The Built-in Emergency Medication Residency Program lately carried out a mass casualty (MASCAL) train in collaboration with David Grant USAF Medical Heart at Travis Air Drive Base.
The joint coaching occasion concerned army and civilian emergency drugs residents from UC Davis Well being in addition to workers. A crew of emergency drugs residents took half in a simulated humanitarian mission, responding to the scene of a constructing collapse attributable to an earthquake.
“Triage is the cornerstone of emergency drugs,” defined Roderick Fontenette, Air Drive Lt. Colonel and affiliate program director of the army emergency drugs residents at UC Davis. “This train offered our army emergency drugs residents a glimpse into what they may expertise when deployed as a member of a Vital Care Air Transport Crew (CCATT) and the cross-organizational teamwork required to deal with and transport critically unwell and injured sufferers.”
When the residents arrived on the MASCAL train, they triaged the civilian emergency residents taking part in the position of casualties with numerous accidents. They then offered medical administration on scene, and evacuated sufferers through a Black Hawk helicopter. Following stabilization, the sufferers have been then loaded right into a C-17 miliary plane and transported whereas being cared for in flight.
“Deployed drugs has distinctive challenges that you simply historically aren’t uncovered to when caring for sufferers in a hospital setting,” stated Fontenette. “Ideas comparable to useful resource utilization and crew administration are vitally necessary when treating sufferers within the area or in flight. This train offers our army residents a greater sense of experiences that await them on lively responsibility.”
As a result of we’re a degree I trauma heart, UC Davis carefully mirrors the expertise of being a army well being care skilled. Upon commencement, these army residents are well-prepared and educated to take care of sufferers in any surroundings and setting, due to their coaching obtained right here at UC Davis Medical Heart.” —Roderick Fontenette
In 2016, the UC Davis Division of Emergency Medication and Emergency Medication Residency Program partnered with the US Air Drive to grow to be the fourth (and solely civilian) built-in residency coaching program. The partnership is integral to the event of the Air Drive medical corps. Every year, this system graduates 5 board-eligible emergency physicians who will likely be deployed to active-duty assignments.
“As a result of we’re a degree I trauma heart, UC Davis carefully mirrors the expertise of being a army well being care skilled,” stated Fontenette. “Upon commencement, these army residents are well-prepared and educated to take care of sufferers in any surroundings and setting, due to their coaching obtained right here at UC Davis Medical Heart.”
