00:00Emergency response teams from across the Bega Valley collaborated on a special dramatic simulation
00:15at South East Regional Hospital. The orchestrator behind the event is Dr. Nathan Oates.
00:25He said two things spurred the creation of the simulation.
00:30The first was to inspire those working in health services to move to the country, and the second was to acknowledge the numerous emergency services that help the community.
00:43This is what Dr. Nathan Oates had to say.
00:45There's again a lot of evidence around simulation as a tool for training and particularly for training in teams, and so it is a really effective tool when it's used well.
00:56Now it's become an expected part of teaching programs to have simulation as an element of particularly team training.
01:06And so with the individual patients in the scenario, we have been using medical students as our volunteer patients, and obviously the medical students that we have this year weren't in their 50s and 60s, but for part of the training for the day,
01:32we did want to create something where we simulate having people with different ages and different medical problems.
01:40And so we try also to create a scenario that means that all the different agencies will have some role creating a scene in which all those agencies need to work together.
01:54So our job is really to train rural doctors and to give medical students an understanding of what it's like to practice rural medicine.
02:02This is Sally Hall de Graaff, the head of the Rural Clinical School.
02:06It's all about helping them to see some of the really fun stuff that can happen out here as well.
02:12Some of what goes on today will be about helping people to see what happens across time in a simulated emergency, so they'll get to see what happens at the actual site for the motor vehicle accident.
02:26And then after that, after the ambulances leave, the simulation will move inside to the high fidelity simulation lab inside the hospital.
02:38Several emergency services were on site during the simulation, including the police, VRA, ambulance, SES, Fire and Rescue and the RFS.
02:52Fire and Rescue Captain Daniel Guthrie shared his thoughts.
02:56Obviously, our main priority is our own safety, so we have a lot of procedures that we have to follow around hot zones, warm zones, who's allowed in, where, what you have to be wearing.
03:10So pretty much we'll always be wearing breathing apparatus whenever we're anywhere near any smoke or anything that's potentially toxic.
03:18And then we also have, you know, strong procedures as to the way we have to define things on the way out.
03:26VRA Captain Zach Willis shared his process with covering incidences.
03:32Depending on what information comes in on the initial 000 call, we can prepare ourselves as best we can on that information whilst proceeding to the scene or responding to the scene.
03:44If there's any further information come through, then we can sort of actively be prepared for that.
03:49But once on scene, we sort of just liaise directly with the police and the ambulance officers there.
03:57They will then prioritise or set up a triage for those, depending how many are injured.
04:03And then we can put our focus into getting those that sort of need more immediate care out of harm's way and into the hands of the ambulance officers.
04:18Dr Nathan Oates said the simulation was designed so that all emergency services had a role.
04:24While the simulation was happening outside with emergency services, inside the hospital, medical students were performing a surgery using simulation dummies.
04:43The simulation gave students a realistic insight into the challenges of rescue, response and treatment.
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