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2 Day Tactical First Responder Trauma Course

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Spent Brass:
TACTICAL FIRST RESPONDER COURSE

This introductory course has been designed and intended for any individual with basic medical knowledge and skills to treat wounds that are common in defensive encounters and other emergency situations. Through both Lecture and scenario-based training, students will gain the confidence to be able to react to, assess, and treat a variety of injuries.
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
* Block of instruction on the Rescue task Force Concept
*Block of instruction on Tactics with an emphasis on Basic Close Quarter Battle


 Upon completion of the course participants will:
 
•   Understand the rationale for immediate steps for hemorrhage control (including external hemorrhage control, direct pressure and wound packing, early use of tourniquet for severe hemorrhage, internal hemorrhage control by rapid evacuation, and transportation to major hospital/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

Course Cost: $400 per student
Course Duration: 2 days
Course Date: Nov 4-5, 0800 - 1700
Course Location: Lytle Creek Firing Range, 1210 Lytle Creek rd, Lytle Creek, CA
Attendance: Send email to Spentbrasstrainingsolutions@gmail.com
You will receive a PayPal invoice, Once paid you will have a spot reserved for the course.

[url]http://www.spentbrasstraining.com/medics/first-responder-course/url]

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Instructor Bio:
Crecencio “VAL” Valenzuela is the founder of and current Lead instructor for Spent Brass Training Solutions, LLC. Val is currently a NAEMT Affiliate Faculty member, Course coordinator and Instructor for Tactical Combat Casualty care in California. As a former High Threat Security Contractor for an exceedingly reputable Private Security Company in Iraq, Val has provided Close Protection (CP) as a Personal Security Detail (PSD) member, and also the team medic as he holds a National Registry for Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and U.S. Army Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC).
Val has been a Lead Tactics and Weapons instructor to not only other PSD teammates and teams, but to Expats and Third Country Nationals of the host country’s nation as well. A combat veteran with the U.S. Army Infantry (1st AD & 3rd ID), Chris served 5 and half years with multiple combat and NATO tours to include Macedonia, Kosovo and Iraq. While on active duty in the Infantry as a fire team leader, Val was a weapons and tactics instructor at the company level. Val also has time spent as a civilian military weapons and tactics based instructor for Federal, State and Local entities. Current Staff Instructor for Covered6 and Suarez International inc, Affiliate Staff instructor for Phokus Research Group and ZERT.

Val’s firearms certifications include:

·National Rifle Association (NRA) Law Enforcement Handgun & Shotgun
·Department of State Basic Field Firearms Officers Course (BFFOC)
·United States Navy Small Arms Marksmanship Instructor (SAMI)
·Suarez Combat Arms Instructor School

Val’s other certifications include:

·Department of State for World Wide Personal Protective Services II (WWPPS)
·Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
·Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
·International Trauma Life Support (ITLS)
·US Army Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)
·NAEMT Affiliate Faculty – Tactical Combat Casualty Care
·NAEMT TCCC/TECC – Instructor
·Combat Life Saver (CLS)

rth:
I took the 2 day Tactical First Responder course with Instructor Val and his guest Instructor, Tim Clay and left the class with all the tools and knowledge necessary to provide life saving care as a first responder. Both Instructors are an incredible source of experience and knowledge who lead by example and truly ensured all members of the course were well trained by the end of our two day course.

Day one consisted of part classroom instruction and part hands on practice with the skills we were learning in the classroom. The governing concept of Tactical Trauma Care lies within the MARCH algorithm which is taught repeated constantly throughout the whole course. Instructor Val has done a great job structuring this course around the MARCH algorithm and taking things one step at a time. On day one, we stepped through this algorithm one piece at a time, first with an introduction to the step, then background and finally a practical exercise.

Day two consisted of almost exclusively hands on training. We performed wound packing on a slab of pork. We were taught the very basics on how to systematically clear a room of potential threats. We practiced a variety of carries and drags. Finally we performed mock scenarios to demonstrate our skills and perform under pressure.

This class is very well taught and extremely informative and I recommend it to anyone looking to gain the knowledge and skills it takes to stop the bleed and save a life!

A quick summary of the skills learned in the course, working with the MARCH algorithm, is as follows:
*Combat mindset: an introduction to the mental state of a being of a person under extreme stress and/or injury. This was a very helpful introduction to have because it made me aware to the kinds of mental blocks I could face in a trauma situation.

*M: massive hemorrhaging

-We covered the use tourniquets extensively. Through self application as well as application on a victim.
-We covered the use of a hemostatic agent (Combat Gauze) and wound packing.
-We covered the use of pressure dressings such as the Israeli bandage.
-We also covered direct and indirect pressure in the event the above mentioned tools are not available to you.

*A: airway

-We covered the evaluation of a patients airway and how to position their airway correctly. As well as an appropriate position to lay a patient in.
-We covered the use of a Nasal Pharyngeal Airway.

*R: Respiration
-We covered the use of chest seals to combat difficulty breathing due to a chest/lung puncture.

*C: circulation (non life threatening wounds)
-We covered how to determine weather or not a wound is life threatening or not and how to properly care for and dress the wounds.
-We covered splinting of arms and legs in case of a break.

*H: head and hypothermia
-We covered full patient assessments from the head to toes.
-We covered strategies for hypothermia management.

And again, this a absolutely awesome class taught by true professionals with real world experience and should be taken by anyone even remotely interested in learning trauma care.

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