It ended on Friday 7 February, at the facilities of the marine brigade Saint Mark, the XXII Combat Medicine Course. A one-month training course that annually sees Navy and inter-force medical personnel train themselves to manage medical emergencies in the operational theater, with a careful eye on the most recent Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and NATO Guidelines.
The course was attended by twenty six of the officers and marshals of the Health Corps of the Navy and a medical officer of the Air Force who have medical and military knowledge, to work in synergy with operational departments in the most disparate scenarios. Among the topics of the course, ample space was given to the treatment of massive hemorrhages, the management of the airways, thoraco-abdominal trauma, the immobilization of fractures of the limbs and pelvis and the treatment of the most frequent combat injuries.
At the end of the course the attendees were able to manage an emergency using triage and specific treatment techniques up to medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) by helicopter thanks to the support of the Grottaglie Aircraft Station. In addition to the medical teachings, by a group of instructors with proven experience in operational theaters, there is a part of instructors from the Caorle Schools battalion who enriched the course with theoretical practical lessons in land combat, weapons handling, counter ied, topography, telecommunication and NBCR. All this alternating theoretical activities with practical simulations with increasing difficulty.
The final complex exercise, which was held at the training camp in Massafra (TA), saw the visitors involved in rescuing personnel injured following a simulated IED attack on a convoy. The event was attended by the heads of the Health of the Navy, the Voluntary Military Corps of the Italian Red Cross, together with observers from the national clinical and academic world, including prof. Franco Vimercati and dr. Michele Karaboue representing the Italian societies of ultrasound in medicine and biology and medical and interventional radiology, dr. Giuseppe Maria Sechi and Dr. Dario Franchi, of the Lombardy Regional Emergency Agency, dr. Andrea Piccioli, Director General of the Higher Institute of Health and Dr. Gianluca Bellanova, head of the General Surgery Department of the Dario Camberlingo Hospital in Francavilla Fontana and ATLS instructor.
The closure of the course saw, in the "Ermanno Carlotto" barracks of the marine brigade Saint Mark, the delivery of certificates of participation in the course and the accreditation of 50 training credits for professional purposes.
