Tactical Casualty Care

[OR Department of Public Safety Standards and Training]

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Class Title:  Tactical Casualty Care Sponsoring Agency or Agencies: Beaverton Police Department Target Audience: all law enforcement, firefighters, & EMTs, When: April 29, 2023 Time: 8am - 6pm Where: Beaverton, Oregon (registered students will be provided precise address) Cost: $275 Instructor: Mike Shertz, MD - Crisis Medicine   Pre-requisites: None   Overview:  This interactive 11.5-hour course* prepares for the first few minutes of casualty evaluation in a high-risk environment. This course is designed to give you a plan to identify and manage those immediately life-threatening injuries and the knowledge and skills to implement it, while you are still engaged in an ongoing tactical problem.   The class largely deals with the Care Under Fire – Direct Threat phase of an event, where any medical care is provided while the responder and casualty are in an ongoing situation that is a direct threat to life (active shooter, building collapse, fire, secondary explosives, etc). This phase requires efficient hemorrhage control, largely with tourniquets, and patient movement.   While most injuries are not immediately life-threatening, there are some where death before the arrival of EMS is almost assured if not managed rapidly and correctly. EMS is usually delayed in these types of events due to security concerns. Instead, responding law enforcement and private citizens, either involved in the events themselves or nearby, provide most life-saving care in this phase.   This class is consistent with the Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines for all combatants, as well as the guidelines for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care for Active Bystanders and Responders with a Duty to Act. The course also exceeds the Stop the Bleed curriculum.   Tactical Casualty Care Subjects Covered:   The nature and myths of gunshot wounds and realities of their medical management How to rapidly evaluate injuries and how they affect your tactical treatment plan The concept of “care under fire” and how it differs from a non-tactical medical situation Assessment and management of penetrating, blunt, and blast injuries Assessment and management of massive hemorrhage The safe and efficient use of improvised and commercially available tourniquets Basic airway and breathing assessment, as well as management within a high-risk environment Clarifying the “sucking chest wound” and it’s actual significance Techniques for moving casualties to a safer location   This course is about 70% dynamic presentation including photos, videos, and real-life examples and 30% practical exercise, student hands-on. *The course runs a 10-hour day, minus an hour for lunch. Students will be provided an online-module as pre-course work which, if completed, will be an additional 1.5 hours of CEH.   Students take turns role-playing a casualty, having tourniquets applied, as well being drug and lifted. As such, it is advisable not to wear your finest clothing to class.   Deadline to Register: March 30, 2023   To Register, email logi...@crisis-medicine.com  Course description at https://www.crisis-medicine.com/events/tactical-casualty-care-beaverton-oregon-april-29-2023/ Full description at: https://www.crisis-medicine.com/course/tactical-casualty-care-in-person/   Attire: Casual, as students will apply tourniquets and lift and move one another, fake blood will be used which can splash,  best not to wear your finest clothing.  On scenario day, students should plan to get fake blood on them and dress accordingly.   Supplies/Equipment Needed: None   Area Lodging: there are several conveniently located hotels in Beaverton & Hillsboro, Oregon   Class Content Questions Contact: logi...@crisis-medicine.com Stay Connected with the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training: SUBSCRIBER SERVICES: Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe All  |  Help This email was sent to zlin...@sweethomefire.org using GovDelivery Communications Cloud, on behalf of: Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training · 4190 Aumsville Highway · Salem, Oregon · 97317