ECHO
PHILADELPHIA

Conference Agenda

ECHO Philadelphia | Sep 20, 7:00 AM – Sep 23, 5:30 PM Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown, 201 N 17th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA

Sun, Sep 20

7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
8 hours
Airborne Tactical Solutions Course - Day 1
Philadelphia Ballroom
Law Enforcement
Workshop
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4 hours
Working dog, Working Medicine
Critical Care
Workshop
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
7 hours
Advanced Procedures Cadaver Lab
Critical Care
Workshop
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM
2 hours 30 minutes
Surgical Airway Workshop
Critical Care
Workshop
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
2 hours
From Concept to Cab: Building High-Impact Simulation with Limited Resources
Leadership/Management
Workshop
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
4 hours
Training for Tragedy: Pilot Incapacitation & Helicopter Emergency Accident Training for Flight Crews & First Responders
Safety
Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2 hours
From Bedside to Beyond: Safe ECMO Transport in Action
Critical Care
Workshop
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
2 hours 30 minutes
Train the Trainer: Enhance Your Simulation Game
Leadership/Management
Workshop
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
2 hours 30 minutes
Advanced Mechanical Ventilation
Critical Care
Workshop

Mon, Sep 21

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
1 hour
Airborne Tactical Solutions Course - Day 2
Philadelphia Ballroom
Law Enforcement
Workshop
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
2 hours
Acute Stress Adaptive Protocol Demonstration
Mental Health
Workshop
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4 hours
Anatomical Dissection Lab
Critical Care
Workshop
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4 hours
Contract Aeromedical Evacuation in a Combat Zone
Search & Rescue
Workshop
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4 hours
Helicopter Underwater Egress Training
Critical Care
Safety
Workshop
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
4 hours
Beyond a Fancy BVM: Precision Ventilation & Advanced Strategies
Critical Care
Workshop
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
2 hours 30 minutes
Strengths Under Pressure: Leveraging Leadership Tendencies to Strengthen Public Safety Aviation Teams
Leadership/Management
Safety
Workshop
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
2 hours
Words Matter: Voice Tactics & Safety Listening
Leadership/Management
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1 hour
It’s Not Easy Being Wheezy
Critical Care
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1 hour
The Hardest Words: Delivering Death Notifications in Critical Care Transport
Critical Care
Mental Health
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
1 hour
Pressure to Fly! : This why is Return to Base so Deadly?
Safety
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
1 hour
When the baby comes too soon-neonatal resuscitation outside the NICU
Critical Care
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
1 hour
Introduction to Positive Psychology for Law Enforcement and First Responders
Mental Health
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
1 hour
Implementing Realistic Survival and Safety Training for HEMS Programs
Safety

Tue, Sep 22

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
30 minutes
ECHO Philadelphia – Opening Remarks & Scholarship Recognition
Freedom Ballroom
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
1 hour
Making a Difference...For the Long Term
Freedom Ballroom
Leadership/Management
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
30 minutes
Break - Exhibitor Hall
Liberty Ballroom
Breaks/Meals
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Implementing Incapacitated Pilot Procedures in HEMS Operations
Freedom Ballroom
Safety
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Leadership: The Silver Bullet of Airway Management
Critical Care
Leadership/Management
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Investing in Our People: Building a Sustainable Mental & Behavioral Health Program
Mental Health
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Tiny Patients, Big Responsibility: A Paramedic's Guide to NICU transports
Critical Care
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Closing the Distance: From Scene to Circuit via Helicopter-Facilitated In-Hospital ECPR
Critical Care
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
15 minutes
Break - Exhibitor Hall
Liberty Ballroom
Breaks/Meals
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Nitric Oxide and Epoprostenol Are Great… But What If You Don’t Have It?
Critical Care
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Hidden Altitude: Unlocking Potential in Ourselves and our Flight Teams
Leadership/Management
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Breathing Through a Straw- PEALS of Neonatal Intubation
Critical Care
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Safety Roundtable
Safety
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
When Everything You Do is WRONG – Resuscitation in RV Failure
Critical Care
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
1 hour
Lunch
Liberty Ballroom Foyer
Breaks/Meals
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
1 hour
Aviation Safety Panel
Freedom Ballroom
Safety
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
1 hour
Break - Vendor Hall Happy Hour
Liberty Ballroom
Breaks/Meals
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes
The Mission Ends. The Impact Doesn't.
Mental Health
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes
When The Worst Happens: Lessons Learned From Dealing With A Fatal Mishap
Leadership/Management
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes
So you want to change your practice: protocol development in the age of FOAMed
Leadership/Management
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes
Benchmarking Fatigue in US Helicopter Air Ambulance Pilots
Safety
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
30 minutes
Push Dose Pressors: Is Levophed Best over the Rest?
Critical Care
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
30 minutes
Break - Exhibitor Hall
Liberty Ballroom
Breaks/Meals
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
30 minutes
Data Without Fear: Building a Just Culture of Measurement in HEMS
Leadership/Management
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
1 hour
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
1 hour
Don’t CRASH your patient! Mitigating the physiologically difficult airway
Critical Care
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
1 hour
Exploring Human Factors in Critical Care Transport
Safety
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
1 hour
Wings of Survival: Divorce, Darkness, and the Text That Saved A Life
Mental Health
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
1 hour
Beyond the Procedure: A Systems-Based, Human-Centered Approach to Airway Management Training for Pediatric Transport Tea
Critical Care
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
30 minutes
The Quiet Drift: How “3 to Go, 1 to Say No” Is Becoming a Latent Risk in Air Medical Transport
Safety
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM
30 minutes
Wait, I am the Captain now? The emerging leader in HEMS/Critical Care Transport
Leadership/Management

Wed, Sep 23

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
1 hour
When Experience Speaks: Air Medical Safety Through the Eyes of Survivors
Freedom Ballroom
Safety
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
30 minutes
Break - Exhibitor Hall
Liberty Ballroom
Breaks/Meals
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
The Sky High Gap: Bridging the Divide Between Competence and Confidence in Critical Care Teams
Freedom Ballroom
Leadership/Management
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Lies, Damn Lies, and Lactate
Critical Care
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
MY IFR CONDITION When High Performers Lose Orientation — and How to Find the Instruments Again
Mental Health
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Evidence and Experience: Evaluating Emerging Literature
Critical Care
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour
Deliberate safety- combating the normalization of deviance.
Safety
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
15 minutes
Break - Exhibitor Hall
Liberty Ballroom
Breaks/Meals
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Two Years in One Presentation: What a Master’s in Psychology Taught Me About Responder Mental Health
Freedom Ballroom
Mental Health
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Austere and Aeromedical Environments
Critical Care
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
Leadership Roundtable
Leadership/Management
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
A Successful Failure: Safety in the Real-World
Safety
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
1 hour
One Ventricle, Two Ventricles, Pink Baby, Blue Baby........Case Discussions on Children with Congenital Heart Defects
Critical Care
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
1 hour
Lunch
Liberty Ballroom Foyer
Breaks/Meals
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
1 hour
Air Medical Panel
Freedom Ballroom
Critical Care
Leadership/Management
Safety
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
1 hour
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
15 minutes
Break
Breaks/Meals
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
30 minutes
Beyond Knobs and Dials: Four Ventilator Truths They Didn't Teach You
Freedom Ballroom
Critical Care
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
1 hour
Stabilizing More Than Patients: Leading When the Extremes Have Become the Norm
Leadership/Management
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
1 hour
Law Enforcement Session
Law Enforcement
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
1 hour
Mental Health Roundtable
Mental Health
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
1 hour
Tiny Cries, Big Relief Yes, Babies Feel Pain
Critical Care
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
1 hour
Can You Take Me Higher (Density Altitude)?
Critical Care
Safety
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
30 minutes
From Call to Cannulation: Operational Lessons from a High-Volume Mobile ECMO Program
Freedom Ballroom
Critical Care
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
15 minutes
Break
Breaks/Meals
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
1 hour
Closing Session - TBD
Freedom Ballroom
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
15 minutes
Closing Ceremony
Freedom Ballroom

Maps

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Conference Agenda

Sun, Sep 20

Airborne Tactical Solutions Course - Day 1

Working dog, Working Medicine

Advanced Procedures Cadaver Lab

Surgical Airway Workshop

From Concept to Cab: Building High-Impact Simulation with Limited Resources

Training for Tragedy: Pilot Incapacitation & Helicopter Emergency Accident Training for Flight Crews & First Responders

From Bedside to Beyond: Safe ECMO Transport in Action

Train the Trainer: Enhance Your Simulation Game

Advanced Mechanical Ventilation

Mon, Sep 21

Airborne Tactical Solutions Course - Day 2

Acute Stress Adaptive Protocol Demonstration

Anatomical Dissection Lab

Contract Aeromedical Evacuation in a Combat Zone

Helicopter Underwater Egress Training

Beyond a Fancy BVM: Precision Ventilation & Advanced Strategies

Strengths Under Pressure: Leveraging Leadership Tendencies to Strengthen Public Safety Aviation Teams

Words Matter: Voice Tactics & Safety Listening

It’s Not Easy Being Wheezy

The Hardest Words: Delivering Death Notifications in Critical Care Transport

Pressure to Fly! : This why is Return to Base so Deadly?

When the baby comes too soon-neonatal resuscitation outside the NICU

Introduction to Positive Psychology for Law Enforcement and First Responders

Implementing Realistic Survival and Safety Training for HEMS Programs

Tue, Sep 22

ECHO Philadelphia – Opening Remarks & Scholarship Recognition

Making a Difference...For the Long Term

Break - Exhibitor Hall

Law Enforcement Session

Implementing Incapacitated Pilot Procedures in HEMS Operations

Leadership: The Silver Bullet of Airway Management

Investing in Our People: Building a Sustainable Mental & Behavioral Health Program

Tiny Patients, Big Responsibility: A Paramedic's Guide to NICU transports

Closing the Distance: From Scene to Circuit via Helicopter-Facilitated In-Hospital ECPR

Break - Exhibitor Hall

Law Enforcement Session

Nitric Oxide and Epoprostenol Are Great… But What If You Don’t Have It?

Hidden Altitude: Unlocking Potential in Ourselves and our Flight Teams

Breathing Through a Straw- PEALS of Neonatal Intubation

Safety Roundtable

When Everything You Do is WRONG – Resuscitation in RV Failure

Lunch

Aviation Safety Panel

Break - Vendor Hall Happy Hour

Law Enforcement Session

The Mission Ends. The Impact Doesn't.

When The Worst Happens: Lessons Learned From Dealing With A Fatal Mishap

So you want to change your practice: protocol development in the age of FOAMed

Benchmarking Fatigue in US Helicopter Air Ambulance Pilots

Push Dose Pressors: Is Levophed Best over the Rest?

Break - Exhibitor Hall

Data Without Fear: Building a Just Culture of Measurement in HEMS

Law Enforcement Session

Don’t CRASH your patient! Mitigating the physiologically difficult airway

Exploring Human Factors in Critical Care Transport

Wings of Survival: Divorce, Darkness, and the Text That Saved A Life

Beyond the Procedure: A Systems-Based, Human-Centered Approach to Airway Management Training for Pediatric Transport Tea

The Quiet Drift: How “3 to Go, 1 to Say No” Is Becoming a Latent Risk in Air Medical Transport

Wait, I am the Captain now? The emerging leader in HEMS/Critical Care Transport

Wed, Sep 23

When Experience Speaks: Air Medical Safety Through the Eyes of Survivors

Break - Exhibitor Hall

Law Enforcement Session

The Sky High Gap: Bridging the Divide Between Competence and Confidence in Critical Care Teams

Lies, Damn Lies, and Lactate

MY IFR CONDITION When High Performers Lose Orientation — and How to Find the Instruments Again

Evidence and Experience: Evaluating Emerging Literature

Deliberate safety- combating the normalization of deviance.

Break - Exhibitor Hall

Law Enforcement Session

Two Years in One Presentation: What a Master’s in Psychology Taught Me About Responder Mental Health

Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Austere and Aeromedical Environments

Leadership Roundtable

A Successful Failure: Safety in the Real-World

One Ventricle, Two Ventricles, Pink Baby, Blue Baby........Case Discussions on Children with Congenital Heart Defects

Lunch

ECHO
PHILADELPHIA

SEPT 20 - 23, 2026
PHILADELPHIA, PA