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• Vendor for KANA Fall Meeting 2025

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
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    8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

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  The Kansas Association of Nurse Anesthetists (KANA) is pleased to invite your company to participate in the Fall 2025 educational meeting to be held on October 25th at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus in Overland Park. We hope that you and your company can be part of our educational meeting. We anticipate 50+ CRNA participants and 50+ students. 

  Company representatives will set up their displays on Saturday morning. Registration and continental breakfast for attendees will precede the first lecture that begins at 8:00 AM. You will be allowed to set up starting at 7:00AM if you would like. 

  Meeting participants will have an AM and PM break in addition to lunch break to visit your displays.  The table fee, which includes breakfast and lunch on Saturday for 2 representatives, is $500.00 for this meeting. In addition to the registration as a vendor for the meeting, we would like to offer you a ad in our journal Kanesthesia. The journal is received by all KANA members and you will have the opportunity to reach those CRNAs not able to attend the meeting.

  KANA educational meetings afford you the opportunity to meet the people who provide more than 80% of the anesthesia services in the state of Kansas. Your participation is important to keep the CRNAs of Kansas informed and aware of the newest devices and products available. We hope you will consider attending and supporting the CRNAs of Kansas with your interest and products

  If your company wishes to sponsor a speaker, coffee break, lunch or reception. Please inquire regarding specifics. See the KANA website to view the agenda. 

  

  The Kansas Association of Nurse Anesthetists is not responsible for loss or damage to the exhibits from any cause. The exhibitor assumes the responsibility and liability for losses, damages and claims arising out of the exhibitors’ activity and will indemnify, defend and hold harmless the facility, its agents and KANA from any losses or damages.

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• KANA Fall Meeting 2025 (Session 1)

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
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    8:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, BEST Conference Center

  
  

  Session 1: 7:30 AM – 12:00 PM  4 or 5 hours CE                             

  7:30 – 8:00 AM                       Registration and Breakfast 

  8:00 – 9:00 AM                      The Business of Anesthesia: Knowing Your Worth, Matthew Zinder, MS, CH, CRNA

  9:00 – 10:00 AM                    The Business of Anesthesia: General Business 101, Matthew Zinder, MS, CH, CRNA

  10:00 – 10:30 AM                   Libation Break! Coffee, Bloody Marys, and Mimosas with Exhibitors        

  10:30 – 11:30 AM                  The Evolution of POCUS – Maveric, Eric Evert, CRNA, MSNA, DNAP

  11:30 AM – 12:30 PM            Lunch - KANA Fall Business Meeting & Legislative Update, KANA Lobby team

  (If you are not attending the lab. Lab will start at 12:30PM) 

  12:30-1:30                              Medical Missions: Pleasures and Perils, Insights from the Field, Bill Swartley, CRNA MS

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• KANA Fall Meeting 2025 (Session 2 - POCUS LAB)

  • When
    25 Oct 2025
  •  
    12:30 PM - 5:30 PM
  • Location
    KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, BEST Conference Center
  • Spaces left
    60

  
  

  • Session 2: 12:30 PM – 5:30 PM (60 participants max) Please see below for more information. 5 hours CE for hands on. 

    12:30 – 3:00 PM                     Group A will do Track 1 first and then switch

    3:00 – 5:30 PM                       Group B will do Track 2 first and then switch
                 

    Track 1: POCUS Hands-on Lab                                

    Stations

  •  Cardiac
  •  Gastric
  • Pulmonary

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    Track 2: Lectures

  • Session 1 – Cardiac Arrest in a Patient with Severe Pulmonary Hypertension during an EGD: A Case Presentation with a Favorable Outcome, Jacob Deeds
  • Session 2 – GLP-1 Agonist in the Perioperative Period: A Discussion on Current Multisociety Clinical Practice Guidance, Jacob Deeds
  • Session 3 – Case Study

  
  

  Information on the hands-on POCUS lab:

  The POCUS course will consist of multiple point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) skills taught by a well-known CRNA owned business, Maverick. The skills would be cardiac, gastric, and pulmonary POCUS assessments.  After completing the course requirements, the CRNA would be able to make faster and more accurate diagnoses, improve outcomes, and improve the overall level of anesthetic care provided by the CRNA. Each CRNA who completes the course would earn a Certificate of Completion and earn Class A CEUs. The course would consist of two parts: 1) online modules to be completed prior to the lab; and 2) the hands-on lab itself held at the KANA Fall Meeting on October 25th in Overland Park. Online Didactic Modules: 4-8 hours completed prior to lab This course is not a typical “death-by-PowerPoint” lecture. The modules are filled with interactive presentations, ultrasound videos, pre & post-tests, knowledge checks, and landmark target practice activities. These modules will be asynchronous allowing participants to take the course at their own pace and at their own location. The modules were developed by experienced and currently practicing CRNAs, education experts in pedagogy from Texas A&M University, and instructional designers. Hands-on Lab: 3 hours during the KANA Fall Meeting on October 25th in Overland Park In this half-day lab, CRNAs apply lessons from the online didactic modules to experiential training exercises in a clinical environment, developing confidence in using the latest ultrasound equipment on live models to perform point-of-care diagnoses. The flipped classroom model ensures the participants to get the repetitions they need to attain the POCUS skills.

  
  

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