Course Description: This course is designed to teach Law Enforcement Officers and other first responders how to treat and manage trauma patients in a civilian tactical environment. Utilizing a mix of classroom presentation and hands-on skills training, attendees will learn how to provide life-sustaining treatments in threatening conditions. Instructors will leverage overseas and domestic military experiences in order to illustrate and convey lessons learned in hostile situations. This course requires a 16-hour (2-day) commitment from students and provides more in depth modules and hands-on skills practice than is offered in the Basic Tactical Medicine course. The second day includes evaluated scenarios that require students to practice tactics as well as life-saving treatment for casualties. Upon course completion, students will be able to identify and treat the leading causes of preventable death in a multi-phase tactical environment.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 2 Days / 16 Hours

Tactical Medicine for Law Enforcement has approximately a 50/50 split of slide-based lecture and hands-on training (e.g., use of improvised and commercial tourniquets, simulated blood, and casualty/treatment scenarios). Students are encouraged to bring their field uniforms/kit on the second day of class. Please have a plan to stow your firearm and ammunition because we will not be using live firearms in scenarios. You’re encouraged to bring dummy/blue guns for scenarios. Students will also rotate through being the casualty/role player providing other students an opportunity to render aid to a casualty. To make the trauma scenarios as real as possible, we encourage students to bring additional clothing that would be used as cut away clothing to add a realistic element of having to cut clothes while rendering aid.