We’ve now passed the half way mark and have covered all the trauma possibilities and how to stabalize them. We can deal with burns, fractures, dislocations & cold/heat illnesses. I’m sure if I look at my book there will be more but right now the lights are out and everyone is asleep.
We had more simulations which are beginning to take longer as we’re expected to follow through with remdial action as well as initial diagnosis which was the focus of early scenarious. We finished off day 5 with a scenario involving 5 patients where we had to organize and respond to an explosion. We had various issues to deal with. One patient had two broken legs. Another had a stick impaled in his arm. Another had a dislocated arm and burns. Another was delerious with inhalation burns and vomiting with rapidly deteriorating signes. Another had a chest puncture wound. We had to coordinate 5 separate teams allocating finite resources (including rescuers) among them as more was learned. A lot of fun and much learned.
Today we have a day off to release the pressure building in our brains. We’re going to be waking early and heading off to climb the trail up to Humphries Peak. It’s a 3,000 foot climb and we hope to be rewarded with great views as this is Arizona’s highest point. Interestingly one of the guys on the course has recently been involved with repairing the trail we’ll be on. We should be down by midday when we intend to head off to Meteor crater and do some sight seeing.
All for now. Alarm just went off and nobody stirred. Back to me being Mr. Popular as I wake up the snorers.
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