In January, 15 new Emergo Train System (ETS) Psychosocial support instructor were trained at the ETS Competence center. The participants were from different health regions and municipalities in Sweden and Denmark.
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Emergo Train System (ETS) instructors in Italy have in several years used ETS for simulating mass casualty incidents at airports. The photos below are from an exercise held 2019 at the training center of Bologna Airport. Scenario was a plane crash (Airbus A380) about 3 km from the airport.
The Gold Coast University Hospital’s had on November 29 a mass casualty exercise using Emergo Train System (ETS). The scenario was a semi-trailer crashed through barriers into temporary grandstands at a motorsport event and resulted in 120 people (from the ETS trauma bank) were brought to hospitals. The aim of the exercise was to develop the Gold Coast University Hospital’s capability to work intraoperably to manage the response to a surge event in accordance with the Emergency Preparedness Continuity Management plan and Mass Casualty plans.
ETS have been used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for several years in their international missions and trainings. Last week ICRC held a Basic Awareness and Preparing for Emergencies (BAPE) course and two ICRC hybrid MIC workshop. The course and workshops with 40 participants in each were held in the Tartus Governorate in Syria.
The ETS Competence center have a project together with the International Committee of the Red Cross to develop an ETS Humanitarian set that can be used by ICRC in their missions in areas affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence.
We wish good luck with exercises for the 20 new Swedish ETS Senior instructors from seven regions and universities in Sweden who participated in this week's Swedish course!
