Mass Casualty Drill
- meganmcdonough7
- Apr 8
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April 1st, 2025 By: Megan McDonough
This week in BioMed, we participated in South Alabama's Mass Casualty Drill. The purpose of this drill is to provide premedical students with a realistic mass casualty situation. In this scenario, they can practice their MCI responses and skills and practice managing a multitude of differing injuries in a chaotic environment. To prepare for this drill, each Biomed student was assigned a specific injury and level of emotional drama. We were instructed to be as difficult, loud, and dramatic as possible. The scenario was a terrorist attack, with a fake gun and an explosion. Once the fake gun shot was sounded, chaos began to break loose.
Before we left for South Alabama, the senior class did the moulage on the younger classes. We set up multiple different stations and divided the injuries to conquer the hundreds of differing injuries we had to simulate. Arianna Ori and I worked the fake burn station, Hannah Baker and Hallie Dickinson worked the bruise station, Rowan Yeager and Kenndie Olson worked the laceration station, and Avery Van Alstine and Madisen Gabel did the bullet wounds. In total, this took us about an hour to fully finish all of the fake injuries. After the end of the drill, the South Alabama students said that our moulage was very realistic!!
I was assigned to act as a seventeen-year-old girl with a bullet wound to my abdomen, and I was to act dazed and confused. The whole time, I was unable to answer thier questions and only asked for my mother. It took around twenty minutes before they were able to reach me safely, and I was diagnosed as “red” or “immediate”. Which means almost dead but not yet. I was carried out of the building by a large, bald EMS student. He placed me on the red tarp, where I was promptly reunited with some of my classmates. After sitting thier for a while and being given fentanyl, I was transported to the simulated field hospital. Where I was treated and discharged. I lived!!
Overall, this was my favorite BioMed field trip. I got to see my sister in EMS action, which was so awesome, and I got to violently scream and shout. I really enjoyed moulage as well. I’m not very artistic, but I thought I did a very good job. Throughout the whole drill, I filmed. So I thoroughly enjoyed watching that back and seeing how annoying I was being!! I am so sad that I won’t be able to do this again, but thankful for the experience!!
This week, I also practiced my Capstone Presentation in front of my family and my dogs. Overall, I learned that I talked very quickly and struggle with my posture. So that has been what I have been practicing. I have changed my speech about twenty times, so I hope I can perfect it soon!
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