Navy Medicine Conducts First Integrated ERCS and ERSS Training [Image 26 of 28]

SAN CLEMENTE, CA, UNITED STATES

03.17.2024

Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Russell Lindsey 

Navy Medicine Operational Training Command

LT Rebecca Smith, assigned to En-route Care System (ERCS) Bravo (left) and LCDR Michelle Caskey (right), assigned to Emergency Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) Bravo checks vitals on a simulated a TraumaFX Canine Medical Trainer as part of an Operational Readiness Evaluation (ORE) of Navy EXMED capabilities at Naval Expeditionary Medical Training Institute (NEMTI), March 17. The trainer is a lifelike medical training tool that can breathe, bleed, and bark like a real dog. Military working dogs are integral to both conventional and special operations forces throughout the military and emergency life-saving interventions are practiced to ensure they receive the same combat ready response as their two-legged servicemembers. ERSS, and ERCS components of Navy’s expeditionary medicine capabilities that provide a ready, rapidly deployable and combat effective medical force to improve survivability across the full spectrum of care, regardless of environment. and provides targeted lifesaving interventions to patients onboard platforms and in austere environments without clinically compromising the patients’ condition. The Navy Medicine Operational Training Command (NMOTC) is the Navy’s leader in operational medicine and trains specialty providers for aviation, surface, submarine, expeditionary, and special operations communities. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Russell Lindsey SW/AW)

• Date Taken: 03.17.2024
• Date Posted: 04.11.2024 10:45
• Photo ID: 8323384
• VIRIN: 240317-N-BC658-1265
• Resolution: 3712x5568
• Size: 12.42 MB
• Location: SAN CLEMENTE, CA, US
• Hometown: ROCKVILLE, MD, US
• Hometown: TALLAHASSEE, FL, US