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David Oxford
Senior News Editor
Video Gamer Uses Virtual Training To Save Real Life
Who says games don't teach anything valuable?
January 18, 2008 | 1:11 PM PST

On a treacherous drive home one November's eve, Paxton Galvanek and his wife witnessed a SUV on the opposite side of the highway flipping multiple times before coming to a stop.

His wife calling 911, Paxton took action by pulling the two passengers from the toppled vehicle and assessing the situation before taking action... all thanks to the training he had received by playing a video game.

"I have received no prior medical training and can honestly say that because of the training and presentations within America's Army, I was able to help and possibly save the injured men. As I look back on the events of that day, the training that I received in the America's Army video game keeps coming to mind.

"I remember vividly in section four of the game's medic training, during the field medic scenarios, I had to evaluate the situation and place priority on the more critically wounded. In the case of this accident, I evaluated the situation and placed priority on the driver of the car who had missing fingers. I then recalled that in section two of the medic training, I learned about controlled bleeding. I noticed that the wounded man had severe bleeding that he could not control. I used a towel as a dressing and asked the man to hold the towel on his wound and to raise his hand above his head to lessen the blood flow which allowed me to evaluate his other injuries which included a cut on his head."
source: Kotaku
Editor's Take: The sad part of all this, is that some other story would probably garner more media attention, blaming an act of violence on video games just because someone in the household had rented Tetris two weeks ago.

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