Recommendation for a Group Trauma First Aid Class? (SoMD/DC area)

[Derwood]

I'm a member of a 50-person hunting/fishing/shooting club and am looking to schedule a training class on trauma/first aid. I've reached out to a few national organizations but would appreciate recommendations from anyone here who has had a good experience with a local instructor.

I'm looking for something beyond the basic First Aid course taught by the Red Cross. I want the course do include stabilizing a patient in a serious trauma event, and using equipment like a tourniquet, packing wounds, etc. to address massive bleeding or other extreme injuries, since our location is fairly remote. I recently took the Mountain Man Medical (affiliated with concealed carry association) course online (and highly recommend it) https://www.mountainmanmedical.com/trauma-medicine-training/ I contacted them but don't think they can offer anything locally.

Now I'm looking for one like this where we can get an instructor to visit us in-person. Our club is located in St. Mary's County and most of us live in the DC area and of course we will pay a fair rate to the instructor. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

 

[slsc98]

… I'm looking for something beyond the basic …since our location is fairly remote. …

Kudos to you. Would that we could, everyone should so, “Be Prepared.”

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@Derwood - check your PM Inbox; I’ve sent you a contact for someone You can reach out to at Sanners Lake Sportsman's Club and inquire who was (still is?) coordinating their “Stop The Bleed” courses …

I have ZERO idea as to what the “up-to-the-minute” status of the SLSC Stop The Bleed class program is but, here is some general info on it (the STB program, not SLSC specific(:


STOP THE BLEED PROGRAM

STOP THE BLEED is the result of a collaborative effort led by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma to bring knowledge of bleeding control to the public.


Lessons learned from the military

There are multiple ways to control bleeding in an emergency, including applying direct pressure, packing the wound with bleeding control (hemostatic) gauze, and applying a tourniquet. However, it is only recently that tourniquets have been re-embraced for their lifesaving potential. After tourniquets and tourniquet training were widely adopted by the military, their use during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts was reviewed in 2012 and a clear survival benefit was identified. This data was carefully evaluated and then included in the Tactical Combat Casualty Care standards for training and military field care. A follow-up study in 2014 showed similar benefits related to tourniquet use amongst civilians and further introduced direct pressure and wound packing to the list of simple but effective skills that could be used to control active bleeding in an emergency situation. When these efforts were looked at collectively, the life-saving potential of early bleeding control became clear. It also became clear that time was a critical factor and outcomes were directly related to how quickly bleeding control was achieved. These findings would ultimately help establish the bystander as playing a critical role in saving lives due to severe bleeding. Efforts to train bystanders soon began in earnest.


Developing a bleeding control curriculum

Peter T. Pons, MD, FACEP, an emergency physician in Denver is credited with the initial idea to develop a curriculum focused on bleeding control that was similar to how cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prepared bystanders for a cardiac emergency. Working with others, they developed a course that addressed this need. Early versions were targeted toward non-medically trained law enforcement officers, but it soon became apparent that this content could also be made available to the general public. These ideas were the genesis of what became known as the Bleeding Control Basic course, which was released to the public in 2014 and forms the foundation of today’s STOP THE BLEED course.


Out of great tragedy, comes a life-saving response

The evolution of the STOP THE BLEED® program was also influenced by world events. In 2012, 20 children and eight adults were casualties from a tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. A concerned local trauma surgeon, Lenworth M. Jacobs, Jr., MD who was the Chair of the Connecticut State Committee on Trauma convened a panel of national experts to evaluate the response to such emergencies. The group met several times and developed expert recommendations on how to improve survival for people with severe bleeding. Because two of these early meetings were held in Hartford, their recommendations became known as the Hartford Consensus.


Establishing STOP THE BLEED® as a national public awareness campaign

From the Hartford Consensus, a national emergency response goal emerged to improve victim survival following mass shootings and other intentional acts of mass violence by empowering trained bystanders to take life-saving action if quickly needed—regardless of the situation or cause of severe bleeding. STOP THE BLEED, a national public awareness campaign, was launched shortly thereafter in October of 2015 by the White House, with a call to action to begin training more people to become immediate responders until professional help arrives. Since then, the STOP THE BLEED program has continued to grow as we continue to witness or experience unexpected violence and injuries in our daily lives—on the highway, in the workplace, at schools, and in other public places where we should be able to gather with an expectation of safety. The American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma first publicly introduced bleeding control training courses for its members in October 2016, and since then thousands of other medical professionals have trained to become course instructors. Today, those instructors are focused on training people in all walks of life to become immediate responders through the STOP THE BLEED course.

 

[slsc98]

Looks like 5 upcoming in MD albeit, not close to DC line :-(

https://cms.bleedingcontrol.org/Class/Search

 

[SESH1224]

I'm a member of a 50-person hunting/fishing/shooting club and am looking to schedule a training class on trauma/first aid. I've reached out to a few national organizations but would appreciate recommendations from anyone here who has had a good experience with a local instructor.

I'm looking for something beyond the basic First Aid course taught by the Red Cross. I want the course do include stabilizing a patient in a serious trauma event, and using equipment like a tourniquet, packing wounds, etc. to address massive bleeding or other extreme injuries, since our location is fairly remote. I recently took the Mountain Man Medical (affiliated with concealed carry association) course online (and highly recommend it) https://www.mountainmanmedical.com/trauma-medicine-training/ I contacted them but don't think they can offer anything locally.

Now I'm looking for one like this where we can get an instructor to visit us in-person. Our club is located in St. Mary's County and most of us live in the DC area and of course we will pay a fair rate to the instructor. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Please call me at 4102413270. My name is Scott from Masada Tactical. I run advanced gunshot wound class, and also include stop the bleed and basic CPR and first aid. I ran this class at the Nra headquarters range while they were open multiple times a year for all of their safety officer’s.

 

[SESH1224]

pictures from previous classes. also can offer TECC (Tactical Emergency Combat Care).

 

[RangerWillrett]

Reach out to Paramount Tactical Solutions. They do mobile classes.

 

[BUffaloSocks]

Stop the Bleed - Bleeding Control Basics

Stop the Bleed empowers the general public to make a difference in a life-threatening emergency by teaching them the basics.

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Winfield Vol Fire is doing a FREE Stop the Bleed class on Feb 19. Took their First Aid/CPR/AED course earlier this year and they were fantastic. Even stayed an extra hour and gave me some additional information specific for shooting injuries.

 

[outrider58]

Looks like 5 upcoming in MD albeit, not close to DC line :-(

https://cms.bleedingcontrol.org/Class/Search

We've got one coming up next month at IWLA WAC of Damascus. I take the class every year( cuz my brain is shot). It's an excellent course.

 

[slsc98]

I'm looking for something beyond the basic First Aid course … include stabilizing a patient in a serious trauma event, and using equipment like a tourniquet, packing wounds, etc. to address massive bleeding or other extreme injuries, since our location is fairly remote. I recently took the Mountain Man Medical (affiliated with concealed carry association) course online (and highly recommend it) https://www.mountainmanmedical.com/trauma-medicine-training/ I contacted them but don't think they can offer anything locally.

Now I'm looking for one like this where we can get an instructor to visit us in-person. Our club is located in St. Mary's County and most of us live in the DC area and of course we will pay a fair rate to the instructor. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

@Derwood , check your PM - I forwarded you info w contact for the February ‘23 Stop the Bleed class at Sanners Lake Sptsmns Club - gitchyewsum!

 

[hobiecat590]

Sanners Lake Sportsman Club aka SLSC has a Stop The Bleed Class on 2/8. It is a great class open to the public.

 

[josnyder]

Stop the Bleed - Bleeding Control Basics

Stop the Bleed empowers the general public to make a difference in a life-threatening emergency by teaching them the basics.

www.eventbrite.com

Winfield Vol Fire is doing a FREE Stop the Bleed class on Feb 19. Took their First Aid/CPR/AED course earlier this year and they were fantastic. Even stayed an extra hour and gave me some additional information specific for shooting injuries.

Great to know. I will keep my eye out for the next one. Glad you have this training. Hopefully it won't come in handy anytime soon.