Last week, in the YouTube program “Scrubbing In” presented by Navy Medicine, focused on training Naval and Marines for the feeling of hypoxia. In this week’s show, the hosts are at Navy Medicine Aviation Survival Training Center in Patuxent River, Md, and the training application of the Environics Reduced Oxygen Breathing Device (ROBD2) is featured.
LCDR Corey Littel, the Director of the Aviation Survival Training Center, discusses what hypoxia is and how the pilots are trained. The Leutenant Commander discusses the use of hypobaric chambers for hypoxia awarenewss training. He explains this method is “slightly outdated.” We then are shown training lab containing a number of ROBD2 systems, as well as the use of the “much more modern means of delivering a mask on version” of hypoxia training.
Produced by U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Visual Information Directorate, published April 10, 2013
