GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Aurora BayCare Medical Center and the Wisconsin Army National Guard teamed up in Green Bay Thursday to complete a simulated training exercise.
It began with National Guard critical care flight paramedics being taught key techniques to aid in advanced heart care emergency situations by cardiac experts in the Aurora BayCare Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
The simulation culminated with an intra-facility transfer of care, in which the Aurora BayCare team and National Guard flight paramedics executed a mock patient transfer to a Blackhawk helicopter.
John “JJ” Jenkins is a major with the Wisconsin Army National Guard who also works as a physician assistant in the ICU at Aurora BayCare. He said there are two main goals from these exercises.
“One is to give the flight medics in our state the best training that’s possible, and the best way to do that when you’re at a critical care level is to bring them into a simulation, into a real ICU, that is as close to taking care of real people as possible,” Jenkins said.
The other side is to allow the nursing staff here at the hospital to get great experience with our flight medics and have a low stress, comfortable environment to do training and talk through scenarios that are generally high stress, when you’re transferring a patient from one hospital to another.
This advanced life support training and simulation is part of an ongoing collaboration between the Aurora BayCare and the Wisconsin Army National Guard that began in 2022.
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