Today our focus was PHTLS with rapid auto extrication (wow can these guys strap someone to a backboard with cravats!) I am continually impressed at how hungry for knowledge they are, wanting to always understand complex concepts (like types of shock and the physiology of shock) (that’s not an easy thing to explain through a translator, but we get it done) The doctor that’s the director of the hospital stopped in today to check in on the class and see how we were doing. The really fun thing was when we took the students out for extrication, back boarding and KED practice right in the middle of the hospital compound, was watching the hospital staff, patients and everyone else there gather around watching. It was very apparent they had never seen anything like that before.
I spotted who I’m sure will be the first Senior EMT instructor of Cambodia, He’s a Major that returned from last year and is a natural instructor helping other students and even organizing study groups at his home this weekend.
Tonight we broke away and did a little sightseeing and had a nicer dinner. We have been using the same tuk tuk driver when we need to travel at night. Tonight after dinner we went for ice cream and invited him to join us, he had never had ice cream before. Again something that seems so common for us a novelty / luxury to someone living here. (he really enjoyed it
Andy and the OESP gang
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