Cadavers key to paramedics' rescue training
Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | Pararescue Jumpers from 103rd Rescue Squardron learn how to perform a fasciotomy on a cadaver during a medical training session where intubation and other medical emergency procedure are needed. (June 22, 2012)
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The six cadavers lay stretched out on tables, their faces obscured by bandages.
"Everybody's going to get a limb," said Lt. Col. Stephen Rush, an Air Force flight surgeon. "Arms are fair game."
With that, his audience of Air Force search-and-rescue specialists picked up their scalpels and got to work.
Rush, the doctor attached to the Air Force's 103rd Rescue Squadron in Westhampton...
