This Thursday is a special night. Mass Casualty night is an opportunity for students to "bring it all together" to apply all they've learned in assessment and treatment to a broad variety of situations in what can be challenging conditions. It's a highlight for the class.
We're looking for 30+ volunteers to help. These volunteers would be the "patients" for the simulation. Here's how it works - while the students are hearing a lecture in backcountry ski patrol skills, we take the volunteer patients aside, brief them on their injury(ies), and place them around the room which has been configured as if a significant disaster has taken place. When ready, we start with the students triaging the patients and then treating each as is necessary, taking them to safety, and working until the room is clear.
For the patients, it's quite a fun event - they get to have some fun acting, see what you've been up to for the last 12 weeks, and perhaps learn a little bit as well.
The more patients, the better. So, contact your friends, colleagues, etc. and recruit them to help out. We'll need them from 7PM to appx. 10PM. While we'll do this indoors, they should wear old clothes.
Location is the same as our class: NetApp, Sunnyvale. Directions here.
Sign up sheet located here.
Outdoor Emergency Care - South Bay
