OK Fine Productions
PO Box 225
Casper, WY 82602

In October of 2007, Wyoming Medical Center conducted a drill that involved receiving patients because of a simulated chemical assault here in Casper. During that drill, personal property were damaged and a couple of volunteers became extremely cold.
In order to receive patients into the Emergency Room, many procedures must take place. One procedure is to decontaminate, or remove the chemical from an injured patient before they enter the clean Emergency Room environment. Some patients are incapacitated or traumatically injured and must be cleaned by trained staff members. Manually decontamination trauma patients can subject health worker and volunteer patients to injury and damage to personal property. Some examples are hypothermia, accidental dropping from backboard due to the wet and cold shower environment, broken glasses/hearing aides, removing clothing and other liabilities.
To minimize problems associated with decontamination drills, I approached you with an idea of creating a Decontamination Dummy to replace contaminated trauma volunteer patients. The Dummy you have produced has been well received and will now take the place of non-ambulatory volunteers. In addition to decontamination, this new Decon Dummy can also be used as mock patients during “Surge Capacity” drills. I’m quite certain that more uses will arise.

Sincerely,
Mike W. Magee
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
Wyoming Medical Center
1233 E. 2nd
Casper, WY 82601
307-577-7201