The guys returning from leave arrived on schedule, and we met them at breakfast in the Norwegian mess hall. The medical training personnel from Finland had agreed to move our turn to participate in the training from tomorrow to today, which of course suited us perfectly. Now our cars were in maintenance while we could at the same time participate in the medical training. The training was built up of several cases, in which we used a casualty simulator. The simulator consisted of two life-sized dolls, which were controlled by computers. They breathed using pressurised air and had a pulse. The instructors would change the vital signs of the dolls during the cases with remote controls, depending on how we treated the patients. The dolls of course also had spare limbs with wound make-up, fractures, and fake blood. After each case we would sit down for a thorough feed-back on what went wrong and what was good, and the instructors showed us the correct treatments. It was a very practical and informative training session.
After dinner we drove to Aybak. The weather was still very hot, and there was a fierce wind blowing up dust over the road. After arriving in Aybak I went for a 40-minute run on the treadmill.
The SimMan has just suffered yet another wound.
The
needle decompression of a pneumothorax, or thoracocentesis.
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