FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Ann Arbor, MI
Leaders in the EMS field have judged FAAC’s MILO Response simulator to be a premier training product for the
second time this year.

MILO Response has earned the EMS World New Product Innovation recognition for 2014. Earlier this year the new
simulator was awarded EMS Today’s HOT Product Award.

“Receiving our second independent EMS industry award is very gratifying,” said
FAAC’s Public Safety Business Manager. “Our sole focus is producing simulation training products, and
to create a brand new category of training for the EMS market and then being acknowledged at this level out
of the gate means that we hit the mark. We knew we were on the right track to provide a new and engaging
training product for EMTs, Fire-Rescue, and hospitals. To have industry leaders independently observe MILO
Response and conclude that this training product will directly aid in the safety of our EMTs and others gives
us great pride.”

MILO Response, which was introduced to the market earlier this year, advances EMT training by placing a team
in a dynamic and immersive training environment that provides real-life situations unfolding in real-time.
The result of this fully ‘life-sized’ training environment is a simulation that fully engages the
learner and produces students who make smarter and safer decisions.

This bridge between classroom and real-life experience adds a new dimension to an instructor’s training
program. The system develops and improves the trainee’s field skills in an intensified setting using
outcomes-based scenarios created with specific training objectives in mind.

Scenarios are specifically designed to meet a targeted training objective. They generally pose several
decision points to the trainee through video-branching pathways. Based on the trainee’s reaction to the
decision point, the on-screen subjects react accordingly and either comply or do not comply. In other words,
this is a safe learning environment where a learner’s good decisions lead to positive outcomes and bad
decisions generally produce negative outcomes.

Scenarios are selected from a pre-built library by an instructor based on his or her training objective.
FAAC’s professionally created scenario curriculum includes training in the areas of:

•Observation / situational awareness / scene assessment
•Strategic / positional / safety awareness
•Medical assessment / differential diagnosis
•Ethical / emotional response management
•Verbal communications / cultural and behavioral sensitivity skills
•Procedural protocols, such as R.A.C.E.

Since its unveiling, MILO Response continues to push the outer limits of its training capability. FAAC has
crafted a simulation trainer that agencies can use to create their own training content in addition to the
on-board included scenarios, allowing them to place their trainees in situations that the agency and its
members may have actually encountered. Students go ‘hands-on’ and practice different tactics and
techniques they will need to use in the field. Extended time in a real-life, simulation exercise equals a
more effective trainee, which means a better prepared professional to safely handle the daily rigors and
non-traditional reactions necessary in today’s various health fields.