SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Fire Department Emergency Medical Services Division has loads of extremely skilled medical body of workers.
The division, monitored by way of UT Health San Antonio workforce, is taught state of the art medical procedures in the school room to reply to no matter emergencies they arrive throughout within the town.
Investigates used to be given unique get entry to to a type of categories.
Continuing training categories
“If you don’t do the life-saving, and you don’t get them to the trauma center, the patient cannot be saved,” mentioned CJ Winckler, an affiliate professor at UT Health San Antonio, to a bunch of grownup newbies with SAFD.
It’s a small window of time the women and men of the San Antonio Fire Department have to reply and save anyone who’s skilled life-threatening trauma.
“To save the patient, we need to be good at our job. And I know we’re good at our job,” Winckler mentioned.
On best of his tasks with UT Health San Antonio, Winckler is likely one of the deputy medical administrators at SAFD. He allowed Investigates to sit down in in this proceeding training magnificence stuffed with veterans of San Antonio’s best.
“What I just lectured about for the last hour are some of the nuances: How can we do this better for trauma care?” Winckler mentioned.
His presentation titled ‘Trauma Tactics for Critically Injured” covered all kinds of injuries seen by the SAFD.
Winckler discussed things like blunt force trauma from car crashes or penetrating trauma from stabbings or gunshots.
“San Antonio has its fair share of those types of injuries. And we have to be prepared as a department to treat those injuries to the best of our ability,” he explained.
Innovative medicine
The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) teams get that training in an unused space at the Wonderland of the Americas mall.
They have access to an ambulance simulator to practice procedures in, realistic manikins, and touch screen simulations of a human body.
In these classes, Winckler teaches EMS crews to think outside the box and perform life-saving procedures in the field that you would typically only see in a hospital.
“We are the wind passed the tip of the spear. These concepts are novel — obviously tried and true in the hospital, but novel in the pre-hospital setting,” Winckler said.
Winckler ran his team through three separate medical case scenarios. He discussed pre-hospital procedures, the importance of a quick response, and highlighted the success they’ve noticed with their complete blood program.
He’s pulling from scenarios they’ve confronted, from the intense with the Robb Elementary School bloodbath to the on a regular basis circumstances they face round San Antonio.
“Uvalde mass shooting, 20 units of whole blood on scene within 39 minutes. Seventeen by helicopter, three by EMS,” Winckler mentioned.
“If someone is shot in the head, isolated GSW to the head, sometimes they live, sometimes they don’t,” he endured.
The school room tactics are getting put to the check. Winckler mentioned they’re responding to an increasing number of calls of violence in any respect hours of the day.
In section two of this collection, Investigates rides in conjunction with a medic officer as he responds to requires gun violence. Read and watch that tale on Tuesday’s Nightbeat.
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