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Midwestern University's Body Donation Program is continuing a successful joint training initiative with local firefighters to help them practice critical emergency procedures that they will eventually use on patients in the field, via a collaboration with the University’s Body Donation Program.

Over the course of three sessions in late January and early February, Glendale Fire Department Firefighters will receive training and hands-on practice in procedures such as emergency intubation, placement of chest tubes, intraosseous vascular access to establish IVs, cricothyrotomy (a procedure to establish an airway on a patient in extreme distress), and other extremely important lifesaving techniques used in the field every day. Since all Glendale Firefighters are required to qualify as EMTs, and approximately half of them are also paramedics, the entire department will have the opportunity to participate. The Firefighters will practice these techniques using donors from the Midwestern Body Donation Program under the guidance of University faculty, staff, and healthcare students from the Emergency Medicine Club, giving the participants a chance to perfect their skills using actual human anatomy before employing the techniques in the field.

"The Midwestern University Body Donation Program and Fire Department/EMS Volunteer Opportunity represents a cutting-edge collaborative approach to prehospital EMS training and education," says April Cornejo, Director, Body Donation Program. "Volunteering during this training provides our students with valuable learning experiences along with the collaboration with our local fire departments to better understand the prehospital environment, the challenges it brings, and the important role that EMS personnel have in the care of our patients."

The cadaver training sessions are part of an ongoing series of collaborations between the Glendale Fire Department and Midwestern University, which include ride-along programs for Midwestern medical and physician assistant students, a Crisis Response Unit stationed at the University’s Glendale Campus, and more. This is the third year that Glendale Fire and Midwestern have partnered for these training sessions. The Peoria Fire Department held their second-annual training sessions with the Body Donation Program last September.

The Midwestern University Body Donation Program, established in 2016, provides donors to assist medical students in learning human anatomy. Because students work with actual human bodies rather than simulators or models, they can observe, manipulate, and experience anatomy in a hands-on environment, practicing crucial surgical techniques and procedures with real tissue, musculoskeletal systems, and organs prior to employing those techniques on live patients. Donors are generously provided by themselves and/or their families with the express intent of furthering healthcare education, and upon completion of anatomical studies, cremated remains are returned to the families in express accordance with their wishes.