Titans Medical Staff Tackles Different Scenarios in NFL Emergency Preparedness Training

Sills, a surgeon at Vanderbilt, said emergency medical preparation exercises are taking place at facilities at all 32 NFL teams leading up to training camp.

The goal is to be prepared for every scenario, whether it’s at a game, at practice, while traveling, or anything that could happen at a facility. Sills said on game days, over 30 medical professionals are regularly on hand, divided between those who work for the team and independent medical staff, and specialists.

All of them were inside the team’s practice facility on Monday at Asension Saint Thomas Sports Park, practicing on who is in charge of each responsibility on game days, and other real-life scenarios like the one that played out in Cincinnati last season, when Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest during the game.

“To have that real world, active training is crucial,” Sills said. “And if you look back to situations like the Damar Hamlin situation, in that moment, those specialists are simply doing what they have trained on a day like today to do.”