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Tech makes leaps in rural EMS training
23 Oct 2026
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Via South Central Minnesota EMS, rural emergency medical services across Southern Minnesota and Martin County are accessing interactive training through virtual reality.
Before, Regional Executive Director Mark Griffith said all of their emergency simulations required a lot of equipment, which had to travel from its home base to wherever in the nine-county area needed training.
"Let’s say we were going to practice airway management," he said. "We would have to bring an airway mannequin. We’d have to bring airways. We had to bring the accessories for the airways like bag valves, oxygen bottles, that sort of thing. We had to find a mannequin that would all work on, and then we had to paint that picture."
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