Friday, March 7, 2008

MasCas exercise


We've been here for 6 months now and have not had a practice "Mass Casualty" drill. The new nurse practitioner, an Air Force major, decided it would be a good idea and had several meetings with everyone medical, including medics and corpsmen. So, one evening at about 2300 (11 PM) we heard a couple of loud BOOMS and all headed to the bunkers. After the all-clear, we headed to the clinic and received the mock patients. Everyone did their jobs well. The only need for improvement was better communication. This was especially hard since our Spanish and Italian colleagues were all trying to communicate with the operations center on the single channel. We'll work it out. The photo shows one of the Spanish nurses, an Italian doc and yours truly.

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