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Day 3
The program resumes with Tactical Deployment of Less Lethal Weapons. Students learn the capabilities, limitations and the injury patterns associated with their use. Advanced Airway Management is next with didactic material in the classroom followed by a three hour Airway Management Workshop. Having the skills to establish an airway under austere conditions is paramount. Students receive in depth hands on training in the skills needed for advanced airway management skills and techniques in the tactical environment.
Students have the opportunity to rotate skills stations and practice surgical airway techniques using swine tracheas and become familiar with other options including retrograde intubation, fiber optic, ViewMax and orotracheal intubation techniques. The Combitube, Lighted Stylet, Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA), King and Intubating LMA are also demonstrated and practiced. The program resumes in the afternoon on Day 3 to allow time for nightfall with preparations for low light and night operations later in the evening.
As nightfall begins the students suit up for the Low Light Tactics and Team Movement training. For the next four hours students participate in multiple Tactical Medical Scenarios under low light and conditions of darkness. Many tactical operations occur at night and the tactical medical provider must develop the skills to provide medical assessment and care under darkness and low light stressful conditions.
To increase the realism of point of contact wounding, Module B incorporates the use of SKEDCO's Field Expedient Bleeding Simulation System (FEBSS), allowing students to experience lifelike external hemorrhage on live and mannequin simulated casualties. The FEBSS is a proven tool used by U.S. Army Combat Medics and Navy Corpsmen enhancing muscle memory in hemorrhage control skills unmatched by any other technique or training system. Care under fire training sustains an intensified realism as wounds cease to bleed upon correct treatments including pressure dressing application, wound packing, and tourniquet application.
Day 4
The entire morning of Day 4 consists of Advanced MP5 Submachine Gun Tactical field exercises. Here students gain more experience using the Tactical Pistol and the MP5 Submachine Gun through extensive field exercises.
Police tactical teams are likely to be one of the first law-enforcement units responding to a Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) event. The afternoon of day 4 begins with classroom material addressing weapons of mass destruction specifically Chemical Weapons and Nerve Agents as well as Nuclear & Radiation Injuries.
The Tactical Medicine Module B Course does not focus on mass casualty management but instead addresses those important WMD issues specific to law enforcement tactical operations. Special operations teams are sometimes deployed in remote areas and the teams are at risk for Environmental Injuries. The remainder of the afternoon is devoted to the many issues surrounding Environmental Injuries in the tactical environment and how to avoid, prevent, and effectively treat these types of injuries.
Upon completion of the day's activities, the ISTM faculty treat the students to the traditional class dinner.
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