Touro Nevada Partners with GTI to Improve Trauma Outcomes
Touro University Nevada has partnered with Global Training Institute (GTI) on a special educational collaboration in the Michael Tang Regional Center for Clinical Simulation to provide preparation for a mass casualty incident or other traumatic injury situation.
GTI is a private company that provides advanced trauma training to the Department of Defense (DoD) including Air Force, Army, National Guard, and additional special forces. Touro Nevada’s simulation center hosts GTI instructors and attendees from all over the country, as well as local emergency medical technicians or other healthcare professionals who could benefit from intensive skill-building. Attendees attend a multi-day session where they rotate through stations that provide hands-on practice and discussion from instructors who guide them managing a gunshot wound, blunt trauma, penetrating trauma, fractures, and other open wounds. What sets this experience apart is the use of cadavers, which is crucial in learning how the human body responds to these lifesaving actions.
Anthony Rush, a medical services officer at Henderson Fire Department, attended this training and shared, “to be able to work a cadaver and interact with live tissues to see how they react to needles and scalpels it gives you a real understanding of what you are doing to the body that gives me more comfort and confidence in what I am administering.”
GTI developed these learning modules with the hope that those who are in the field will leave with a better understanding of the human body and feel ready to act when called upon. Chairman and founder, Chris Powe, had just become an acute care trauma nurse practitioner when 9/11 occurred. He dedicated twenty years serving the country and treating his fellow soldiers as Lieutenant Colonel in the National Guard in the only level one trauma center. His background and experiences handling worst case scenarios led him to want to ensure the community is taken care of, not only the patient but taking care to train and prepare those who are saving lives.
“The individuals who attend our training at Touro Nevada, are the people that first touch those that have trauma or injuries, so it's vitally important that they're well trained and can save lives,” said Powe.
“For those in this training, these extreme life saving measures are a daily occurrence. While for others this is a skillset refresh that better equips them to better handle an emergency crisis,” said Casey Maurice, Director of the Center for Clinical Simulation. “We love getting to partner with outside agencies and collaborate on community education.”
Attendees can earn 120 hours of continued medical education (CME) credit. Touro Nevada is excited to expand this training to include the students who will get the unique opportunity to get more knowledge from those who are in the field and also get more hands-on skill-building. Powe is eager to have our next generation to have this opportunity, “medical students will value and benefit from this training, mainly because they will learn kinetic skills. Academics are very important, but applying those kinetic skills, learning how to apply, when to apply, and what not to do is vital, and they have an opportunity to do this in a unique lab set up at Touro Nevada.”
Touro Nevada is committed to supporting our active-duty members and first responders to better help them serve our country and soldiers who rely on their expertise when in critical circumstances. This specialized instruction has an impact on a global scale and connects our local healthcare workers with this elite training exercise. “If it had this training five or ten years ago, I would have felt infinitely more confident in my abilities,” concluded Rush.
