Holy cow- class is halfway over! Finished up WFR day four yesterday with our first big simulation. A scenario similar to ours was filmed in Northern Michigan if you want to get an idea of what we got to do. (Ours involved significantly less snow, though.) As story has it, a wind storm arose unexpectedly, toppling some trees and injuring six people. I played secondary responder to a patient who was trapped under a fallen tree; we backboarded the patient for a spinal column injury and began preparing for a hasty evacuation as he started showing signs of volume shock. Our patient was in the middle of the pack, injury-wise. The injuries ranged from a pretty simple asthma attack and stable wrist injury to a combination spinal cord injury and open leg fracture. When all of the patients were cleared by the magical WFR Wand (which Daz waves upon correct diagnosis and course of action by the primary rescuer), we ended the scenario by litter-carrying one of the patients safely back to the classroom.
In one of those moments where you're forced to put together a bunch of things that you know in the back of your mind but never experienced all at once, wilderness medicine is a fairly messy process! For instance, there are a lot more sticks, twigs, and rocks to deal with when backboarding a patient beneath a fallen tree than there are on the lawn or in the classroom. That's part of the reason these simulations are so great.
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