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Vendor for KANA Fall Meeting 2025

25 Oct 2025 8:00 AM
America/Chicago
KANA Fall Meeting 2025 (Session 1)

25 Oct 2025 8:00 AM

KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, BEST Conference Center
America/Chicago
KANA Fall Meeting 2025 (Session 2 - POCUS LAB)

25 Oct 2025 12:30 PM

KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, BEST Conference Center

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Registration will open soon. Below is the tentative agenda for the KANA Fall Meeting:

- KANA Fall Meeting 2025 Agenda
  
  Saturday
  
  Session 1: 7:30 AM – 12:00 PM       4 hours CE (5 for students)                             $200 Member, $50 Student
  
  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
  
  12:30-1:30                              Breakout Session, Medical Missions: Pleasures and Perils, Insights from the Field, Bill Swartley, CRNA MS
  
  Session 2: 12:30 PM – 5:30 PM (60 participants) Please see below for more information. 5 hours CE $400
  
  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
- 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 25^th 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.