Tactical First Responder Course
Tactical First Responder Course
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This introductory course is designed for individuals with basic medical knowledge and skills, focusing on treating wounds commonly encountered in defensive situations and emergencies. Through a combination of lectures and scenario-based training, students will develop the confidence to respond to, assess, and treat various injuries effectively.
What You Will Learn
• Combat Mindset
• Physiological Response to Combat
• Preventing and Treating Common and Non-Combat Related Injuries
• Litter, Drags and Carries
• Basic Anatomy and Location of Major Arteries
• Identifying and Treating the Different Types of Bleeding
• Identifying and Immobilizing Broken Limbs
• SCAB and Treating Compromised Airway
• Treating Gun Shot and Knife Wounds
• Improvised Treatment Methods
• Constructing your Personal IFAK
Course Duration: 2 days
Upon completion of the course participants will:
· Learn the reasoning behind the immediate actions for controlling hemorrhage, including methods such as external hemorrhage control, applying direct pressure and wound packing, early use of a tourniquet for severe bleeding, managing internal hemorrhage through rapid evacuation, and transporting the patient to a major hospital or trauma center.
· Demonstrate the appropriate application of a tourniquet to the arm and leg.
· Describe the progressive strategy for controlling hemorrhage.
· Describe appropriate airway control techniques and devices.
· Demonstrate the correct application of a topical hemostatic dressing (combat gauze).
· Recognize the tactically relevant indicators of shock.
Skills Stations:
1. Hemorrhage Control:
a. Apply Tourniquet
b. Apply Direct Pressure
c. Apply Pressure Dressing
d. Apply Wound Packing
e. Apply Hemostatic Agent
2. Airway:
a. Apply Manual Maneuvers (chin lift, jaw thrust, recovery position)
b. Insert Nasal pharyngeal airway
3. Breathing:
a. Application of effective occlusive chest seal
b. Apply Occlusive Dressing
c. Application of Improvised Occlusive chest seal
5. Wound management:
a. Apply Eye Shield
b. Apply Dressing for evisceration
c. Apply Extremity Splint
d. Apply Sling and Swath
e. Initiate Basic Burn Treatment
6. Prepare Casualty for Evacuation:
a. Move Casualty (drags, carries, lifts)
b. Secure casualty to litter
7. Scenarios:
a. To be determined upon course location & available assets
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