The North Texas Point of Care (NT-POC) is a premier network supporting cross disciplines and diversities
of POCT that include nursing, lab, information technology and ancillary staff. We will provide a forum for the
discussion of POCT (point-of-care testing) and the complexities in the care and treatment of our patients.

NT-POC Network
Education Conference

May 16, 2008 0800-1600

Medical City Dallas Hospital

7777 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230

Care Tower E, Med City Hall

 

Agenda I Registration I Speakers I Directions

Agenda

  • 0800 to 0900 – Registration & Continental breakfast

  • 0900 to 1000 – Point of Care Testing and the Congenital Heart Surgery Patient


    •  Eric N. Mendeloff, M.D. – Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery

  • 1000 to 1100 – Sepsis and Lactic Acidosis


    •  Thomas Ahrens, DNS RN CCNS FAAN

  • 110 to 1200 – Managing the Quality of Blood Gas Testing Services


    •  Timothy Skelton, M.D. PhD

  • 1200 to 1400 – Lunch and vendor exhibits

  • 1400 to 1600 – POCC Round Table: Compliance and Competency

    • 5.0 P.A.C.E Credits Available. Medical City Dallas Hospital Laboratory is an
      accredited ASCLS       P.A.C.E.ฎ Provider (#191)

Registration

  • Registration can be made prior to conference or day of conference –

    • Fee: $25.00/person on day of conference or mail check to Med City:

    • Payable to MCDH Community Fund

    • Mail in registration form & payment

    • Medical City Dallas Hospital

    • 7777 Forest Lane A-200

    • Attention: Vickie Vandulman A-200 – Hospital Lab

    • Dallas, Texas 75230

    • Lunch & refreshments provided by Medical City Dallas Hospital

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Speaker Biography

 

Point of Care Testing and the Congenital Heart Surgery Patient

  • Eric N. Mendeloff, MD – Director Congenital Heart Surgery at Medical City Children’s Hospital

    • Medical education: University of California,

    • Internship: University of Michigan Hospital, 5/92

    • Residency: Thoracic Surgery, National Institutes of Health, 6/90

    • Fellowship: Thoracic Surgery (Pediatrics), Washington University School of Medicine, 6/95

    • Board Certification(s): Thoracic Surgery - American Board Of Thoracic Surgery, 1995

Sepsis and Lactic Acidosis

  • Tom Ahrens, DNS, RN, CS, FAAN - Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri

    • Ahrens is a research scientist in nursing with a focus on hemodynamic and cardiac assessment in trauma. He is involved in technology application, particularly in terms of hemodynamic monitoring and capnography. He lectures on various critical care topics both nationally and internationally.

Managing the quality of blood gas testing services

  • Tim Skelton, MD, PhD – Core Laboratory Director, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA

    • Graduate School and Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1993

    • Internship: Massachusetts General Hospital (Clinical Pathology), Boston, MA, 1993-95

    • Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital (Pathology Research), Boston, MA, 1995-97

    • Academic Appointments: Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine

    • Board Certified: American Board of Pathology (Clinical Pathology), 1997

Point of Care Testing Round Table Discussion – Compliance and Competency Assessment

  • Learning Objectives:

    • Apply JCAHO standards into the daily management of POCT

    • Apply CAP/CLIA standards into the daily management of POCT

    • Calibration verification of test methods

    • Equivalent quality control methods.

    • Quality Control documentation means.

    • Operator Competency Training methods

    • Operator Competency assessment methods.

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Directions

 

 

From North Dallas Tollway

  • Traveling North: Take the Forest Lane exit and turn right.

  • Travel east to Park Central Drive.

  • Turn left and you'll see the hospital on your right.

  • Traveling South: Take the East 635 Freeway exit.

  • Travel east and exit south on 75 Central Expressway.

  • Exit Forest Lane, turn right and the hospital will be on your right at the corner of Forest Lane and Park Central Drive.

From Love Field Airport

  • Take a left (going east) on Mockingbird Lane.

  • Stay on Mockingbird until you come to Central Expressway. Cross over the expressway and turn left (going north) and enter the freeway headed north.

  • Take the Forest Lane exit. At Forest, turn left under the freeway.

  • Stay in your right hand lane on Forest.

  • You'll see the hospital on your right.

  • Turn right onto Park Central at the light.

From DFW International Airport

  • Take the north exit leaving the airport.

  • Take the I-635 (also known as LBJ Freeway) exit going east.

  • Stay on I-635 until you see the exit for Central Expressway.

  • You will pass under I-35 and the Dallas North Tollway en route toward Central.

  • Take the I-75 exit south on Central Expressway to the Forest Lane exit.

  • Stay in your right hand lane on Forest.

  • You'll see the hospital on your right.

  • Turn right onto Park Central at the light.

  • Park off Merit Drive in CareTower E

  • Emergency Department parking.

  • Voucher will be in your packet

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