Length: 3 Days (24 Hours)
Designed For: Law Enforcement Officers
Prerequisites: None.
Description: The training focuses on building each officer's tactical medical skills through classroom presentation, skill demonstrations, hands-on skill practice, field exercises, and direct instructor feedback. By incorporating the principles of the Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course and applicable medical skills, civilian law enforcement officers will greatly enhance their ability to save lives.
Course Objectives:
Direct Threat Care – Hot Zone
- Mitigate the threat
- Move the wounded to cover or an area of relative safety
- Perform various rescue and patient movement techniques
- Manage massive hemorrhage
- Proper rapid positional airway management
Indirect Threat Care – Warm Zone
- MARCHE Treatment Algorithm
- Massive Hemorrhage
- Airway
- Respirations
- Circulation
- Hypothermia & Head Injuries
- Everything else
Evacuation Care – Cold Zone
- The injured are being moved to higher care or a treatment facility
- Reassessments and continued hypothermia management
**If you request to host this course at your agency, the following are required for hosting:
- buildings that facilitate the use of simunition guns
- 5-10 role players for duration of course
- 1-2 vehicles for scenario purposes (optional)
Taught by certified members of the Counterdrug Program