You carry a firearm professionally or personally to provide a layer of safety.
If you’re around firearms long enough, you will see someone get shot; whether a negligent discharge or a use of force.
Tactical Casualty Care is the minimum level of tactical medical training anyone who is around firearms,
professionally or personally, should take. The 7.5-hour course focuses primarily on the Care Under Fire or Direct Threat phase of an event, where both the responder and the injured are still in a dynamic, threatening environment. Learn how to quickly evaluate the injured, focus on what’s most important, manage massive hemorrhage, and stop preventable death with minimal equipment.
In an active violent incident, First Responders will arrive in 4-10 minutes after the first 911 call. Recent events show us how much can go wrong in that time period.
Injured can bleed to death from massive hemorrhage in less than five minutes.
How far away is EMS? If medical care arrives after that time, you will watch your loved one, your hunting buddy, or your neighbor bleed to death. You don’t have to. Using minimal equipment and straightforward techniques, you can be the help before help arrives to provide hemorrhage control, address chest injuries, and avoid increased mortality from hypothermia.
In 2015, the White House launched a campaign to encourage every American to obtain life-saving training in hemorrhage control: Stop the Bleed. This training is an hour or two long and may help some casualties. Communities with more citizens who are trained to help in an emergency are more resilient. By carrying a firearm, you’ve already made the decision to be part of the solution. Medical training of these skills diversifies your effectiveness and makes you more versatile.
Crisis Medicine provides a 7.5-hour online course that teaches you more than just tourniquet training for those who want a more robust skill set than an hour or two class. You’ll learn what to do, how to do it, and how best to address many of these critical injuries with minimal equipment, while the event is ongoing, and when the casualty will most need your help.
Crisis Medicine offers you classes taught by a former Army Special Forces Medic who has been a practicing, board-certified emergency medicine physician for twenty years. You’ll learn the science behind the techniques so you really understand what needs to be done and can do it under stress, as well as the tactics to keep you safe while you treat casualties. Learn the realities of what gunshot wounds do in the body and to the body, and debunk many common myths and urban legends.
You’ll watch dynamic lectures based on published medical literature, interwoven with photographs, real-world events from World War II through the Global War on Terror and domestic events. Learn the science and learn to separate the bunk behind wound ballistics from the science. You’ll then have the opportunity to see hands-on demonstrations of the techniques, with step by step instructions, close-ups of technique, and big picture considerations. Lastly, you’ll have the opportunity to see all the skills put together in scenarios directly applicable to your everyday life.