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The Advanced TC2 class was invaluable.  I’m glad this course was more than just learning about tourniquets for hemorrhage control.  Having the hands-on practice of wound packing, wrapping junctional wounds, and needle decompression on real models has given me a lot of confidence in my ability to address more than just bleeding out of arms and legs.

The online course including wound packing videos was very helpful and informative.  I think [our police] officers have a lot of comfort with tourniquets but because they’re only for arms and legs, and it was interesting to be given a possible solution for bleeding from other areas of the body where the tourniquet wouldn’t be appropriate.

Sergeant Jamie Beane | Beaverton Police Department, Oregon

I was in your Tactical First Aid class in June of 2016.  I loved the class, both lectures and demos.  A wealth of information designed to allow us to make good decisions when shit goes wrong.  734 days later, last Saturday, I was at the range for a steel challenge match and ended up addressing a 9mm ball round through a guy’s thigh.  I was so glad I took that class.  I was so glad that I took YOUR class.  Thank you for all the help.

The guy is fine.  What struck me after the fact was that I didn’t consciously decide to take action, I just hauled ass around the berm and found myself gloved up and cutting a dude’s pants.  It wasn’t a matter of confidence, more a deeper sense of duty (or maybe I just relished the opportunity).  Your class made me a better person simply by triggering a more worthwhile response.

Thomas Alldredge | Mechanical Design Engineer, B.E. Meyers & Co., Inc. 

I completed the Tactical Casualty Care course both in person and online.  Being an educator at an elementary school, I think it is important to learn these tactical care techniques as we are the first line of protection for our students.  The techniques can be used in any type of emergency situation earthquake, fire, and during active shooter situations.  Mike is a great instructor providing information that is easy to understand, remember and replicate.  I feel confident that I can help save a life!

-Ashley Parson | Extended Programs Manager | German International School

Complete Tactical Casualty Care Course

Thank you for teaching such a fantastic course! I learned more in the past week than I did in all of my education and the last ten years of practicing medicine. Thank you for what you do!

Rachel Stappler, PA-C, MHSc | Physician Assistant and Reserve Police Officer

As a school administrator with student safety as my top priority, I felt compelled to do something to prepare for the worst. Mike’s course taught our leadership team crucial skills in a clear, hands-on, rational, and accessible manner. Mike’s approach delivers Stress Inoculation for the learners, which I deeply valued. The topics are intense and real. Thinking through scenarios in advance can only serve us better in a real crisis. My team feels prepared, calm, and knowledgeable after spending the time in this course. I strongly believe that this approach to community health is one that any school should pursue. The learned skills are as good for a crisis as they are for a serious playground injury.

Thanks much Crisis Medicine and please keep up the good work.

Blake Peters, Head of School | German International School of Portland

I feel much more prepared after this course (on-line TC2).  I am a South African Police officer, am certified in First Aid, and also did the Control The Bleed course (the same one you have in the US) recently.

This TC2 course really really taught me a lot. I like the style in which Mike presents it and I value his opinions. The course stimulated me to think about certain concepts and I will surely carry this knowledge with wherever I go.

MS | South African Law Enforcement

I just completed the [online] TCC course and thought I’d drop you a note and let you know how much I liked the course.  Actually loved the course!  I am a CPA and over the years have done a ton of CPE to maintain my certification and this ranks in the top classes I have taken.  Maybe the best.  Exceptionally well done!

Thank you for providing this material.  I hope I never have to use it, but as with CPR, you never know.  I have had to use CPR a couple times, so I’ll sleep better after taking this course should I ever be in a situation where these skills are needed.

Mark Duncan

Tactical Casualty Care is the holy grail in crisis first aid training.  Mike Shertz expertly distills his decades of experience as a Special Forces Medic and as an Emergency Room Physician into a powerful fact-filled training that leaves you confident knowing what to do in a crisis first aid event.  Mike cuts through urban legends and misinformation and shows, through research and real-life situations, what works and what doesn’t.  Mike has seen it, done it, and knows how to share it in a powerful presentation style that sticks.  Everyone can benefit from this important information.  Highly researched, packed with examples, and delivered with top-notch production quality, this online course will give you skills that can mean the difference between life and death for someone you love or anyone you may encounter who needs crisis first aid

Douglas Taylor | Global Director of Enterprise Risk Management (Retired) | Fortune 1000 Worldwide Consulting Organization

I have taken the 5 day TCCC class twice. As a medical director for several fire departments, I can say it is the BEST trauma course you can take.

John Heiser, MD

In basic boating seamanship, there are a couple of primary rules and one is: Keep the water out. Dr. Shertz’s class on Tactical Casualty Care could be nicknamed: Keep the blood in. Dr. Shertz is a dynamic and crisp instructor and a compelling educator. I unlearned years of Hollywood war movie myths on what a bullet does to the body and learned what really happens when a person (or gelatin) gets shot. Most importantly I learned what I could do to help ‘keep the blood in’ and how to go about that to a reasonable degree. Both the classroom and hands-on instruction were thorough and I recommend the class to anyone who wants to become more educated in tactical casualty care, or wants to possibly be of use if found in a direct or indirect threat event with casualties and minimal equipment.

Katherine P.

Took the 10 hour TCCC class at Insights last summer. I can’t wait to go back to learn more with CM.

Kevin Fillmore

Spent the last three days attending Crisis Medicine’s Advanced Tactical Casualty Care course. In a few words, an outstanding course taught by a top-tier instructor. By the third day, participants were repeatedly handling arterial hemorrhaging from realistic gunshot wounds, penetrating chest and wounds, even amputations, and eviscerations in multiple stress based scenarios with LOTS of training blood and drama-inducing injury props, all under the watchful eyes of very highly experienced special operations medics and chief instructor Dr. Mike Shertz.

NW CQC