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Presentation Description: Have you had a student who challenged your instructional authority?  Have you experienced a student who is wrong but insists they are correct?  Ever wonder how you can manage that student who constantly disrupts class conversation?  Engaging,...

Presentation Description: Within EMS, patient assessment practices for neurological emergencies frequently fall short of what is required to adequately identify abnormalities.  Come learn why many EMS providers are ill-equipped to assess and identify abnormal...

Presentation Description: There’s a reason why scaffolding is used in construction.  It provides essential support until the structure can stand on its own.  The same holds true for prehospital learning.  Want to know how instructional scaffolding increases your...

Presentation Description: Tired of students complaining about test questions?  Need a better way to assess test question validity?  What if you could determine the validity of a test question without looking at the question?  Discriminatory Item Analysis allows the...

Presentation Description: Understanding cellular physiology should be a foundational concept for EMS providers.  Without this foundation, it is difficult to appreciate why various disease processes cause specific physical manifestations within our patients. ...

Presentation Description: Is this wide beat rhythm ventricular tachycardia or SVT with aberrancy?  Without the proper information and resources, this can be a difficult question to answer.  This session will introduce participants to the information needed to...

Presentation Description: Heart failure affects more than 5.5 million Americans a year.  This presentation will cover common, as well as uncommon ways heart failure presents within patients.  Once heart failure is identified, current best practices for managing these...

Presentation Description: Performing a thorough physical assessment on patients is a critical skill for any EMS provider.  This session will focus on the various techniques associated with performing a thorough physical assessment.  Participants will perform and...

Presentation Description: Understanding various cardiac medications that influence the pathophysiology of patients suffering from cardiac conditions is important for EMS providers.  This session provides a simple and understandable approach to how cardiac medications...

Presentation Description: Differentiating between major thoracic injuries can sometimes be a challenging process.  An entertaining, but memorable method for approaching the scene size up will be introduced.  Participants will also be provided with a simple, yet...

Presentation Description: Have you ruled out diabetes but can’t explain your patient’s altered condition?  This interactive case study presentation highlights Addison’s disease, Cushing’s Syndrome, and Grave’s disease.  A nuts and bolts approach will be used to...

Presentation Description: These are not your run-of-the-mill orthopedic injuries.  Interactive case studies will be used to address the critical aspects for identifying Malgaigne, Pipkin, Chance, Jefferson, and Salter-Harris fractures.  Once identified, there are...

Presentation Description: There is a good chance you were taught cellular physiology in a very academic manner.  This session will address cellular “action potentials” in a manner that is anything but academic.  Interactive case studies will illustrate how cellular...

Presentation Description: Within EMS, patient assessment practices for neurological emergencies frequently fall short of what is required to adequately identify abnormalities.  Come learn why many EMS providers are ill-equipped to assess and identify abnormal...