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There were many attendees . . . . But they all sat in the back . . . Our first station is IO's, which we practice with real bone on real cadavers. Then, we practice get to needle decompress an induced pnuemothorax. BEandP and AnthonyM83 put their first intubations under their belts under the guidance of DustDevil, Akroeze, and the medical students. No pictures were allowed in these rooms for the privacy of the cadaver donors. Next is an airway station, which included various equipment, included two "video scopes" that made intubating a cinch. One dummy was even computer controlled, that allowed proctor to create edema and other difficulties intubating through his computer screen, realtime. Next was some practicing with surgical airways. We practiced on pig trachs to allow for multiple attempts, using different equipment. Here Dust performs his first incision into the cricothyroid membrane. Here Akroeze ponders what other impromptu surgeries he might get away with... Now, it's Brendan's turn. He jumps right into it. Things start heating up as AnthonyM83 heckles from the sidelines (Canadians were the prime joke targets for the weekend). Anthony takes a picture of the group (from Day 2...Sorry Jake and Chris) After spending almost five minutes showing a fellow EMT girl how to use his camera phone, Anthony is finally able to get in on one of the pictures. Yup, I'm as intense as always. Then, it's time for lunch. The group somehow ends up separated with ALS sitting on upper rows and BLS sitting on lower rows . . . hmmm. Anyway, then we back for a scenario where Brendan and Anthony save a life...with a little help from some local EMTs who do EMS for their university and another medic. The patient dummy was one of those state of the art ones that speaks, has a pulse, allows for taking actual accurate BP's,...and umm fully anatomically correct. The more experienced Dust, Akroeze, and others act as judges. Next station is Tac Med. Doczilla shows us his combat pack and various TQ's and hemostatic agents, as well as reviews the modified ABC's for combat trauma. Here Doczilla demonstrates an Israeli dressing (reminds me of a "BloodStopper" roll) on Alex. As much as I tried to convince him to do a real demonstration by amputating Alex's arm, he wouldn't allow it. Too much mess he said. I do have to say Doczilla turned out to be exactly how I thought he'd be. Great guy, great speaker, knows his stuff, and I recognized him immediately! Next we did the brain and heart stations, with anatomy lessons holding the real organs in our hands and explanations on what happens during CVA's and MI's, with review of 12-leads. Then, we went to the long-anticipated amputation station, which we ended up having to rush, through...but we all got a chance to cut some bone with different tools. No one got sick unlike the first day, apparently! Last station was a general cadaver anatomy station where I got to ask a bunch of questions relating patient conditions to actual anatomy...got to run the bowel (ref: House MD) and got great explanations on how different abdominal pains present (much better than any of the explanations I ever got in EMT school). The resident at that station was great. (and hawt) Lastly, Dust and I went out for some food and drinks with 'Zilla. Unfortunately, he couldn't quite hold his liquor and this is how we had after only 3/4 of a drink. I had to cut myself off too to make him feel better. Doczilla after one drink (with a meal):