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Sailors from Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi participated in semi-annual First Receiver Operations Training December 3-5.
The training is designed to educate personnel on life-saving skills required to triage, initiate field treatment, decontaminate and save victims from Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN), or hazardous materials exposure.
During the three-day training, members of the clinic’s Decontamination Incident Response Team performed inventory and functional inspections on decontamination equipment and learned about hazardous materials, contaminating agents, personal protective equipment and how to process patients through a decontamination station.
The training evolution culminated in a real-world scenario, where team members were measured on their ability to react to an exposure event.
As part of the measured exercise, decontamination team members were timed in two areas: mission capable, where four team members were required to fully dress out in personal protective equipment and ready to receive patients in less than 15 minutes, and fully capable, where a decontamination station is set up and all team members are dressed out in personal protective equipment and ready to receive process patients in less than 20 minutes.
During the exercise, NHC Corpus Christi’s decontamination response team completed both portions before the allotted time, reaching the mission capable mark at 6 minutes, and achieving full dress out and set up in 8 minutes and 30 seconds.
Following the timed portion of the exercise, the decontamination team practiced receiving ambulatory and non-ambulatory casualties. Team members assessed the simulated casualties to determine the extent of their injuries before routing them to the decontamination station, a pressurized, heated water shower system, were they were washed down with sponges and a soap solution.
NHC Corpus Christi’s Decontamination Incident Response Team holds monthly training in preparation for the semi-annual recertification.
Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi and its Naval Branch Health Clinics located in Kingsville and Fort Worth provide ambulatory care services to more than 13,000 enrolled patients comprised of military active duty, their family members, retirees and their family members in South Texas and Dallas/Fort Worth. In addition, the command's San Antonio Detachment provides primary care services to our Navy students at the Medical Education and Training Campus, Fort Sam Houston, and case management services and medical board management to our Navy and Marine Corps Wounded, Ill and Injured Warriors at San Antonio Military Medical Center.
| Date Taken: | 12.05.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 12.09.2019 17:48 |
| Story ID: | 354917 |
| Location: | CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, US |
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