Sussex County EMS Wins Gold at 2023 JEMS Games

SCEMS is extremely proud of competition team consisting of Austen Kauffman, Chaz Tennermann, Kristen McAfee and Steve Desrosiers, who won the gold medal during this year’s JEMS Games competition. They put in a great deal of time and effort to prepare for the competition. This year’s competition was international with a team fro m South Korea competing. An outline of the challenges the teams faced d uring the competition are below. Congratulations to the SCEMS gold me dal winners!

Preliminary’s

1. MCI room: Building collapse resulting in several fatalities, including fire/EMS personnel. The team had to initially triage four v ictims and provide lifesaving treatment to one red tag priority, one patient utilizing a BLS gear bag that was “left” on the scene and with which they were not familiar. They also were able to find a Hare traction splin t in the dark room and used it to stabilize the patient's femur fracture . They were not permitted to access or use their gear bags at any point. After this, the team moved to another section of the room and had to rapidly and accurate triage 20 patients on a screen in a short period of time.

2. 20-year old male football player suffering from paralysis and neurogenic shock after a helmet-to-helmet hit. Significant hypoxia/hypotension noted along with the patient initially pres enting in full protective gear/helmet in need of removal.

3. 42 questions from a test bank in 10 minutes

4. The team responded to a medical tent at the “Indy Marathon” finish line to treat a total of four (progressing to five) patients in need of various interventions, assessments, and multi-tasking.

Finals:

The team responded to a Level I MCI car crash into pedestrians with a total of five (later progressing to six) patients. Three were red (one transitioned to black during the scenario), two were green, and one was initially green progressing to a medical priority one chest pai n/STEMI.

- Submitted by Glenn Marshall