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West Florida High Emergency Academy Has New Ambulance Simulator
February 10, 2022
The Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (CCEM) Academy at West Florida High School recently added a SimRig in-class ambulance simulator.
The simulator allows students to be completely immersed in scenarios and controlled emergent situations prior to exposure to the actual incidents in real-world situations.
Realistic equipment such as working suction, oxygen administration, and physical attributes such as patient loading and unloading, confined quarters, and various distractors, allow the instructor to build and present patient care scenarios which test the students’ ability to apply critical thinking skills to a variety of ever-changing trauma and medical care problems.
“During the pandemic as our off-campus training options have been limited,” said Escambia County School District ETC Specialist Aish Adkison. “Having simulators and specific training equipment in our secondary Health Academy classrooms has been very helpful as teachers have continued to develop hands-on training scenarios for students.”
The purchase was funded by a CARES Act Governor’s Emergency Education Relief grant.
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3 Responses to “West Florida High Emergency Academy Has New Ambulance Simulator”
Hello Shirley Green, They were indeed and (2) of our HOSA EMT Skills teams placed and will be attending the State Leadership Competition in April. Go Jags.
Were these students part of the EMT high school competition at Pensacola State College this week? Just wondering.
What a great training tool! This is a great example of the fine work the Career Academies of the School District can do. Some of these students will become the next generation of first responders and care givers for the rest of us, and they will recall the inspiration from this real-world simulator. Well done!