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16 EMSWORLDEXPO.COM • #EMSWORLDEXPO NAEMT WORKSHOPS Workshops sponsored by Jones & Bartlett Learning & Markel 1-DAY WORKSHOP: OCTOBER 3, 2016 8 a.m.–5 p.m. All Hazards Disaster Response (AHDR) Beta course Be a part of feld testing an exciting new NAEMT course! AHDR is for prehospital providers who care for patients in a disaster or mass casualty event. The course empowers all prehospital practitioners with knowledge and skills to manage patients during the initial timeframe of a disaster or mass casualty event. The content is presented in the context of realistic scenarios and the course culminates with a large-scale mass casualty event. The course highlights a team-based strategy to approaching the most common MCIs. Interactive learning modules make for a highly engaging and practical course with imperative skills. Participants will receive 8 hours of CECBEMS-approved credit. 1-DAY WORKSHOP: OCTOBER 4, 2016 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Geriatric Education for Emergency Medical Services (GEMS) Advanced Beta course Be a part of feld testing a new NAEMT course! Building on NAEMT's Geriatric Education for EMS (GEMS) Core course, the Advanced course is highly interactive and empowers practitioners with enhanced skills and knowledge they need to take care of geriatric patients' unique medical, social and environmental challenges. This immersive educational format focuses on the integration of critical thinking into real-world application. Designed as an 8-hour course for both EMTs and paramedics, the Advanced course highlights key skills such as the transport of patients with tracheostomies, feeding tubes, PICC lines, home ventilators, LVADs and much more. Don't miss the opportunity to participate in this beta course and provide feedback on this important new course before its offcial launch at the end of 2016. Participants will receive 8 hours of CECBEMS-approved credit and the textbook. 2-DAY WORKSHOPS: OCTOBER 3–4, 2016 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS), 2e course Experience the 2nd edition of NAEMT's AMLS course—new, current medical content, challenging critical thinking scenarios, and an updated AMLS Patient Assessment Pathway. AMLS is a 16-hour course that provides a solid knowledge base to enable beginning and experienced prehospital care providers to diagnose medical patients with urgent accuracy. Practitioners at all levels of practice will enjoy this interactive course that emphasizes the AMLS Patient Assessment Pathway, an important guide for assessing patients with medical conditions. Participants will receive 16 hours of CECBEMS-approved credit. The textbook, ebook and AMLS Mobile Reference Guide are included. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course Tactical Emergency Casualty Care is NAEMT's 16-hour civilian tactical care course. The TECC course takes the lessons learned from the TCCC military program and adapts them to the civilian environment. While this course does not teach operational tactics, it serves as the foundation for medical support in austere environments. While the course has a tactical slant, it takes an all-hazards approach to providing care outside the normal operating conditions of most EMS agencies. NAEMT's TECC course is endorsed by the American College of Surgeons and meets the Committee on TECC guidelines. Participants will receive 16 hours of CECBEMS-approved credit and the textbook.