18 NAVY NEWS, NOVEMBER 2010 Good medicine in bad places
O
UT in theatre can be a dangerous place. It’s the nature of the job. It’s why it’s theatre.
So before heading out to the harsh landscape of Afghanistan, the men and women of the Commando Helicopter Force at RNAS Yeovilton are trained in dealing with medical situations that they might encounter out on the battlefield.
The CHF helicopters are out
in Helmand running battlefield support, so all of their personnel attend a three-day course run by the CHF Medical Section on the specific injuries and issues of front-line conflict. The problems of battlefield medical treatment include limited equipment, limited access to medical support, and a dangerous environment. Two days in the classroom are followed by one final day
of intense field conditions where CHF brings together the expertise of its medical staff and its military training unit to bring to life casualty scenarios with big bangs, blank ammo, smoke flares and amputees playing wounded soldiers.
The point of this final test is to
plunge the sailors and marines from CHF into the worst-case scenario – and students report that the realism does focus the
mind very sharply. The training produces an
extremely high standard of battlefield
care, and those
trainees tackling the course have hugely praised the practicality and reality of the final testing day.
training
The new approach to medical is
already bringing
positive results in theatre, with lives saved and better medical care for the injured.
CHF credits the success of its medical training to the skill and experience of the medical section and the military training unit that means that those qualified
can provide medicine in bad places’.
● Realistic battlefi eld action and medical casualties are being combined by CHF to ensure the best medical training for
personnel going out to theatre Picture: LA(Phot) Vicki Benwell
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