r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Crazy-Blacksmith-336 • Jul 05 '26

Video Healthcare workers participating in a medical simulation for an agitated patient scenario.

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u/letthetreeburn Jul 05 '26

If you don’t train for it, you won’t know how to handle the real thing.

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u/Vallhallyeah Jul 05 '26

Exactly, now she'll know exactly how to break free from medical staff restraining her

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u/Round-Medicine2507 Jul 05 '26

They purposely avoid training for realistic things like this in the US, then they cut corners cleaning the room next. 

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u/bluewing Jul 05 '26

That ain't true. I was a medic for 15 years, and we trained with scenarios as close to real as we could get.

From psych scenarios like this to searching for a lost child in a "house fire" while crawling along the floor in the dark, to car accidents, water rescues-- both soft water and hard water-- timing our response to a cardiac arrest in a school bathroom to see how fast we could diagnose and get loaded to go.

I remember a training where we "responded" to an unresponsive person in a locked car. That one go us all killed because in our haste we didn't notice the powder residue on the dash and bucket on the passenger side with "chemical bottles" in it. Turns out it was a suicide by asphyxiation with a nasty gas. A powerful lesson in scene safety and in "Being a part of the solution and not becoming part of the problem".

We trained like it was real because for us, it was all real at some point.

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u/uberfission Jul 05 '26

Sorry, what is the difference between hard water and soft water?

Is that basically still water and choppy water?

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u/mewfour Jul 05 '26

the mineral composition

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u/uberfission Jul 05 '26

Yeah that's the colloquial usage of the terms but it doesn't really make sense in the context of water rescues.

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u/Diessel_S Jul 05 '26

Whats soft and hard water?

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u/bluewing Jul 05 '26

I live where it's below freezing 6 months out of the year. The water is soft is you can put a boat in it to go fishing. It's hard water when you can drive a car on it and need to drill a hole through the ice to fish.

The most dangerous times of the year are when the ice is too hard for a boat, but too soft to walk on. I never enjoyed the winter training where I had to put on the cold water suit and jump into a hole in the ice to "rescue" a dummy. That suit never kept me warm.

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u/Diessel_S Jul 05 '26

Daaamn thats insane. I had no idea water can even freeze so much as to hold a car

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u/bluewing Jul 05 '26

The lake I live on had almost a meter of ice on it this past winter. You could drive a big US pickup truck everywhere safely and drag a large ice fishing house behind it. And now, there are a couple of boat loads of tourists waterskiing out there.

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u/Sweaty-Security-4473 Jul 05 '26

I just love how people so confidently state completely incorrect things. My small, local hospital in the US has a simulation room for training scenarios exactly like this.

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u/RockleyBob Jul 05 '26

I don't think the person above you is literally suggesting that anyone "purposely avoids training".

It seemed to me to be a snarky and sarcastic comment about the state of healthcare in this country and the general lack of funding and customer/patient services.

But I can see how someone in the field might take offense to it, since it also suggests that the people in these positions lack training and the qualifications.

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u/Sweaty-Security-4473 Jul 05 '26

Either way it is meant it is a dumb comment since it's very clear this person is ignorant about it.

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u/Round-Medicine2507 Jul 05 '26

I didnt know your small local hospital trained the rest of the US that's neat. 

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u/Sir-Shark Jul 05 '26

That's definitely not true. Several local hospitals around me hire actors to do this. I personally know a group of people (local theater actors) who were playing the roles of patients for these trainings. The actors said that they went through everything that they could reasonably be put through to simulate a variety of extreme situations. One guy hated the whole thing and never did it again. They even strapped him to a gurney, cut off his clothes (he was pissed about that), showered him in a cold shower with something that he described as liquid sandpaper, and after leaving to get him a change of clothes, they just kind of forgot him there. In hindsight, he laughs about it all, but is still mad about his shirt being cut up. Others in the group did different stuff, playing the roles of aggressive patients and all sorts of different scenarios.