Penn medical students learn to respond to bear attacks, avalanches, and dirty bombs

Penn medical student Andy North pretends to be the victim of a black bear attack as other students assess his condition. From left: Kiran Raja, Sam Stedman, Brooke Bernardin, Daniel Park, and Francisco Zepeda took part in the training exercise at Camp Shelly Ridge in Lafayette Hill.The nine victims were scattered across an area half the size of a football field, their bodies hurled by the force from an explosive device.

The exercise, held at Camp Shelly Ridge, a Girl Scout camp in Lafayette Hill, was part of a two-week elective in wilderness and disaster medicine at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. Students learn to treat injuries from bear attacks, avalanches, dirty bombs, and chemical weapons, among other dire out-of-hospital scenarios.

Among the lessons Bar shared with students from that episode: Never try to identify an unknown substance by taking a whiff, lest it be hazardous. An emergency responder made the mistake of doing so on that occasion, telling the physician that leftover fluid in the milk cartons smelled like vinegar. The physician was part of a group making a nine-day trek to one of Everest’s base camps when they came across their fellow climber sitting by the side of the trail at an altitude of 13,000 feet.

“People are very committed at that point,” said Zold, who along with other members of her group cut short their own climb in order to help the ailing climber back down to safety.For the explosion training exercise, four students played the role of responders. Eight other students, along with an assistant instructor in the course, pretended to be the victims.

A reasonable instinct, but unfortunately, not the best choice in this case, the course instructors told them afterward. The nine victims were scattered so far apart from each other that the responders were unable to keep them all under constant observation.

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