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Howth Coast Guard Trains With Irish Red Cross
#Coastguard - Howth Coast Guard has blogged about its recent medical exercise with the Irish Red Cross.
The multi-casualty medical training exercise involved lowering a number of qualified and trainee emergency medical technicians (EMTs) into Whitewater Brook by the heights rescue team.
These EMTs served as serious trauma victims who were then retrieved through the joint effort of over 40 personnel between the two organisations who worked together to triage, treat and evacuate.
Another recent training exercise, as featured in the video above, involved the safe evacuation of a casualty with a lower limb fracture.
"One of the more common callouts we receive are for people enjoying walking or running in the area who slip and fracture a lower limb or ankle injury," said the North Dublin-based unit of the Irish Coast Guard.
"The team regularly train for this scenario, ensuring all members are able to stabilise, package, and evacuate by stretcher a casualty in this situation."
