permaculture

[Marjory <forestgarden@gvtc.com>]

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.