FPS Gamer Saves Life of Stranger
I picked this article up from MMOSITE. Paxton Galvanek, a 28 Year Old FPS Gamer in the US, saved a life because of the lessons he learned from his favorite First Person Shooter (FPS) game, America’s Army. He was driving home when he saw an SUV flip over. He quickly stopped the car and checked if he could help out. At this point, the things he learned from being an army solider from the game he played kicked in. He quickly pulled out the two men and set aside the guy with minor injuries after warning him to stay clear of the smoking car.
The other guy was in worse condition. He was bleeding everyone and even had missing fingers! Paxton pulled him out of the wreckage and applied first aid in war time as he knew it from America’s Army. Paxton checked the head wound and decided it wasn’t too serious and focused on hte hand instead. He pressed towels to contain the bleeding and asked the man to keep his head up so he won’t get knocked out. After a few minutes, the 911 team finally arrived to help him out. Guess what? Paxton did all the things necessary to save the life of both men. The training he got from America’s Army was actually real first aid procedures for war!
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Some time after the incident, Paxton wrote the people behind America’s Army, thanking them for the medical training in the game he had used to possibly save a stranger’s life. “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,” he wrote.
“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.”
Said Casey Wardynski, the project director for America’s Army, “Paxton is a true hero. We are pleased to have played a role in providing the lifesaving training that he employed so successfully at the scene.”
Truly amazing and inspiring! 
I’ll be posting more updates soon. I hope you guys enjoy the weekend! Cheers!
January 25th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
wow amazing story to!!! in everything a person does may natututunan talaga cya.. kahit sa pinaka maliit na bagay… pero doing things like that is incredible.. o ha english un hehe… good PM sa lahat ng Valkyrian!
January 25th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I have seen this article in Yahoo! News, and I must say being a gamer is one thing to be proud of.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Di rin siguro, hehe mahirap na rin kung gamer ka o adik sa mga laro :D
January 25th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Waw…now that’s really inspiring. Mas maganda talaga na while playing and enjoying ourselves, we get to learn something, we get to achieve something good out of it. Great inspiration for all the gamers out there. Hehe. Magandang image to the gaming industry. ^^
January 26th, 2008 at 1:32 am
trivia: America’s Army was made by the US government itself to recruit!!
kailan kaya tayo magkakaroon ng Philipine Army or NPA shooter game lol (well may mga game developers naman dito sa bansa hehe)
January 26th, 2008 at 10:38 am
now thats somthing gamers could be inspired and proud of! go gamers! show everyone that we could also be the best people’s in the world! :D
January 26th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
ano kaya maaaply natin sa RO na pwede nating gamitin IRL??
sa DoTA kaya??
January 26th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
@roji
I can do first aid (RO skill) when I will see someone who is needing help. /gg
January 26th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
I’m more interested of what the (Anti Gaming) community would have anything to say about this and yet such an inspiring story.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
hndi lang pla violence ang nkukuha sa gaming tulad ng dobol strafe sa seatmate! bash sa gstong kopyahan! at kung anu anu pang galing sa laro hehehe..
January 29th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
ang galing naman.. sa bawat laro tlaga, hindi pwede na walang matutunan ang isang tao..
wak lang sana ako ma-extremity fist ng classmate ko.. /omg
thats bad! /heh
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:33 am
Haha. Acid bomb ang mga kinaiinisan sa pilipinas :D
..hmm, saktong chemistry-related ang course ko. Woot!
A little bit of household chemicals here, brew a bunch of molotov cocktails there.. voila~!
ACID BOMB!! (Thank you, RO!)