Course Content

• Introduction to Major Incident Trauma
  • Course introduction
  • Manchester Arena Bombing
• Keeping Safe
  • The Hazards that Pose a Risk to Personal Safety
  • Responsibilities of the First Responder
  • Dynamic Risk Assessing
  • PPE Overview
  • Selecting the Correct PPE in Relation to the Incident
  • Types of Infection that May be Encountered
  • Methods of Spread or Mode of Transmission of Infection
  • The Chain of Infection
  • Using gloves
  • Face and Eye Protection
  • Full Body Suit
  • Actions to Withdraw From an Incident
  • Hazardous Waste Disposal
  • citizenAID pocket guide
  • Emergency drag stretcher
• Triage and the EMS
  • EMS Integration
  • DRCA(c)BCDE
  • METHANE Reporting - Scene Management
  • Mechanism of Injury
  • The Ten Second Triage Tool
  • Using The Ten Second Triage Tool
  • Prioritising Casualty Management and Assessing the Number of Casualties
  • ASHICE
  • SBAR
  • Additional Resources at the Scene
• Types of Catastrophic Injury
  • Serious Bleeding
  • Excessive Bleeding Control
  • Blood Loss - A Practical Demonstration
  • Prioritising first aid
  • Embedded Objects
  • Knife Wounds
  • Amputation Treatment
  • Blast Injuries
  • Chest Injuries
  • Abdominal Injuries
  • Trauma and Standard Dressings
  • Using trauma dressings
• Catastrophic Bleeding Management
  • Hemostatic Dressing or Tourniquet?
  • Tourniquets and Where to Use Them
  • RapidStop Tourniquet
  • CAT Tourniquets
  • SOFT-T tourniquet
  • STAT Tourniquets
  • Improvised Tourniquets
  • citizenAID Tourni-Key Plus tourniquet
  • Damage caused by tourniquets
  • When Tourniquets Don't Work - Applying a Second
  • Hemostatic Dressings
  • What is Woundclot?
  • Woundclot trauma gauze
  • How Woundclot Works to Halt Severe Bleeding
  • Woundclot and knife injuries
  • Woundclot and large areas
  • Packing a Wound with Celox Z Fold Hemostatic Dressing
  • Celox A
  • Celox Granules
  • Monitoring a Patient
  • Fox chest seals
• Shock and Continued Care
  • The Recovery Position
  • Shock
• Summary to Major Incident Trauma
  • Patient Handover
  • Post Traumatic Stress
  • Course Summary