COLUMBUS, Ind. – Columbus Regional Health (CRH) Emergency Services is participating in a military training exercise Tuesday morning, May 13, with Guardian Response as part of a simulated disaster drill with the U.S. Army’s Muscatatuck Urban Training Center.
The training exercise will help the Army unit evaluate its ability to treat, triage, and transport patients from a simulated disaster area to a higher level of care at a civilian medical center. The exercises also help the CRH Emergency Department team members learn how to transport and triage patients into emergency care from military vehicles and a simulated mass casualty event.
These exercises are only simulations and will not affect actual patient care. They will occur between 9 a.m. and noon on Tuesday.
Military personnel will transport role-playing actors portraying patients and mannequins (as simulated patients) by ground. There will be an increase in military personnel and vehicles on the hospital campus the morning of the drill.
