STTC Deploys “Hip-Pocket Training” to Haiti

Monday, 08 March 2010 12:51

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The U.S. Army Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) sent a shipment of the Combat Medical Card Game to joint service medical units operating in Haiti. The game is used by combat medics during after duty hours and mission lulls to “refresh” critical combat life saving skills by providing a training aid that is easily distributed and transported into remote combat areas and austere operating areas in support of Army humanitarian missions.

The Combat Medic Card Game was developed under contract with the STTC and the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation and Training. The initiative provides an inexpensive training aid for combat medics. Each card addresses differing conditions that medics face during care under fire. The card categories include acronyms: NCD (needle chest decompression), OD (occlusive dressing), HC (hemorrhage control), CT (combitube), SC (surgical cric), SI (sterna intrasseous) and CAT (combat application tourniquet). Each category has varying steps to complete condition treatment.

The cards are set up to allow three types of interaction: modified, flash cards or traditional. Modified game play utilizes the categories indicted above to allow individual or team play with modified instructions to such common games as Solitaire, Rummy, Kings Corner and Nerts. Flash cards help individuals or teams to review condition procedure steps. Traditional game play allows individual or teams to play such games as Poker and Texas Hold ’em with the traditional face cards of hearts, diamonds, etc.

Medics can use the cards as a refresher during down time or help to teach others such as Combat Life Savers (CLS) various skills. The cards come with a 9 line Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC )request “joker card”. The 9 line details each step required to request medical evacuation. This is a convenient card for the combat medic to keep with them when ordering a MEDEVAC.

The Combat Medic Card Games will undergo user testing through Department of Combat Medic Training, Army Medical Department. The cards have been given to SGM Delay of the Research, Development and Engineering Command and sent to various areas in Afghanistan for medic feedback. Future work is planned for the creation of a CLS card deck and eventual application of the cards into a mobile device. ♦

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STTC Deploys “Hip-Pocket Training” to Haiti

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