Another full day in the tropics. Students practiced extricating patients from inside and under vehicles, learned how to clean wounds, manage burns and prevent blisters. They learned how to splint with conventional supplies and to improvise with various materials they might carrying camping or have with them traveling. They also had instruction in more knot tying. They are putting more and more of the skills together in scenarios, making those more realistic and challenging. Today was also "chocolate day", when the owner of a local organic chocolate farm brings fresh chocolate of various flavors, cookies and banana bread. Not too shabby.
Tomorrow starts with a big written exam, which has everyone studying. An average night has 50-100 pages of EMT text to read and practical scenarios to prepare for, so any notion of a relaxing vacation in Costa Rica left on day one! It's always beautiful here, though, with amazing flowers, birds and other wildlife, so when students do get a well-earned breather, there is plenty to see and do.
We will also be heading to the river tomorrow for more scenarios and another chance to cool off. Some poor, innocent tourist/ guide/ fill-in-the-blank person will come close to their untimely end and, amazingly enough, will be happened-upon by a group of highly trained, motivated and capable EMT students with nothing better to do than jump in and help. More on that tomorrow.
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