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  • From: Marjory <forestgarden@gvtc.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Combat Medicine School
  • Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:15:34 -0500

This is a fantastic opportunity to get skills difficult to find anywhere else. So just what will you do when one of your team gets a large laceration chopping wood and the medical system is not available? We've been getting an excellent response and this will fill up long before the class starts.

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*Field / Combat Medicine School Curriculum*

*Red Rock, TX Community Center*

*December 11-14, 2008*



*Bandaging and First Aid.* Band-Aids, Telfa, 4x4s, Roller Gauze, Triangular, Kerlex, Tape, Cold Packs and Hot Packs. Trauma Dressings, Blood stoppers, Battle Dressings, Pharmacy.

*Advanced Dressings. *Gun Shot Wounds, Head Wounds, Chest Wounds, Abdominal Wounds, Lacerations, Trauma to the Limbs, Traumatic Amputations, Pharmacy

*Field Dentristry. *Replacement of lost fillings, Replacement and re-cementing of loose crowns, Lancing of abscesses, Fractured jaws. **

*Nuclear Defense Issues. *Sheltering, Shielding, Decontamination, EMP Management, Power Plants, Dirty Bombs, Shelter in Place, KI, KIO3 (thyroid blockade). What to expect for long term survival.

*Minor and Intermediate Field Surgery. *Cleansing of a laceration, Cleansing of an abrasion. Safe removal of foreign objects (Debridement). Suturing, Excisions, Drainage, Debridement (removal of dead tissue), Opening Airways (Cric), Excisions, Incisions, Removal of Projectiles, Ligatures, Pharmacy.

*Fracture Management*. Immobilization, Splinting, Moving a patient. Diagnosing, Setting, Casting, Removal of a cast. Expedient casting. Pharmacy.

*Biological*:*and Chemical Preparedness. *Anthrax, Plague, Cholera, Smallpox, Other Biological Agents, Prophylaxis and Treatment-- including Pharmacy Nerve Agents, Medical Response, Pharmacy

*Field Anesthesia*. Locals (Infusion and Topical), Nerve Blocks, Sedation, Pain Management, Others, Pharmacy.

*Alternative Medications. *Homeopathic, Naturopathic, Allopathic.

All of these are done by Corpsmen and Medics on a daily basis--in hostile conditions--without access to a hospital. While this course will not make you a Corpsman or Medic, it will give you some experience in how to -- at the very least -- help a Doctor should the medical system go down.

Cost $425 per person. $800 per couple. $300 for 12-17 year olds. Call 740 783 8009, or 830 839 4077. Registration forms online at www.medicalcorps.com.





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