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| style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: #f9f9f9;">During a May 17 drill to handle patients from a nuclear accident, UAMS Medical Center Emergency Department physicians and nurses encountered a scenario even veterans of previous drills didn’t anticipate.
The biennial radiological drill is held to ensure safety and efficiency during the treatment of radiation injuries, while Federal Emergency Management Agency evaluators watched to assess how well the medical staff performed.
“Overall it went well,” said Ron Crane, UAMS emergency preparedness manager. “We had one or two bumps, but that’s to be expected. That’s why we do these things. We hold ourselves to quite a high standard.”
It was the fifth drill at UAMS in which Crane participated, and it was different from the previous four.