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This three-day, 24-hour program is designed to train current or prospective SWAT Medics/Tactical Emergency Services (TEMS) technicians with the knowledge and ability to provide lifesaving and sustaining immediate trauma care techniques and tools in support of police SWAT operations. The course is open to Paramedics, EMTs (B) and Law Enforcement officers.
This dynamic course will provide students with the knowledge to understand tactical situations and to apply life-saving strategies to traumatic injuries which they may encounter as the primary medical technicians on SWAT teams or other tactical units. Students will learn and practice the proper use and limitations of field expedient trauma equipment and skills to include tourniquets, pressure dressings, occlusive dressings, combat gauze, wound packing, pressure points, airway management, etc. Students will also learn how to use improvised tools and materials to treat traumatic injuries when commercial equipment is not available.
Students will be guided through tactical decision-making processes, conducting effective triage of injured victims and the specific intervention methods to apply based on an understanding of the different zones of operation within tactical incidents. Students will then be given opportunities to assess their tactical decision-making processes and the proper use of medical interventions within various scenario-based training modules.
Required Equipment:
- Notebook and pen
- Helmet
- Tactical vest
- Tactical belt
- Ballistic eyewear
- Med bag (we will provide training equipment but students may want to their own setup)
- Rifle and pistol (if allowed by your agency)