What training methods should replace the current use of animals?
The most important elements of combat trauma training are realism, human-specific injuries and treatments, volume of trauma exposure, and team building. The ideal training paradigm combines medical simulators, immersive simulated combat environments, and military or civilian trauma center training. As for chemical casualty care training courses, researchers with the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps and Israel’s Carmel Medical Center have developed a nonanimal training curriculum for the medical management of patients exposed to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. The course includes didactic teaching, simulation training, and the use of moulage, in which actors with makeup mimic the signs and symptoms of chemical warfare casualties.
