Army Medicine personnel practice teamwork at Mayo Clinic Simulation Center

The 865th Army Reserve Combat Support Hospital, out of Utica, N.Y., was hit with their first round of casualties since deploying to Afghanistan. One woman was having a miscarriage, another an asthma attack, a third needed an appendectomy and a young boy who'd swallowed a small toy was wheezing from a partially blocked airway. Complicating matters, the medical team had difficulty explaining to the boy's frantic mother -- who couldn't speak English and refused to leave her son's bedside -- what was wrong with her child and getting consent to treat him. This make-believe scenario recently played out at the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center in Rochester, Minn., where the 865th was conducting a training exercise.

This story was written by Fonda R. Bock, USAREC. Read the rest of Fonda’s story on the site below.

Thanks Fonda.

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