Cape CTC hosts mass casualty training event
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KBSI) – First responders, EMS workers and more we’re on scene at the Cape Career and Technology Center as part of a training exercise. The career center hosted a Mass Casualty Event to give first responders and students a firsthand look of what to do in a high-pressure situation.
“So, it is a training event, but it’s a simulation of a mass casualty event that would potentially happen” says Dr. Crowley.
Brock Crowley is the Cape Career and Technology Center Director, he shares this year’s mass casualty event simulated what would happen if something such as a plane crash took place and dozens of people all needed help at once.
Secondary Assistant Director Tyler Abernathy shares that the center strives to give students career experience.
“That’s part of what we try to do here” says Abernathy “is to prepare them and then put them in situations where they get that hands on experience of what really could happen out there.”
More than a dozen agencies were in attendance, Scott County EMS, Cape County EMS, Cape County Coroner, Air-EVAC and more. EMS Program Director Ron Kiplinger shares that the event ran all day, and more and more agencies get involved each year.
“We expand each year” says Kiplinger. “This year it actually involved Saint Francis Hospital who donated funds for food to feed the crews while they’re here and then Pulsera has also come in.”
Pulsera is a communication and logistics platform designed for EMS, hospital staff and medical care. Students got to experience how the system worked, Skyler Lott is a student who took part in today’s event.
“Definitely learned a lot as far as documentation and tracking patients throughout major incidents.”
Lott says the experience gained at these mock events help not only students pursuing careers in EMS, but nursing, criminal justice and more.
“Definitely a hands-on experience putting all the districts that most people are going to work for or around together it has been an amazing experience” says Lott.
