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Tactical/Operational Medicine
This course will be modified to the level of expertise in the audience and
can be adapted in the classroom for multiple levels of experience and
understanding.
Training Goals and Objectives
Executive Protection and PSD responsibilities warrant awareness of health
related risk factors that can endanger the individual and complicate the
intent of the mission. This course is designed to train security personnel
to evaluate injury, provide preliminary supportive care, and preempt medical
problems via awareness and medical resource management.
Training Audience, Format and Content
This is a skill development course designed for the armed professional
currently engaged in tactical operations or initiating a tactical program,
at the law enforcement or military level.
This course is most successful when taught and received with audiences of 25
officers or fewer, but has been given in groups of 50 or more with
successful reviews. The smaller groups enable officers to have more direct
dialog & contact with the instructors and the other students.
This course is taught via lecture, group problem assessment, scenarios, and
practical skill set acquisition. Material is referenced and reviewed by
certified physicians who are experts in their respective medical fields.
The course is designed in a 1 day session involving the step by step method
for first aid. The course is generally designed to run from 0800 to 1800
hours daily, but can be manipulated for evenings and extended days as
needed.
Daily content and course schedule/agenda:
Trauma: Projectile/Blunt/Explosive
• Bandages
• Tourniquets
• Combat Casualty Care
• Death Modalities
Medical Threat Assessment
• Hospital Evaluation Trauma Levels
• Surgery Center Capabilities
• Safe Houses and other options
Environmental Injury Heat/Cold
• Practical Concepts for Evaluation and Aid
• Training and Changes in Performance Capability
Toxins/Biohazards
• Ricin: Case Study
• Cyanide
Medical Basis for Combative Performance Training
• Strength Training
• Hand Injury prevention and implication: Case Study
International Infectious Diseases
• Hepatitis/HIV/Tuberculosis
• Leprosy/Water Pathogens
• Viruses
Bio-Weapons: Uncommon Sense in a World of Panic
• Weather
• Practical Solutions
• Realities
There are no pre-requisites to this course.
Student Evaluation
The evaluation process will consist of class participation and active
involvement in class exercises.
Limitations / Special Needs: None
Any audio/visual or POSTC/Academy facility or staff needs will be addressed
on a case-by-case basis, but might include the use of an electronic
projection unit, VCR, audio or marker board materials.
Student Materials
Depending on student understanding, a wide range of video, audio and
PowerPoint presentations will be used in the training session, and the
instructors will come prepared with everything they will need to make this
an informative, fast-paced learning experience. The materials will range
from commercially driven video, personal case studies of the instructors,
and detailed hands on training exercises. Detailed lesson plans are
available as needed, and copies of the course PowerPoint presentations will
be available to those in attendance. Due to publishing restrictions, these
training materials are not enclosed for a review!
Required Equipment
• TBD
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