LCDR Michelle Caskey (left), and LT Carrigan Horton (right) assigned to Emergency Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) Bravo practice intravenous puncture and blood product collection from each other as part of an Operational Readiness Evaluation (ORE) of Navy EXMED capabilities at Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute (NEMTI), March 13. NEMTI staff teach the importance of a walking blood bank in the curriculum of all of Navy EXMED systems which allows anyone to be called upon to donate blood to those wounded in an austere and contested environment and allows for maximum survivability of the warfighter. ERSS is one of the Navy’s expeditionary medicine capabilities that provides a ready, rapidly deployable and combat effective medical forces to improve survivability across the full spectrum of care, regardless of environment. and provides targeted lifesaving interventions to patients onboard platforms and in austere environments without clinically compromising the patients’ condition. The Navy Medicine Operational Training Command (NMOTC) is the Navy’s leader in operational medicine and trains specialty providers for aviation, surface, submarine, expeditionary, and special operations communities. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Russell Lindsey SW/AW)
Date Taken: | 03.13.2024 |
Date Posted: | 04.11.2024 10:46 |
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