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Emergency Medicine is a hands-on S.T.E.A.M. camp designed for children ages 10 to 15 that explores medical science, vital signs, human anatomy, field medicine, and surgical procedures. Anatomy & Dissection: Campers explore body systems through hands-on projects, including performing a fetal pig dissection, building articulated hand models with straws and twine, constructing working lung models, and mapping organs on life-size body outlines. Clinical Skills & Diagnostics: Participants learn to evaluate vital signs by using stethoscopes to listen to heartbeats and breathing, practicing with blood pressure cuffs, measuring temperatures, and analyzing real broken bone X-rays. First Aid & Surgical Techniques: Young surgeons master emergency response by practicing the "Check-Call-Care" protocol, properly dressing and wrapping wounds, and learning real suturing techniques using medical practice kits. Pathology & Microbiology: The curriculum delves into disease and infection as campers grow their own bacteria cultures in agar-filled petri dishes, model Streptococcus bacteria using play dough, and simulate how blood clots.
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