Category: News
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ICRC Mass Casualty Incident Training
Emergency Preparedness is a key element of International Committee of the Red Cross – ICRC’s engagement and support to health systems. Mass Casualty Incident Training (MCI Training) is an institutional course that helps health services, prehospital and in hospital, to develop a new or improve an existing Mass Casualty Plan. It also gives guidance about…
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International ETS Senior instructor course
20 new ETS Senior instructors certified at the ETS Competence center in August 2024! Participants were from Saudi Arabia, USA, Lebanon, Germany, Denmark, Malaysia and Sweden. We wish all good luck with future exercises back home! There are now close to 3 000 certified ETS Senior instructors in 47 countries. Next international ETS Senior instructor courses…
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Decontamination at hospital set in French
The ETS Decontamination set version 4 (Décontamination en milieu Hospitalier) is now translated to French! Also the uninjured victim bank (Banque de victimes indemnes) is now available in French. The sets have been translated in collaboration with the ETS faculty in Canada at CHUM – Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. The in-hospital patient bank…
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ETS in-hospital patient banks now available in French!
The ETS In-hospital patient banks for ED, Surgery and ICU in version 4 are now available also in French! The sets have been translated to French in collaboration with the ETS faculty in Canada at CHUM – Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. The Decontamination at Hospital set is now also available in French! For…
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Senior instructor course in Sydney
In May the ETS faculty in New South Wales (NSW) held an ETS Senior instructor course in Sydney Australia. The faculty in NSW started in 2008 and have since then trained more than 600 instructors! During the course in May, five new ETS Educators was trained to be part of the faculty and help train…
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Testing ETS in-hospital ward patients
The ETS Competence centre are developing a new ETS material with in-hospital patients for ward departments. ETS in-hospital patients have for a long time been available for emergency department, surgery department and ICU. With this material, you can also include ward departments in an exercise. It can also be used for exercises specifically for an…
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Course dates international ETS Senior instructor courses 2025
Two international Emergo Train System (ETS) Senior instructor courses will be held in 2025. The international course is held in English and open for applicants from all over the world. The course is held by the ETS Competence center at KMC – Center for Teaching & Research in Disaster Medicine and Traumatology in Linköping, Sweden. …
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Senior instructor course in Canada
The ETS faculty in Canada held a Senior instructor course April 29-May 1 with 16 participants. We wish all new ETS instructors good luck with future exercises! The Canadian ETS faculty will conduct two more ETS Senior instructor courses in 2024: September 11-13 (in English) and September 30-October 2 (in French). Apply on links below!…
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Swedish Senior instructor course
In April the ETS Competence center held a Swedish ETS Senior instructor course. The participants were from different health care regions in Sweden and learned how to plan, set up, run and evaluate simulation exercising by using ETS. Next course (in Swedish) will be held December 17-19 2024. Apply on link below! https://regionostergotland.luvit.se
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New survivor bank for the ETS Psychosocial support set
There is now a brand-new survivor bank with children for the Emergo Train System (ETS) Psychosocial support material! The material consists of 125 survivors aged 0-18 years. It is designed so you can set up scenarios with only children, for example a school class. For that reason, the material consists of survivors in different age…
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ETS Senior instructor course in Canada
The Emergo Train System (ETS) faculty in Canada conducted an ETS Senior instructor course in Montréal in January. The course was held in French and with 22 participants. Next ETS Senior instructor courses in Canada will be held in September. One course in English and one in French. Register for the courses on the links…
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ETS sets now translated to French!
The Emergo Train System (ETS) Pre-hospital, Hospital and Trauma victim bank version 4 sets are now translated to French in collaboration with the ETS faculty in Canada at CHUM – Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. The Pre-hospital and Hospital sets are also customized to Canadian/Québec conditions regarding colors, design of vehicles etc. The sets…
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ETS Psychosocial support instructor course
In January, 15 new Emergo Train System (ETS) Psychosocial support instructor were trained at the ETS Competence center. The participants were from different health regions and municipalities in Sweden and Denmark. During this course, the participants learn how to plan, set up, run and evaluate exercise with the help of the ETS Psychosocial support module/training…
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Airplane crash simulation at Guglielmo Marconi Airport, Bologna in Italy
Article describing an airplane crash simulation at Guglielmo Marconi Airport, Bologna in Italy October 2022 Emergo Train System (ETS) instructors in Italy have in several years used ETS for simulating mass casualty incidents at airports. The photos below are from an exercise held 2019 at the training center of Bologna Airport. Scenario was a plane…
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Gold Coast University Hospital’s mass casualty exercise
The Gold Coast University Hospital’s had on November 29 a mass casualty exercise using Emergo Train System (ETS). The scenario was a semi-trailer crashed through barriers into temporary grandstands at a motorsport event and resulted in 120 people (from the ETS trauma bank) were brought to hospitals. The aim of the exercise was to develop the…
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ICRC training in Syria
ETS have been used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for several years in their international missions and trainings. Last week ICRC held a Basic Awareness and Preparing for Emergencies (BAPE) course and two ICRC hybrid MIC workshop. The course and workshops with 40 participants in each were held in the Tartus…