Photo By Tech. Sgt. Amanda Stanford | U.S. Air Force Capts. Courtney Hood and Kimpreet Kaur, anesthesia residents with the...... read more read more
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CHOLUTECA, Honduras - Graduate medical education students are the next generation of medical professionals to serve in the U.S. Air Force, and exercises like Resolute Sentinel 21 play an integral role in their training.
The surgical readiness training exercise (SURGRETE) in Honduras has been the training ground for two anesthesia residents from the 59th Medical Wing, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The procedures and limited resources have offered an opportunity for the residents to learn skills that they wouldn’t be able to gain in-garrison.
“Missions like this provide an excellent opportunity to apply the residents’ training in an environment different from what they experience at Brooke Army Medical Center,” said U.S. Air Force Maj. Dan Sehrt, a ground surgical team (GST) phase one instructor at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, 711th Human Performance Wing, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. “Our residents on this mission have done an excellent job being creative and operating independently. They’ve done this while using their clinical reasoning to navigate hurdles due to a resource strained environment not seen in-garrison.”
Along with limited resources and equipment, the residents have been working with limited personnel which has given them the opportunity for constant hands-on training.
“During this mission, our team of four staff and resident anesthesiologists have had to rely heavily on each other to get through the surgeries safely and to overcome limited resources,” said U.S. Air Force Capt. Courtney Hood, an anesthesia resident with the 59th MDW. “Due to limited personnel and resources, we have to walk into each surgery prepared to treat anything we encounter. This has taught me to be as prepared as possible for all my anesthetics, choose patients wisely, and consider the entire preoperative course in my management.”
The team will be heading back to the U.S. with many lessons learned to better assist patients both in-garrison and in deployed environments.
| Date Taken: | 05.25.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 05.26.2021 08:13 |
| Story ID: | 397425 |
| Location: | CHOLUTECA, HN |
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