Bodycam Recording: EMT Students in a Trauma Simulation

This bodycam recording captures EMT students in the middle of a high-intensity training simulation. The footage begins as the crew exits the ambulance and sprints up a hill to reach a patient with a simulated amputation and severe bleeding. From the bodycam perspective, you see exactly what the student sees—rapid assessment, communication, hemorrhage control, and teamwork under pressure.

At CERT, we use bodycams during training scenarios to give students the chance to later review their performance. Watching themselves in action allows them to evaluate treatment techniques, refine communication, and strengthen leadership skills—ensuring they’re better prepared for the real world.

Beyond The Classroom

Captured from a drone’s perspective, this video showcases our EMT students responding to a simulated emergency deep in the woods. From above, you can see the team move with purpose as they assess injuries, communicate effectively, and secure the patient onto a backboard for transport. Their coordination and attention to detail reflect the same focus expected in real-world emergency situations.

By incorporating drone footage, we’re able to give students and viewers a unique perspective on teamwork, scene management, and overall performance. This type of scenario-based training builds confidence, sharpens critical thinking, and prepares our students to respond effectively—wherever emergencies occur.

Outdoor Scenario Training

Our EMT students don’t just train in the classroom—they practice in realistic environments that mirror real-world emergencies. In this scenario, students are working as a team to assess, stabilize, and package a simulated patient in a wooded area. Under the guidance of experienced instructors, they learn critical skills such as spinal immobilization, patient movement, and coordination in challenging outdoor settings.

This hands-on approach prepares our students to respond confidently and effectively—whether on city streets, in rural areas, or anywhere an emergency call takes them.

Field Training – Limb Amputation Scenario

In this immersive outdoor training scenario, our EMT students respond to a simulated traumatic limb amputation. The high-fidelity manikin is equipped with realistic features—including active bleeding—allowing students to experience the urgency and pressure of treating a life-threatening injury in real time.

This dynamic exercise pushes students to apply their classroom knowledge in a controlled but unpredictable environment, sharpening their trauma assessment, bleeding control, and teamwork skills. It’s one of many ways our program prepares students for the real-world challenges of emergency medical care.

Shock Management Simulation – Life-Saving Interventions in Action

In this outdoor trauma scenario, students respond to a simulated medical emergency involving a patient showing signs of shock. Working as a team, they perform rapid trauma assessment, provide ventilations with a bag-valve mask, and begin essential interventions to stabilize the patient before transport.

With real EMS gear and a high-fidelity manikin, this scenario trains students to recognize and treat shock—one of the most time-sensitive conditions in emergency medicine. It's a powerful exercise that reinforces critical thinking, teamwork, and calm under pressure when every second counts.

Motor Vehicle Accident – Vehicle Extrication & Patient Packaging

In this high-intensity outdoor scenario, students simulate the aftermath of a serious motor vehicle collision. After carefully extricating the “patient” from the vehicle, students work as a team to secure the manikin to a backboard and transfer it safely onto a stretcher for transport.

This exercise gives students hands-on experience with critical extrication techniques, spinal motion restriction, and patient movement—skills they’ll rely on during real emergency calls. The realistic environment and use of actual EMS equipment make this one of the most memorable and valuable training experiences in the program.

Wound Packing Simulation – Realistic Trauma Care

A student practices controlling a simulated arterial bleed from a gunshot wound using a high-fidelity manikin. As simulated blood pulses from the wound, she methodically packs gauze into the injury, applying direct pressure to stop the bleeding.

This hands-on scenario trains students to manage life-threatening hemorrhage under pressure—building the confidence and skill needed to act decisively in real trauma situations.

Wound Packing Practice – Managing Life-Threatening Bleeding

In this intense training scenario, one of our students practices wound packing on a high-fidelity manikin designed to simulate a deep gunshot wound with an active arterial bleed. As simulated blood pulses from the injury, the student feeds gauze directly into the wound cavity—using proper technique to apply deep, direct pressure and control the hemorrhage.

This hands-on skill is a critical component of trauma care, especially in situations involving junctional wounds where tourniquets aren’t effective. The manikin’s realistic feedback forces students to respond with urgency and precision, reinforcing muscle memory that can save lives in real emergencies.

Wound packing is messy, stressful, and unforgiving—exactly the kind of training our students need to build the confidence to act quickly and decisively when every second counts.

Wound Packing Lab – Hemorrhage Control Training

Students practice wound packing on high-fidelity bleeding simulators, learning how to control life-threatening hemorrhage using hemostatic gauze and direct pressure. This realistic training scenario replicates what EMTs may encounter in traumatic injuries such as gunshot wounds or deep lacerations.

Using simulated blood and soft tissue models, students gain hands-on experience with one of the most critical skills in emergency medicine. It’s a messy, high-stakes, and unforgettable lab that reinforces the importance of staying calm and effective under pressure.

Live Cow Lung Demonstration – Real Anatomy, Real Insight

In this unique classroom experience, an instructor uses an actual cow lung to demonstrate the anatomy and mechanics of real respiratory function. Students get a rare hands-on look at how lungs expand and contract with air, reinforcing their understanding of ventilation, oxygenation, and respiratory emergencies.

By observing the texture, structure, and movement of a real lung, students gain a deeper appreciation for the human body and the vital importance of airway management in prehospital care. It's a powerful visual tool that brings textbook concepts to life.

Pulmonary System Demonstration – Real Cow Lung Lab

In this hands-on anatomy lab, students get an up-close look at how the lungs function by observing and interacting with a real cow lung. Guided by an instructor Deputy Chief Marie Powell (MWAA), the demonstration shows how air moves through the trachea and expands the lung tissue—offering a dramatic, visual understanding of ventilation and respiration.

This unforgettable experience helps students connect classroom concepts to real anatomy, deepening their understanding of the respiratory system and the critical role it plays in emergency medicine.

Glucose Testing Practice – Hands-On Patient Assessment

A student practices performing a blood glucose test on a classmate using a glucometer, learning how to properly prep the site, use a lancet, and interpret readings. This essential skill helps EMTs identify diabetic emergencies and provide timely interventions in the field.

By practicing on one another, students build both technical accuracy and patient communication skills in a low-stress, supportive environment.