Packers medical staff goes through emergency response training.
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — With the Green Bay Packers Training Camp just over a week away, the team is making sure it’s ready for any situation.
Packers staff rehearsed their emergency action plan with an assortment of simulated medical emergencies to ensure proper care of players in every possible situation.
“So, we’ll go through various scenarios that the league sets up for us. We work through spine-injured athletes, we work through truncal trauma, we work through cardiac arrest. And all of that is to make sure that we’re ready to go on Sunday — and not only on Sundays,” said Bryan Engel, the Packers’ head athletic trainer and director of sport medicine.
While these drills have been rehearsed for roughly a decade, the team is being particularly mindful in the wake of Damar Hamlin’s sudden cardiac arrest earlier this year.
Engel said the moment was sobering for the entire league, but it also provided valuable insight. His team debriefed on the situation and reexamined how they may have responded to the incident.
“Lambeau is a unique environment in terms of not only the surface we play on — so, you saw that they brought the ambulance right onto the field,” explained Engel. “You know, Lambeau Field, you’re not going to bring a vehicle out onto the turf because it may sink. So, we don’t want that to happen. So, you kind of have to work your way around that.”
Engel says the team will host another round of drills before the regular season begins.
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