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Even though Commander Dan Triggs, BSN, RN, was stationed for 13 months with the U.S. Navy Reserve at a hospital in Germany, he was still able to see his wife and three children several times per week. That’s thanks to the webcam that his colleagues on the Neuroscience ICU gave him before he left for Landsthul last year.
“It was tremendous,” said Triggs, whose wife Angela works in the BWH Pharmacy. “I was able to set up a time with each of my children at the webcam, and that was their time to talk to dad about anything they wanted.”
Triggs has served in the Navy Reserve for 15 years, but this was his first long-term assignment overseas. He served in a hospital treating wounded members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, allied forces and civilian contract workers from Iraq and Afghanistan.
“When people were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were treated at hospitals there and then sent to us before going back to the U.S.,” Triggs said. “We made sure they were hemodynamically stable and brought them to the OR to clean their wounds. The soldiers and civilians we treated received excellent care.”
Triggs, who has worked at BWH for 18 years, cared for patients with multiple burns, amputations and other traumas. “It broadened my professional perspective tremendously,” said Triggs, who was welcomed home by his colleagues on the Neuro ICU earlier this month.