DAYTON, Ohio — Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine is launching a new Division of Tactical Emergency Medicine to better train public safety and medical personnel to practice medicine in high-risk situations.
It’s one of a handful of schools in the United States to formally organize a division around tactical emergency medicine, which was born from military medical training and has, particularly in the last 20 years, been adapted to create a version for SWAT teams, medical staff and other law-enforcement personnel. As part of the change, Boonshoft will formalize a program to treat injuries related to tactical law enforcement — they are comparable to sports injuries — to be handled by sports medicine physicians and athletic trainers, said Dr. James Brown, Wright State’s acting chairman of emergency medicine.
Eventually, Boonshoft wants to create a round-the-clock support center for regional law-enforcement agencies where someone from Boonshoft could be dispatched with a law enforcement group to assist with medical care.
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“There should be no high-risk law enforcement activities going on in this region where we don’t have the proper medical support,” Dr. Brian Springer, director of the new division, stated in a press release.
The division will take individual efforts by three emergency physicians and a handful of residents at the school and formalize their work into a team effort. Law-enforcement tactical emergency training often centers around the ability to care for their own wounds, while medical residents learn to manage gunshot wounds in the field (sometimes while under the threat of being shot at themselves), and also get some training on how to disable a weapon, Brown said.
Boonshoft is an appropriate place for this kind of combat healing. Many of the emergency medicine residents there are also active duty Air Force personnel from the nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Brown said. Plus, Boonshoft will break ground in the coming weeks on its $10 million Calamityville Project: a funhouse for man-made and natural disasters for medical and law-enforcement staff to learn to manage real-life disaster situations. The money is being used to clean up and refurbish an old cement plant where they will run the simulations.
Brown said the new tactical emergency medicine division is also developing a course to be tough through the state’s Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy.
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