Missoula Day

Today started at Missoula Emergency Services, Missoula's only ambulance service, for a review of ambulance operations.  Most students have completed their ambulance ride-alongs, but often we don't have time during their rides to answer all of the questions that arise during calls.

We then headed over to the Missoula County Search and Rescue equipment cache and learned about their SAR team.  We will be interacting with this group quite a bit in the coming weeks.

After that, we met at the University of Montana cadaver lab for a continuation human anatomy instruction.  There is no better way to learn anatomy than in a cadaver lab with experienced instructors.

After lunch, we headed over for vehicle extrication practice with Missoula Rural Fire Department.  Students had the opportunity to learn from professional firefighters and then donned turn-out gear, getting their hands on equipment while tearing apart some vehicles.  Our goal here is to give our students a sense of the challenges, dangers and opportunities present when dealing with patients entrapped in vehicles.   

Tonight we are back up to Seeley for a full week of class.