Recent heat increases over South Texas prompted a new type of training: mass casualty incident heat response.
UT Health Emergency Medicine Doctor and Assistant Professor Dr. Bryan Everitt who was drawn to research better ways to respond to heat strokes after witnessing the scene where 53 migrants died suffocated by heat.As temperatures reached 100 degrees, Dr. Bryan Everitt arrived at the scene of the most deadly human smuggling event in U.S. history on the city’s South Side.
He took a page from sports medicine journals, in which doctors were already using cool water immersion to treat athletes, and suggested the use of Thermal Emergency Management Patient bags — TEMP for short —to quickly cool down a person at the scene. Before, getting to the nearest hospital took several minutes. Time these victims don’t have.
“We are all speaking the same language now. We, all the STRAC, all the EMS agencies, all the fire departments, we are all speaking the same language now. This has been really a monumental shift in the way we think about MCI’s ,” he said. “We were never really doing a very good job of” responding to heat-related illnesses before, said Nikki Hardwick, paramedic for Wilson County EMS 3 and clinic operations manager.
The TEMP bags, had they been available, “would’ve made a difference in being able to protect some perfusion of the brain,” she said. “ their homes, having to make tough decisions regarding what they’re going to spend their limited income on: ‘Are we going to be able to afford that electricity bill for the AC, versus eating this week?’
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