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Fort Cavazos, Texas -- Various military medical personnel from multiple U.S. Armed Forces branches and allied nations conducted military emergency field hospital training during the Joint Emergency Medicine Exercise 2024 (JEMX2024) at Fort Cavazos, Texas on June 5, 2024.
JEMX2024 united personnel from the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Netherlands Royal Army and the United Arab Emirates Army to train medical personnel in realistic combat casualty care scenarios for both humans and canines to increase unit and individual combat readiness, share medical knowledge and foster familiarity in joint interoperability.
“The point of JEMX is to bring a lot of medical specialists to test what they know and get them to grow and mature as medical professionals,” said U.S. Navy Cmdr. Gordon Markham, an emergency room physician assigned to the National Medical Readiness Training Center, San Diego. “In this training, we have patients with severe trauma, pregnant women giving birth and service members going through a heart attack all simulated to be performed here like they would be performed in the field.”
Field hospital training simulates emergency situations in a roll 3 emergency detachment. The purpose of the training is to ensure that medical personnel from different military branches and countries can work together to perform in multiple high-pressure situations all happening simultaneously, so to keep the training as realistic as possible, the field hospital training incorporated real world scenarios happening concurrently and randomly all performed in a field environment using equipment that is standard in a Roll 3 field hospital.
While there are actors portraying casualties, this training also utilizes robotic mannequins that mimic medical emergencies.
“We brought in two SimMan essential mannequins and a Guamard NOELLE birthing mannequin for this training,” Richard Silvia, Administrator for the Darnell Medical Military Simulator said. “The mannequins are designed to get injured and recover just as a human casualty would in a medical emergency. A training supervisor with a remote control can even create new symptoms for training medical personnel to handle.”
At the end of the day, Markham said he realized how training that is synergistic across every organization and allies is seen as an important way to prepare for potential future wars to come.
“I see Army doctors, Navy Corpsmen, Air Force medics, and military friends from allied nations all working together,” says Markham. “This is the future for how military medicine will be accomplished.”
| Date Taken: | 06.05.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 06.25.2024 19:51 |
| Story ID: | 473405 |
| Location: | FORT CAVAZOS, TEXAS, US |
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