LUCAS COUNTY, Ohio — Car crashes, shootings, natural disasters and house fires; all situations emergency room doctors are equipped to handle.
On Wednesday, St. Vincent Hospital emergency room residents received valuable training to better serve patients when disaster strikes during an EMT training at Owens Community College.
Residents were given real life scenarios such as a car crash in which multiple victims had to be flown or transported by ambulance to the hospital.
The goal of the training was to make future doctors gain a deeper understanding of emergency medicine used in the field, and the life-saving techniques fire and ambulance workers use in an emergency before patients get to the hospital.
"We have to be prepared because if we let our guard down, that's when we slip up and we're not ready," said one emergency medicine resident going through training.