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
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.