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DD,
I agree with you in principle, but disagree in reality. Unlike the civilian fields where a specific set of skills are used and honed over years of experience, a Med Tech's role has too much variety to become expert on all the skills they learn. What is expected is that they are learned in each skill and attempt to maintain and improve those skills. Skills which range the gambit from prehospital point of injury skills right thru the role 1,2 and 3 facilities to palliative care roles.
Also you'd be surprised at the level of clinical skills and experience at the MCpl and Sgt level. Remember, these medics have been working around medicine for 8-10+ yrs in several of those employment positions.
Remember this is just discussing the prehospital role...we still have a whole bunch of other clinical and military training to do as well.
How safe is that? So far so good. Can it be better? Sure. Is there a way to make it better? Not with the op tempo. Though often,it is on those operations (like DART in Pakistan) that medics get to do all those skills and then some. The MCSP goes a long way to attempt to rectify some of the skills fade.
But if lack of skill practice became the limiting factor to prehospital Med Tech training, then the trade would revert back to the skill levels of stretcherbearers.
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I can think of NONE, as intubation is not a skill that QL 5 medics are allowed to independently perform. The PCP training standard is a Combitube ( :-[ ). Currently, you should not see any QL 5s doing intubations anywhere in the military context.
But this is pulling away the thread...want to talk about why intubation is bad/not a skill needed in the military/tactical context, lets open a new thread.
I agree with you in principle, but disagree in reality. Unlike the civilian fields where a specific set of skills are used and honed over years of experience, a Med Tech's role has too much variety to become expert on all the skills they learn. What is expected is that they are learned in each skill and attempt to maintain and improve those skills. Skills which range the gambit from prehospital point of injury skills right thru the role 1,2 and 3 facilities to palliative care roles.
Also you'd be surprised at the level of clinical skills and experience at the MCpl and Sgt level. Remember, these medics have been working around medicine for 8-10+ yrs in several of those employment positions.
Remember this is just discussing the prehospital role...we still have a whole bunch of other clinical and military training to do as well.
How safe is that? So far so good. Can it be better? Sure. Is there a way to make it better? Not with the op tempo. Though often,it is on those operations (like DART in Pakistan) that medics get to do all those skills and then some. The MCSP goes a long way to attempt to rectify some of the skills fade.
But if lack of skill practice became the limiting factor to prehospital Med Tech training, then the trade would revert back to the skill levels of stretcherbearers.
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adamop said:I doubt many QL5's do intubations at all except in hospitals. I doubt there would be any scenario, in fact, in which a QL5 medic could do an intubation in which a physician or PA wouldn't be there to do it first (in non-war times).
old medic said:I can think of quite a few.
I can think of NONE, as intubation is not a skill that QL 5 medics are allowed to independently perform. The PCP training standard is a Combitube ( :-[ ). Currently, you should not see any QL 5s doing intubations anywhere in the military context.
But this is pulling away the thread...want to talk about why intubation is bad/not a skill needed in the military/tactical context, lets open a new thread.