Leia and Carolina Carrico have been making headlines across the country after rescue operations found the sisters, ages 8 and 5, safe in the woods two days after they lost their way near their home in Northern California.<\/p>\n
The Humboldt County sheriff says training through 4-H may have helped them survive in the wilderness where the sisters say they drank water from huckleberry leaves and used a rain coat for shelter.<\/p>\n
UCF medical students have been benefiting from similar training recently thanks to UCF\u2019s chapter of the Wilderness Medical Society, a group devoted to educating physicians, residents and medical students on health safety in the outdoors. The group holds wilderness medical challenges across the country.<\/p>\n
The group held such an event on Feb. 23 within the wooded confines of Southeast Orlando\u2019s Moss Park where medical students hiked a 7.5-mile trail without the aid of maps and responded to wilderness emergencies, including an alligator attack, a broken bone and an allergic reaction to a bee sting.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just never know when you\u2019re going to be faced with an emergency outdoors,\u201d says second-year UCF medical student Brandon Marshall. \u201cAs a physician you have to be able to think on your feet when you\u2019re tired. That\u2019s why we wanted to bring this event to our medical school.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a physician you have to be able to think on your feet when you\u2019re tired. That\u2019s why we wanted to bring this event to our medical school.\u201d \u2014 Brandon Marshall, UCF medical student<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Marshall participated in a similar event in the foothills of Georgia last year and came away impressed with the combination of testing participants\u2019 physical endurance and medical knowledge. So he organized this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n
Marshall is no stranger to grueling physical activity. He was a Greco-Roman wrestler who competed worldwide before coming to medical school. Marshall points out that Florida has more than 8,900 miles of hiking trails and 5,200 miles of bicycle trails, so there are plenty of opportunities for illness and injury to happen in the wilderness.<\/p>\n
Students faced six of those real-life scenarios during the training while fellow students served as patients.<\/p>\n
In one scenario, a hiker was attacked by an alligator near the edge of a lake and dragged in, suffering head trauma and a broken, bleeding arm. In another scenario, a hiker was stung by a bee, had an extreme allergic reaction and couldn\u2019t speak to tell rescuers what was wrong.<\/p>\n
Martin Klapheke, assistant dean for medical education, whose hobby is mountain climbing, \u00a0helped supervise the outdoor challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see the growth in communication and teamwork as each group worked its way from medical station to station,\u201d he says. \u201cSuch teamwork is critical in medical care today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see the growth in communication and teamwork as each group worked its way from medical station to station.\u201d \u2014 Martin Klapheke, assistant dean for medical education<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dumas, a third-year medical student, said the Wilderness Medical Society event challenged students\u2019 medical knowledge and their ability to work quickly as a team, especially in emergency situations when things can get hectic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to verbalize loudly what\u2019s happening and what you\u2019re doing \u2013 telling people, \u2018I\u2019m checking pulses,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m checking breathing,\u2019 \u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Dumas says one of the most challenging scenarios involved a patient who had fallen out of a tree, breaking his pelvis and injuring his head. The patient complained of a stiff neck and spine pain.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth of those can be life-threatening emergencies. Which do you handle first?\u201d Dumas says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s where the team dynamic came in. We had someone stabilizing the head, and we had somebody assessing neurologic status, and another team member checking pulses.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing how to keep calm, how to assess the situation and go from there, I think is what really makes you a great physician.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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