This medical training course has been developed specifically by Special Forces Field Medics to go above and beyond the existing MIRA courses. This course provides Close Protection practitioners and Team Medics, who already have experience in Pre-Hospital Care, with the added skills and knowledge to be able to deal with casualties in remote environments and hostile regions worldwide. The course focuses on stabilisation of the injured through to the knowledge and skills required for prolonged field care. This course is designed by professionals for professionals and promises a unique experience in trauma management that is unrivalled in the industry today. Couse price does not include accommodation. £750.
Topics covered on the course are:
Basic cell, tissue, organs and systems
Anatomy & Physiology
Scene approach and assessment
Mechanism of injury
Primary and secondary survey
Catastrophic haemorrhage
Airway
Surgical Cricothyroidotomy
Breathing (asthma and oxygen therapy)
Chest needle decompression
Circulation and shock
Burns
IV cannulation and fluid resuscitation
IO access
Head and brain injury
Pain relief
Traumatic musculoskeletal conditions
Prolonged field care
Spinal injury and immobilisation
Entrapment and extrication
Mass casualties
Emotional care
History taking primary healthcare
Toxicology
Life threatening medical conditions
The heart
Advanced life support and defib
Resuscitation and care of the child
Pregnancy and childbirth
Musculoskeletal injuries
Thermal injury heat & cold
Tropical medicine
Malarial awareness
Introduction to common antibiotics
Introduction to suturing
Altitude illness
Dive medicine