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.
