Trauma #1
TACTIC’s Foundational Trauma Training will provide you with both the technical knowledge and mental fortitude to deal with emergency medical situations. This course is designed to prepare you for real-world situations that you very well may encounter in everyday life. Scenarios like car crashes, hiking/hunting accidents, gunshot wounds, broken bones, and more. Not only will you be taught life-saving medical techniques, but you’ll also be able to practice them hands-on with live role-players.
What you will learn:
- “STOP THE BLEED” - For completion of this course you’ll receive the ACS Stop-the-Bleed certificate
- Hands-on tourniquet application: get practice and coaching applying TQs to yourself and others
- Hands-on wound-packing and dressing: pack a gunshot wound in a human analog, and apply Israeli or other field dressings
- Range and EDC medical gear: what to carry on your battle-belt and our civilian EDC
- Hands-on scenarios with live role-players to practice life-saving skills and "put the pieces together" using the skills they just learned
- Q&A with instructors
- Bonus for staying late: a brief intro to ersatz and improvised equipment options
- Is the scene safe? Are there any dangers? Are there any threats? Is the patient a danger? Is the patient armed?
- Roadway/highway vs supermarket active shooter analogy
- Life threats vs secondary treatments (tourniquet/chest wound vs scalp wound)
- Airway maneuvers: head tilt/chin lift, Left lateral recumbent
- Airway devices: NPA vs OPA and sizing of both
- Chest seals: vented vs non vented & burping non vented
- Pressure dressing, wound packing, and when to choose. (also cover hemostatic vs non-hemostatic)
- Basic burn injury care: stop the burning process, dry sterile dressings.
- Break vs sprain of bone/joint. Splinting considerations (CMS), and splinting with cravats.
- Shock treatment, keeping the patient warm, and dry, finding other sources of bleeding.
- Basic evacuation considerations: distance, drawbacks of EMS transport, drawbacks of “homeboy taxi”
- Ongoing assessment: rechecking interventions, reassessing for shock (pulse, temperature, skin condition, level of consciousness, mental status).
- OTC meds, and concerns with blood thinners & injured patients.
*This class will last approximately 3 Hours
