Clinical Workshop Practice Scenario – 2 Person Car Accident
Learning how to save lives in an emergency situation features heavily in realistic accident scenario training for students studying the HLT51015 – Diploma of Paramedical Science and HLT41115 – Certificate IV in Health Care.
This is one of many scenarios where Australian Paramedical College students are challenged to respond to life-like situations they will encounter when working in the community.
The scenario featured in the video begins with a call to a attend a single vehicle accident with 2 occupants. APC Diploma of Paramedical Science student Alan Leahy tells us exactly what happened.
“We came across a car accident with two people in it and that was basically all the information we got.”
“Once we got down here, it was revealed that, an assumed intoxicated person driving a vehicle had hit a tree, not wearing a seat belt and there was a passenger in the back – also not wearing a seat belt.” “We just had to deal with that, having two crews and running different operations in the back seat and the front seat.”
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“I think the biggest challenge was making sure the teams were working together but also independently. You had one team on one person in the back and one team on one person in the front.”
“The person in the front couldn’t be extricated until the person in the back was extricated (removed from the vehicle). Just trying to coordinate that and manage our resources and keep the communication clear and trying to remember the very basics of DRABCD.”
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(The DRSABCD action plan is used to assess if a patient has a life-threatening condition and requires immediate first aid.) Just checking all of those. Probably the hardest is just keeping a clear mind.”
“Given the training (from Australian Paramedical College) and what we’d been going over. Although it was nerve-racking, once you got onto the job and you got down to what you do it was actually pretty good… it was really good.”
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Learn more about the HLT51015 – Diploma of Paramedical Science. This is the highest level prehospital emergency health care qualification before going to university to study the Bachelor of Paramedic Science. Graduates of the college have been awarded credits towards the degree as well as applied to become a UK Paramedic with the London Ambulance Service.
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