Photo By Rodney Jackson | Lt. Cmdr. Russell Wier, medical officer, Navy Medical Center San Diego, instructs...... read more read more
Fort Hood, Texas – Emergency medicine residents and medics sharpened their blood transfusion skills during the Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise June 8-11.
Blood transfusion experts instructed students on whole blood transfusion before a student to student hands-on practice session. Lt. Cmdr. Russell Wier, medical officer, Navy Medical Center San Diego, and blood transfusion subject matter expert knows the value of medical personnel being able to perform whole blood transfusions on the battlefield.
“Whole blood saves lives on the battlefield and it’s a capability that we have to practice, it requires some training, because it’s a significant leap forward from what we did five years or even ten years ago,” said Wier.
Regular intervals of transfusion training is essential to enabling medical personnel readiness.
“Our Soldiers conduct blood transfusions during the regular training here at the Medical Simulation Training Center (MSTC),” said Sgt. Joshua Morrison, combat medic and instructor at the MSTC. “This is the perfect opportunity for them to get exposure from an expert like commander Wier.”
Wier helped develop the Navy and Marine Corps Valkyrie Emergency Whole Blood Transfusion Training Program based on his work with the Army forces.
The Army incorporated whole blood transfusions into their training as early as 2015.
According to Wier, the realism associated with whole blood transfusion training creates a skill and physiological confidence that helps medical personnel perform by introducing them to complications not encountered with simulated fluids.
“Some of those elements that can be problematic include things like clots in the lines, delayed time to fill the appropriate collection bag, IV (intravenous therapy) complications, those are all things you don’t normally run into (using simulated fluid in a controlled environment) and when students are faced with that — in reality — it’s just a perfect environment, because you don’t want them to see that for the first time on the worst day of their life,” Wier said.
| Date Taken: | 06.08.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 06.25.2021 11:47 |
| Story ID: | 399458 |
| Location: | FORT HOOD, TEXAS, US |
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