HERSHEY — Blood seeps from the patient's head as a paramedic in a blue flight suit rolls a stretcher into the brightly lit trauma resuscitation room.

"Is he taking medication?" asks a doctor. "Any allergies?"

The man in the flight suit speaks quickly.

"He's confused right now and unable to answer these questions.

Um. We found a bottle of alcohol in his vehicle."

The doctor looks up at the team of people who are rushing around near the operating table.

"Who's doing primary survey?"

"I am," shouts one of the nurses.

The patient has visible wounds to his head, chest, arm and leg. An X-ray shows his pelvis fractured like a puzzle that isn't put together right.

"We'd do a rectal check. And put a catheter in," one of the doctors says.

"But we're not going to do either at this point."

Why not?

Because it's just a drill, performed for about 30 Penn State trustees and university administrators on a tour of the Hershey Medical Center on Friday.

The demo includes a real landing of the Life Lion ambulance helicopter and lots of fake blood.

"This patient, if he didn't get care very quickly, would die very soon," explained Sara Service, manager of the trauma program.

Hershey runs one of central Pennsylvania's only Level I trauma centers.

The center is one of the most well equipped emergency care facilities.

Hershey's trauma center received 1,562 patients last year, Service said.

This drill is modeled after one of them — a 24-year-old man who drove his car through a fence and into a cornfield at 55 miles per hour.

"This guy's bleeding very badly into his pelvis," says orthopedic surgeon J. Spence Reid.

As he says this, he slides another one of the patient's X-rays onto a light board.

The pictures show fluid pooling into the man's gut.

His bladder has been ripped apart in the wreck.

In real life, the patient survived.

It took weeks of treatment at Hershey before he was able to discharge urine on his own.

In the demo, the "patient" is Brett Cummings, a 1997 Penn State graduate who works in the information technology department at Hershey.

He sat up at the end of the act and began peeling the fake flesh from his forehead.

"I enjoy the ride in the helicopter, so I always volunteer to do this," he said.