Working in a remote location like this gives us some unique challenges. If there would be an occasion where there would be more than 2 trauma patients that would be brought in from any accident it would be considered a MCI (Mass Casualty Incident). We have 2 primary bays in medical with equipment to stabilize the patients until they can be transported out of here, so if there would be more patients there is another casualty collection point set up. Our job as medical providers would be to ensure that we are prepared for the worst. The station wide MCI drill in scheduled for mid November. We have 3 MDs, 1 PA and 3 RNs on the station, so we are going to need some assistance if there would ever be a MCI. Part of our responsibility is to train volunteers to help out with medical care during a MCI. We are fortunate that we have EMTs, WFR (Wilderness First Responder) and a couple of former paramedics that has signed up to be medical volunteers. We will train them how to prepare IV bags, review different first aid scenarios (burns, hypothermia, splinting and etc), document and how to do vital signs and record them. Every Friday afternoon until we have the drill is our training day. We also train people to take x-rays, run labs and the walking blood bank. We will hopefully never have to experience a MCI here, but you never know. As I wrote in one of my earlier posts we were close to have one activated the day we arrived when our airplane that we flew in on was literally running out of fuel.
Below are some pictures from our training.
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| Dr Liz talking about burn and hypothermia care |
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| Our volunteers listening to Dr Liz |
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| Lt Col Dr Watts reviewing splints |
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| Heather Porst (PA) doing lab training |
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