Once the scenario commences, the volunteer's instructions are to report no symptoms that suggest an immediate threat to life but to indicate the presence of neck and back pain and a lower limb sensory disturbance.
They are given a full briefing prior to the start of the demonstration and are supplied with appropriate PPE. Instead, a pre‐demonstration slide show illustrates their role and the associated manoeuvres-for example, dashboard roll-available to them.Ī volunteer is selected from the course participants to act as the injured driver. The attendance of a fire crew to facilitate casualty extrication is no longer required. This helps to maintain consistency in the approach to the scenario between courses. Instructors wearing full personal protection equipment (PPE) act as the attending ambulance crew and/or immediate care practitioner(s). The ability to easily transport and manoeuvre the vehicle from one course venue to another was also essential.Īlthough a number of scenarios are possible with the car, our primary demonstration focuses on the urgent extrication procedure.
It was important to eliminate existing hazards-for the vehicle to offer a realistic scenario and yet also be able to be used again for another scenario within a short space of time.
In view of these inherent and recurring difficulties, a decision was made to attempt to source and equip a reusable accident damaged car for the purposes of these extrication demonstrations. Other issues also have to be taken into consideration (box 1). This simulation entails a considerable amount of organisation, not least the availability of a suitable vehicle and the involvement of local ambulance and fire crews.
As part of the trauma component of the introductory immediate care course, we have traditionally demonstrated the routine extrication of a driver with a presumed spinal injury from a crash damaged car. These courses are provided locally throughout Scotland.
I strongly encourage other teachers to sign up their students to one of Code Trauma’s activities.BASICS Scotland is a charitable organisation that provides specific courses in immediate care for the benefit of GPs, nurses, and ambulance staff. We would rather not have any of those, hence why prevention matters so much! It is always harder to handle an incident involving young people. To date, approximately 15,000 students from various schools in the Longueuil and Montérégie regions have attended this lifelike reconstruction. Particular attention is given to alcohol- and drug-impaired driving.
This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we adapted the format of the Crash Simulation to a series of trauma prevention videos shared on the web and social media.ĭuring our live Crash Simulation events, the audience usually gets to witness how quickly emergency services must respond to save lives and to ensure the safety of all those involved. The goal is to raise awareness of the risks of impaired driving and the devastating consequences of road collisions. The premise is simple but powerful : we welcome Secondary 5 students to a 2-car crash simulation called ‘Simulation Frappante’. As much as young people are used to watching spectacular scenes on TV or the web, they rarely get to witness a ”real” road collision, live.