WAVY’s Navy Ship Salute is a feature on WAVY News 10 Today. Each month, in partnership with the U.S. Navy, WAVY-TV 10 will profile a different ship based at the world’s largest Navy base: Naval Station Norfolk. The series aims to better introduce our viewers to some of the largest floating taxpayer assets there are, as well as life aboard a U.S. Navy ship.
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – For this month’s Navy Ship Salute, 10 On Your Side’s Nick Broadway is onboard the USS Tortuga to learn how they deal with medical emergency exercises.
“So, we’re going to do a medical training team scenario with your arm,” HM1 Brandon Strausser said. “We do this weekly to make sure that all the sailors that we have on board are able to go through what we have as our March algorithm. And as we respond, we’ll be able to go through what exactly March stands for.”
With makeup covering his right arm to look like an injury, WAVY’s Nick Broadway did his best to act like a casualty while HMC Charles Taylor demonstrated what it is they do to save lives.
“With you talking to us, we assume you have an airway,” Taylor said while applying a tourniquet to Broadway’s arm. “If you were unconscious, these are some of the techniques we are trained to use to open your airway so you can breath better.”
Taylor then demonstrated the chin lift, where you tilt the persons head back with a palm to their forehead and two fingers underneath the chin in order to look inside the patients mouth to check on any possible issues, such as broken teeth that could get in the way.
“And now, all of Hampton Roads can see my fillings,” Broadway said after the chin lift.