Mass Casualty Night - Looking for Volunteers

This Thursday is a special night.  Mass Casualty night is an opportunity for students to "bring it all together" to apply all they've learned in assessment and treatment to a broad variety of situations in what can be challenging conditions.  It's a highlight for the class.

We're looking for 30+ volunteers to help.  These volunteers would be the "patients" for the simulation.  Here's how it works - while the students are hearing a lecture in backcountry ski patrol skills, we take the volunteer patients aside, brief them on their injury(ies), and place them around the room which has been configured as if a significant disaster has taken place.  When ready, we start with the students triaging the patients and then treating each as is necessary, taking them to safety, and working until the room is clear.

For the patients, it's quite a fun event - they get to have some fun acting, see what you've been up to for the last 12 weeks, and perhaps learn a little bit as well.

The more patients, the better.  So, contact your friends, colleagues, etc. and recruit them to help out.  We'll need them from 7PM to appx. 10PM.  While we'll do this indoors, they should wear old clothes.

Location is the same as our class: NetApp, Sunnyvale.  Directions here.

Sign up sheet located here.

Practice, Practice, Practice

We have several extra-class practice sessions upcoming.  Great opportunity to practice skills, try variants, and discuss specific questions.

Highly encourage all of you to attend as many as possible.

Attached pic is from tonight's session. Curtis looks thrilled, ahey?

Scenario Observations - Tips & Areas to Work On

Here are the slides we used in class to discuss some commonalities/areas to work on that we've observed in recent scenarios.  Slides located here.  Have a look and given them some thought/practice.

This Weekend's Written Final Practice Exam

Final exam 2 from 2011, located here.  Be ready to discuss in class.

Final Written Exam Study - Exam for Review Next Week

Next week, we'll review Final Exam 1 from 2012.  View/download it here.  Good luck.

Upcoming Events

As we discussed in class, we have two important upcoming events:

1. Pediatric Assessment Practice – Nov. 5 – Bring kids.  Will do pediatric assessments first @ 7PM

2. Mass Casualty Event – Nov. 7 – Bring your friends.  Lots of them.  Looking for 30 people. 7PM to 9PM.  You can use the sign up sheet here.

Recruit your friends, kids, friend's kids, etc.!

Midterm Feedback

Good review of the midterm scenarios in class.  Here's the slide we used that summarized the commonalities we observed.