Monday, February 16th

It's getting both more difficult and at the same time easier to challenge the Semester students.  They know more, which allows them to respond more appropriately to emergencies, but this new knowledge allows the instructors to give the students more diverse and complicated scenarios.  For example, today students responded in small groups to a person with a severe arterial bleed, another with a rupturing ectopic pregnancy, a third with severe dehydration and a fourth with full thickness burns to the hands.   In addition, as a group they extricated a patient who was entrapped under a vehicle (see photo for the class post-scenarios).  

On the didactic end, they covered management of envenomations as well as management of anaphylaxis.