Kansas City University Joplin held their 2nd annual Mass Casualty Incident Simulation Exercise Saturday. KRPS’s Fred Fletcher-Fierro attended the event and filed this report.
Eighty of KCU-Joplin’s first- and second-year medical students participated in the mass casualty incident exercise to learn and practice vital skills that will help prepare them for real-world and large-scale incidents.
During the training, students navigated through a staged disaster to triage victims and implement life-saving treatments.
KCU Joplin’s Seth Peavlar was the student organizer for the event, which is intended to take medical students out of their comfort and put their knowledge to the test.
“Largely, we’re drawing on their general medical knowledge that they’ve been learning for the past two years.
The medical core club has also hosted several skills clinics which we taught basic assessments to make sure we treat the airway, the breathing, the circulation first, those life-threatening situations, or conditions.”
Mass casualty incident simulation exercises aren’t geared toward one particular disaster but everything from tornadoes to multi-car pile-ups and earthquakes.
KCU Joplin’s Medical and nearly completed dental school are constructed in the direct path of the May 2011 tornado, which destroyed about ⅓ of Joplin. For 89 9 KRPS News, I’m Fred Fletcher-Fierro
