We wanted to do something big, with multiple patients,
because it's not something we do every day. Thank God.
We called it Teen Spirit, and it was the 2019 grad party.
All right, sister, you ready?
No joke!
Let's go on a mission, man!
Let's go, dude.
Our competition today involved our teams
going to the site of a stabbing patient.
Hey! I want your badge number!
We're just arresting him.
Someone who was alert and intoxicated and laying down, but very chatty —
So we're going to a second assessment on this...
Please! Do a third one too.
I'm in pre-medicine, you guys.
I read about it in a book.
I need an epidural!
I need phenylephrine!
Check my fetal pulse.
Check my duodenum.
My abdomen is soft, non-tender!
and finding themselves—
Can somebody please help me?!
in the middle of a multiple-patient scenario,
people who had overdosed on varying substances,
to people who were not breathing and were really in what we call a
peri-arrest stage or a near-death state.
A very loud, noisy environment.
(inaudible yelling)
Very inhospitable to acute medical care.
Everybody that has a friend that is down,
pick them up. We are going outside now!
It really was reflective of the realities that our teams deal with when they come
into someone's home or someone's workplace, going to a mass-casualty and
try to make some order out of chaos.
So we have 1, 2, 3, 4...
A total of eight patients, including the stabbing patient.
What was I thinking? I'm asked that a lot.
I am just so in awe of all of our competitors that we saw
their performances today were all amazing.
Everybody's?
Yeah.
The way they divided, the way they triaged, where they dragged
patients to treat them was all really evident in the way that we cross-train.
The simulation competition that we hold between our bases is a reflection of the
work that we do to prepare our teams for day-to-day operations.
This is core to our education.
Managing these scenarios and getting better at this is really
going to just make us better for the real world out there and for the
patients that we're looking after every day.
This level of simulation creates
excellent providers in critical care.
I'm giving you one of these!
Yeah, man!
So can you get some blood off of that...
(FINISHING HORN BLARES)
(cheers and applause)
Good job!
That case was so crazy.
Well, thank you for that!
Who wants a hug?
I'm just so excited to have hosted such a successful day,
and I'm really proud of our Team Saskatoon. Go, guys!
What was I thinking? I'm asked that a lot
Well, we hosted here the last time was five years ago, and we had a pretty crazy
sim, and we had police, we had EMS, we had fire, and I wanted to think of
something that was equally impressive with a lot of confederates. We have an
amazing village of people here that help with the sim, and to pull off something
like this, this isn't just one person. This is many people, and
it's a lot of work, so we always have just amazing buy-in here, and I feel like
we train our people all year round by doing different scenarios and different
ASIs and different practice sims, so our base is very sim-savvy. All the
Foundation people, our admin people, our pilots. So we wanted to use them, and I
think today that was pretty evident as everyone was all involved. Our scenario
was, we called it Teen Spirit, and it was the 2019 grad party. So one of the
challenges is, I wanted to stay within the demographic of, you know, 17-, 18-year-old kids.
So we had seven confederates that were PCP students that are just
finishing up their practicum. They've actually been to the base before just
doing a little bit of training here and there, and so they were a little bit
familiar, and they were extremely keen, so we actually enlisted them to be our
patients. They're very used to doing sim in their training as well, so I figured
it would be right in their wheelhouse. Now, for the rest of the graduates we
actually enlisted the Evan Hardy (Collegiate) drama department, which was just phenomenal.
Those kids were amazing. So we had 20 19-year-old—or, sorry—18-year-old
students who actually are the graduating class of 2019. When I
contacted their teacher, he was more than happy to help us out.
I went to the school and briefed with the students and took some some
footage of previous competitions so they really knew what they were getting
themselves into, and they were more than excited to do it.
So we had a total of 60 people here today. We don't get to do situations like
this. We don't do mass casualties that often, but for us, when you do, there's
really limited limited space in our practice where we can actually train for
that, so for this we wanted to do something big with multiple patients
because it's not something we do every day. Thank God. But, yeah, I think it's
important because managing these scenarios and getting better at this is
really going to just make us better for the actual real world out
there and for the patients that we're looking after every day.