These firefighters from Canada are helping emergency responders in Ukraine save lives
Source: CBC News - by Julia Wong — content shared with credit to the original publisher.
Firefighter Aid Ukraine did the training in Kolomiya, Ukraine, from Jan. 25 to Feb. 2
A group of Edmonton firefighters is back home after providing combat first aid training to emergency responders in Ukraine.
The team from Firefighter Aid Ukraine, an Edmonton organization that has been distributing PPE and other equipment in Ukraine for years, visited Kolomyia in western Ukraine from Jan. 25 to Feb. 2 to teach roughly 80 doctors, paramedics and other first responders how to treat massive hemorrhages, serious internal injuries and obstructed airways — common injuries of war.
"Combat medicine really focuses on what we call the potentially preventable causes of death on the battlefield. It's a very focused and aggressive treatment towards those specific injuries, and it differs quite a bit from how I would do a paramedical assessment in Canada," said firefighter Nelson Bate.