![]() Paramedic students saw an average of 24.6 ± 16.6 pediatric patients in their clinical rotations and 5.6 ± 4.6 pediatric encounters in the field internship.įield encounters contribute more to the logit score than clinical encounters. The logit score becomes a reflection of the student’s ability to answer the question compared to the average question in that exam.įor the Fisdap Blue Paramedic exam’s pediatric-specific questions, the average student logit score was 2.1 ± 0.9, meaning students were likely to get the answer correct 88% of the time. Data verification was audited and validated by instructors and designated “good” if it was accurate and complete.Performance was defined by paramedic students on test items with a logit score model where the average item difficulty logit score centered at 0. Paramedic graduates consented to their anonymous data being prospectively gathered and used for research. No research exists examining the number of pediatric field encounters and performance of paramedic students on the pediatric section of the Fisdap Blue Paramedic Exam.Ī retrospective review of prospectively identified data from the Fisdap, an EMS student data collection system, was performed. The National EMS Education Standards require “competency” in caring for pediatric patients of all ages but the current measures of competency are limited to testing metrics. The majority of the patients (66%) are school-aged and adolescents. paramedic student will encounter an about 33 pediatric patients in their clinical and field experiences. The 1998 Department of Transportation National Standard Curriculum recommends 30 pediatric patient encounters of various age groups to maintain skills. Wewerka, MPH, CCRC, Aaron Burnett, MD, Elliot Carhart, EdD, RRT, NRP, Levi Danielson, BS, Patricia Tritt, RN,MA, Gordy Kokx, PhD, NREMT-P, Genghis Philip, MA, Kate Hanson, BA, Luke Stanke, BS, Jon Studnek, PhD, NREMT-P Hide or Go Seek: Do More Pediatric Encounters Make Better Paramedics?Īssociate Authors: Sandi S. ![]() Note: Abstracts may be downloaded as a single PDF using the link below.Ģ013 Educational Abstracts (PDF) 209.59 KB
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![]() Nevertheless, I recommend allowing arbitrary page sizes. Of course, by that point, it's almost impossible to read the diagram, and it really ought to be split into multiple diagrams. I eventually found a page size that fit my diagram, but eventually I'm going to need something that BOUML can't support. ![]() It might even have saved the clipped portion when I exported as PNG, but I never tried to export a diagram that was partially clipped. At least the diagram wasn't lost, only clipped. I had to fool around with page sizes, and I don't know the difference betweeen A5 and A4. When my sequence diagrams exceeded that size, the classes were cut off. BOUML is apparently designed for printing, as it restricts your document to common page sizes. At least it's supported!ĭynamic Document Size: Unsatisfactory. I think I'd like to be able to adjust the size of a reflexive arrow, but that's not a problem. Supports Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Reflexive Messages: Very Good. When I'm experimenting with the puzzle of class placement, I need the undo. Sometimes BOUML would let me undo to put them back sometimes I had to do it manually. This was particularly frustrating when I moved things I had accidentally selected. BOUML allows you to undo certain actions, but not all actions. Undo is an all-or-nothing test, so far as I'm concerned. And I kept having similar problems throughout the process. I wound up moving the message line out of the way, adjusting my association line, and putting the message line back. BOUML decided I wanted to move the nearby message line. When I have an association or other graphic selected, and I click my mouse near one of its points, I expect to move that point. This was extremely helpful when I needed to rearrange my class diagram, for instance. The items you select (and their associated labels and lines) move together appropriately. You can make a multiple selection in BOUML using either a rectangular drag or a ctrl-select. Group Selection and Movement: Satisfactory. I'd also like method arguments to be checked and highlighted. I'd like some more control over alignment, particularly where the text goes on the message line. You can certainly make pretty displays in BOUML: the colors are configurable both globally and per instance, you can determine whether the full method definition is displayed on the message line, and so on. Some of my coworkers would like to have the explicit return added automatically, but the point of a sequence diagram is to crystallize your thinking, not to record every detail.Ĭonfigurable Display: Unsatisfactory. I've updated the review to reflect BOUML's new capabilities.Ĭlass and Sequence Diagrams: Good. While I still don't think BOUML meets my minimum qualifications, it's a heck of a lot better than the other editors I've tried. I was originally quite disappointed, and made a rather harsh acronym from its name. To be as objective as possible, let's go over the list of criteria I made earlier.Įdit : BOUML has been updated since my first review. It also bundles a reliable viewer that can be used without a license, under the name of boumlViewer (installed by default alongside the application).Īll in all, BOUML offers users a high dose of control for projects, handling diagrams with grace and speed, which does not reflect badly on the performance of your computer.I'm rating UML editors while I look for a good one. One of the richest sections is the customization dialog for diagram design, which brings possibilities to configure classes, objects and sequence options in their tiniest detail.ĭespite being able to manage thousands of classes, BOUML acts friendly on system resources and performs fast. Generating or reversing code, as well as Java cataloging and the possibility to create XMI files are provided neatly inside the Tools menu. The projects are displayed in a tree-like explorer view, allowing you to navigate through resources and manage them more comfortably. The application’s design serves its purpose right: not too fancy, sporting a simple appearance, the main window of the program allows you to open or start new projects, for which class and deployment views are made available from the right-click menu. The main purpose of BOUML is to create UML diagrams and to generate the corresponding code in Java, Python, PHP, MySQL and C++, with the possibility to reverse and forward engineer in all of these languages. As updates are being embedded into it, the product preserves its backwards compatibility, which means newer versions can read projects conceived and saved with older ones. It is cross-platform and uses the latest UML standards in order to provide users with the best UML toolbox there is.Īlthough original designed as freeware, BOUML became a paid product starting with its fifth version, which, surprisingly, didn’t drive its audience away. BOUML is one of the fastest UML modelers that the market dedicated to UML diagramming has ever seen. ![]() ![]() ![]() As you can see from the above output, if we are taking a border with transparent(rgba)background, the image is visible from the top of the circle shape.Inkist is your drawing tablet's best friend. Krita’s brush settings are stored into the metadata of a 200×200 PNG (the KPP file), where the image in the PNG file becomes the preset icon. This icon is used everywhere in Krita, and is useful for. This is an important concept because transparent layers allow designs to be more intricate and contain more depth, and also allow compositions to be saved without backgrounds. It takes the features artists need: Layers, blend modes, customizable brushes, and more, and packages it in an interface designed to launch quickly, get out of your way, and let you work. To better understand this concept of transparency, I have three layers open in my composition (highlighted in green in the photo above). Layers, with blend modes, opacity, and opacity locking settingsįlexible interface allows you to pop out the controls you want into floating windowsĮxport to Jpeg, PNG, and Tiff (proprietary ISImage file format is Native) If you want to try before you buy, check out the lite version. Transparent layer royalty-free images 127,939 transparent layer stock photos, vectors, and illustrations are available royalty-free. I love my drawing tablet, but I've found that despite the fantastic power available in existing apps, they are cluttered and annoying to use. Inkist is the result of my work to fix that. For more on the initial development of Inkist, see my blog post on it. ![]() And maybe that's true of the 190cm version. They come with a reputation as being an arse kicking ski - 'experts only need apply' and all that palava. Essentially I had them in pretty much every condition you will encounter in an Oz winter, on every type of run. I also skied them in the early morning firm and slush of October long weekend. I had these skis on early season man made, and I n the snow event 1.0 and 2.0. Second best skis I have owned after the Blizzard Brahma. Salomon off piste oriented skis are really so flexible off piste - they've got something special going with these shapes.Įdit to add: I love these skis. Provided the snow is forgiving enough to get an edge in it carves a nice turn.Įssentially this is just a more beefy version of the super fun and more forgiving QST 99, which in turn is a more beefy version of the super forgiving Q98. It is capable of making a pretty small turn at 176cm but can make big turns as well. It does tend to scribe an arc once you put it on edge (as opposed to a more drifty style ski) but contrary to some reports I did find I could drift the tail as well in softer snow as well as hard. It's a stable ski with some oomph on groomed/packed snow, but is forgiving in soft snow. I even took them through a racecourse (maybe not the best choice for that!!).Īll the above impressions are validated. While not deep powder, I have had them through boot top to shin deep powder, cut up crud, a nice buffed kind of surface, and groomed runs. I've now had 2 days on these skis in the conditions for which they were designed. This ski may well replace the Salomon QST 99 as my travel ski, just because it is that touch more substantial but (hard to tell completely as yet) as forgiving off piste ![]() I suspect I could have gone to a 183cm in this ski, But I'm satisfied with what I have. The profile of this ski makes it really forgiving and manoeverable. That's pretty much all I can say right now. It's even a little hard to judge their carving prowess given the conditions but they initiated well and held the turn. ![]() I was worried with all the "kick butt" reputation I'd find them hard to manage, but far from it. I can say though that it slithered through small bumps fine. It's really too early to say too much as the conditions were so far off those that are optimal for this ski. I quite like the Salomon free ride shape, so how goes with a stiffer core? They're reputed to have Salomon's race core on a free ride shape. I know they have a 20.5m turn radius and are 103mm underfoot but I couldn't say much else. And in between patches of snow which had a top layer of slushy groomed. I just did a few runs down High Noon at Thredbo as it's pretty much all that's open. I skied my Brahmas this morning (best skis ever) and my Salomon QLabs this afternoon. So I've taken the opportunity today to swap over skis during the day. I'm down for my first weekend skiing and brought all my (new) skis to stick in my locker. |