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WARREN sound, VA., United States (AP) - again and again 12-year-old Brianna Bowens is the human eyeball carefully. On purpose.
The donated eye is harder than you'd think. It will take to pierce the white part - of sclera a few slices with a sharp scalpel, she learns - and ultimately remove the cornea before.
Sezieren a human eye is not the normal fare of summer camp. It is a part of an unusual program in a small Northern Virginia Hospital, the children already in the middle school on the possibilities of a medical career hook.
It is not for the squeamish. But no one has ever fainted in the eye.
"I have a strong stomach," says Brianna Stafford, VA., Pediatric surgeon would be "or maybe a nurse."
She reveals their excitement when she did, the branch-like optic nerve, lens magnifying glass and carefully created clear cornea. Whipped cream from their cell phone, explains it, "wait, I have to take a picture."
Tom Gaile Old Dominion eye Foundation teaches the crash course in the Fauquier hospital medical camp, with eyes for education, to explain the importance of organ and tissue donation donated.
"This is something that goes to to stay the rest of their lives with them," he says.
Lure programs, budding scientists from building robots for the measurement of air pollution, are part of the ritual summer increasingly. On the side of health it can be difficult to find hospitals, free space and young people give a taste of what learn-staff - early medical students how to suture lines skin, put on a cast to take blood pressure, set an IV, type blood - much less precious handle eyes donated.
But more medical camps are cropping, although no one keeps a count. And if 12 young, sounds good, Virginia in particular targets middle school / inside so that they align enough science courses for the best shot at increasingly competitive college training programs.
"You can't wait til you are senior and decide, 'I want to go into health care,'", says Barbara Brown, Vice President of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association, which helps the camps finance.
It is one of 760 mostly middle school students through medical enter - to five - day camps in 26 hospitals in this summer.
The idea is, a wide range of critical health career of nurse anaesthetists, pharmacist present physiotherapists.
"" No one ever says"I would like to be an organ restoration technicians", says Julie Fainter Fauquier health, which coordinates the medical camp in this town West of Washington, D.C.
Evaluation of questions, the Gaile pepper, is perhaps some. The eye does remove funeral map? No, the lids are closed. People can donate only the cornea or the entire eye, that important, because the sclera in some eye surgery is transplantiert and the rest is used for research. An eye changes color according to the text is? Yes, all IRIS turn after a while Brown.
Marquesia Atwater, 14, came from suburban Atlanta, after her mother a Google search for medical camps Act.
"I decided my whole life, I wanted to be a doctor", she says, cemented a decision of the camp. As it it says the lens of the eye examined: "I know there has never been so much stuff in the eye."
In July and August, 92 children two days in the Fauquier will spend bearings designed for beginner or returning students. Finance most of a $15,000 Hospital Association grant and staff contributions, pay $50 for children to visit.
Eyes are not only practical experience.
How can you learn to a sewing cut, if you practice on people can not? Using pigs feet, but nurse Wendy Greenwood ensures that the children keep things as sterile, as if it were a person.
Gloves on. Swab the wound with iodine. No scratches your nose, Greenwood told a student - and watch where you put the curved needle, so that nobody dies.
Will Merriken, 12, Warrenton, VA., surfaces, seven stitches, each a little faster than he gets more comfortable with careful node. "It is much easier, once you've practiced and got down the movements."
At the hospital lab. If a child goes to get lightheaded, this is where it happens is Fainter chemical smell or the heat necessary for the culturing of bacteria says, perhaps because of the weak. They weapons they ward off with Peppermints to Wooziness.
Inside, voluntary, first stab to his fingers and test his blood type is. He drips blood on a slide and medical technologist Suzie Capron a kind but not yet a lump explains how different antibodies form. He is a B positive.
Down in the emergency room on a quiet Wednesday morning, Dr. Greg Wagner collects a dozen of the students for what a mock code called a revival drill that doctors and nurses perform to optimize their own capabilities.
Paramedics race in a mannequin: a 45-year-old woman in cardiac arrest.
The children each associated with a job he spring into action under direction of Wagner. A pumping air into the "patients' lungs. It adds a tube to open the trachea. Three trade-off CPR. Another is the defibrillator before each of the three call shocks "Yeah!". Others give injections of heart-stimulating drugs.
Ten minutes later, they fall abruptly quietly how Wagner asks how long they are trying to keep should be, to declare before the death. No one volunteer.
"How often crime patients?" 14 Year-old Lark Nash of Warrenton, asks after all.
Probably once in a week, Wagner, replies describe the most difficult part of his work. Nurses the bed, and the students reveal a body bag lining zip it on the mannequin.
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