will cover the time constraints of current stroke treatment regimes, an overview of the Prehospital Cincinnati Stroke Scale and a discussion of what prehospital providers can do to educate the public on stroke awareness.

The Prehospital Trauma Conference is part of the Joint Community Trauma Program of Ohio Valley Medical Center and Wheeling Hospital. Both trauma centers serve as a regional resource for trauma prevention and trauma education for physicians, nurses, prehospital and other health providers. The Joint Community Trauma Program serves Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler, Belmont, Harrison, Monroe, Jefferson and Washington counties in the greater Ohio Valley.

CEU contact hours will be awarded upon successful program completion. For information or to register the January 29th conference, please call OVMC at (304) 234-8852 or Wheeling Hospital at (304) 243-3569.

Ohio Valley Medical Center, located in Wheeling West Virginia, and East Ohio Regional Hospital, located in Martins Ferry Ohio, is a 340 bed combined organization providing quality primary and tertiary healthcare to the Ohio Valley. Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corporation is the integrated health care delivery system comprising of the two hospitals, River Health Enterprises and Family Service-Upper Ohio Valley.