Trauma and Gunshot Wound First Aid
What’s worse than a life lost? A life that could have been saved.
This comprehensive training program is designed to equip you with the understanding and knowledge you need to save a life – maybe even your own – in the event of a GSW (gunshot wound) or other types of life-threatening trauma.
This program is based upon updated Co-TCCC (Council on Tactical Combat Casualty Care), TEMS (Tactical Emergency Medical Services), and TECC (Tactical Emergency Casualty Care) standards, yet was developed for use by the medical layman or average person.
NO previous medical knowledge or training is required to learn, understand, and apply these life-saving techniques!
In this four-hour training program, you will learn:
- What your IFAK (individual first-aid kit) and go-bag should contain
- Safety & security concerns regarding care under fire
- How to properly stage and use a tourniquet (C-A-T)
- Treatment of massive hemorrhaging
- Understanding and using hemostatic agents & antihemorrhagics
- Treatment, dressing, and stabilization of a penetration wound
- Understanding and using vented and non-vented chest seals
- Controlling shock
- Airway maintenance
- Treatment of a tension pneumothorax
- Treatment of evisceration injuries
- Effects of hypothermia on massive hemorrhaging and how to prevent it
- Recovery positions and patient reassessments
- and much more!
Students will get hands-on training with several of the techniques taught in this program.
Time: 3 hours
Cost: $55
