CREAS Mock Trauma Event held April 10

Hagerstown Community College will conduct a Criminal Response Emergency Assessment Scenario (CREAS) training event on Sat., April 10, beginning at 8:30 a.m., on HCC’s main campus.

CREAS is an interdisciplinary assessment activity intended for students who are nearing program completion and are ready to graduate. During this mock training scenario, students from the paramedic emergency services (PES), radiography, and nursing programs will work together to practice the skills they have learned during their career training and college coursework to simulate a variety of incidents similar to what they will encounter in the field.

Nursing and health sciences students will have a mock emergency room and trauma unit set up in the Career Programs Building through which they will treat a variety of other students posing as patients. A helicopter will be brought in with a manikin patient and additional manikin patients will be used to simulate more advanced traumas. HCC faculty will oversee all portions of the event.

In addition, HCC security officers will respond to a staged campus incident. They will be assisted by the Hagerstown Police Department and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.

For more information regarding this event, call 301-790-2800, ext. 303, or e-mail williamsp@hagerstowncc.edu.