Photo By Staff Sgt. Dustin Biven | U.S. Army Capt. Jade Snader (left), brigade nurse for 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team,...... read more read more
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ZAGAN, Poland –Polish and U.S. Soldiers recently hosted a multinational first aid training exercise at the Zary, Poland city hall Dec. 8, 2017. The training allowed students from the surrounding public schools to participate in hands-on learning with medical supplies such as tourniquets, splints and gauze.
Roughly 50 middle school and high school students gathered in an auditorium at city hall to be taught basic life-saving skills.
“The training that we taught was a very basic, but effective, level of first aid,” said U.S. Army Capt. Jade Snader, brigade nurse for 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas. “By the end of the training, the students should know how to stop bleeding and apply things like a splint or tourniquet.”
After being briefed on what the students will learn, they were divided into two groups. One group initially focused on treating broken, fractured or damaged appendages with both medical and improvised supplies, while the other group learned how to properly stop and control bleeding as well as apply a standard and improvised tourniquet.
The Polish and U.S. medics worked together to instruct the students on how to properly assess a wound or injury and how to treat it. Each student had a chance to gain hands-on experience.
“The training is pertinent to people of all ages, locations, races and ethnicity,” said Snader. “You never know when you are going to need it, you can be at school, work or even at home. The skills taught here today are important because despite language and cultural barriers, we're all the same. We are all human who, when hurt, need someone to lend a helping hand.”
With the help of the medics from the Polish and U.S. military, each student learned how to properly dress and bandage a simulated wound and apply a splint and tourniquet to one of their peers.
“The medical training provided today is not only practical but extremely valuable,” said Agnieszka Izdebska, the crisis management official at Zary City Hall. “Our goal is to continue this kind of training, with both Polish and American Soldiers, the students seem to get a lot of it.”
Michalina Tomkow-Spurek, a teacher at Primary School No. 5 in Zagan, Poland, brought four students of hers to the medical training.
“Two of my students were already very proficient at first aid,” said Spurek. “I knew most of the training would just be a refresher for them, but to my surprise, they all were able to learn something.”
This is the second time that the U.S. has partnered with the Polish military in Zary to teach the local residents basic first aid and life-saving skills.
| Date Taken: | 12.08.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 12.08.2017 13:12 |
| Story ID: | 258045 |
| Location: | ZARY, PL |
| Hometown: | JUNCTION CITY, KS, US |
| Hometown: | MANHATTAN, KS, US |
| Hometown: | WICHITA, KS, US |
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