I'm dedicating a year to study this but I got the basics down. It's honestly not that hard but obviously I will have to practice under simulations. I'm not planning on going to medical school for this but this is just a thread I'm posting on to bat around ideas. Hopefully there are some people here that will take initiative to learn even just basic first aid.
So yesterday I took apart my trauma kit and watched the SkinnyMedic videos.
Learned things like MARCH and SALT. So how to assess a patient, treat massive casualties, apply a tourniquet, and handle active shooter threats.
I'm still digesting the TCCC manuals.
This is on the horizon for more advanced materials.
https://courses.ccme.org/course/embootcamp (roughly $500 for the self study course).
Anybody have suggestions for practicing to keep the lessons fresh? I come from a culinary background so what I can do is pretend like a dead animal is a human and run about 50 practice scenarios to refresh my training. So for example, I'll pretend the dead pig in front of me needs CPR so I will remind myself how to apply CPR. Or it has a broken foot and I will apply xyz treatment to it.
So yesterday I took apart my trauma kit and watched the SkinnyMedic videos.
Learned things like MARCH and SALT. So how to assess a patient, treat massive casualties, apply a tourniquet, and handle active shooter threats.
I'm still digesting the TCCC manuals.
This is on the horizon for more advanced materials.
https://courses.ccme.org/course/embootcamp (roughly $500 for the self study course).
Anybody have suggestions for practicing to keep the lessons fresh? I come from a culinary background so what I can do is pretend like a dead animal is a human and run about 50 practice scenarios to refresh my training. So for example, I'll pretend the dead pig in front of me needs CPR so I will remind myself how to apply CPR. Or it has a broken foot and I will apply xyz treatment to it.