04/27/2022

U.S. Army medical staff trains in UChicago Medicine’s Simulation Center

UChicago Medicine and U.S. Army

A new partnership between the U.S. Army and the University of Chicago Medicine brought 20 Army medics and advanced practice nurses to the hospital’s Simulation Center on April 9 to practice their emergency trauma skills.

The training sessions were led by four UChicago Medicine trauma doctors who also served in the military: Kenneth L. Wilson, MD, David Hampton, MD, Nicholas Jaszczak, MD, and Timothy Plackett, DO, MPH. 

Using the Simulation Center’s lifelike, computer-controlled manikins, members of the 357th Army Reserve unit were able to practice treating war zone-like injuries with techniques such as intubations, applying tourniquets, suturing wounds, and using an ultrasound to assess gunshot or stab wounds.

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This story was first published by UChicago Medicine. 

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