Operational First Responder (OFR)

This intensive training course will enhance existing skills for the operational medic deployed within a military of tactical law enforcement setting. The course is aimed to expose the medic/A-EMT to multiple repetitions in the core skillsets of hemorrage control, basic/advanced airway management, needle decompression, chest tube placement/aftercare*, vascular access including IO, medication administration / mechanism of action, and management of hypothermia in an austere environment. Finally, our cadre will dive deeply into the newest science in field blood replacement through hands on labs in the classroom. Each trainee will complete field expedient blood type testing, and the course will detail the process of initiating a walking blood bank, and when it is appropriate to use this process. Finally, we examine when it would be operationally inappropriate to initiate blood replacement in a field setting, and go into the operational/environmental constraints that may preclude this from being the most prudent course of action.
The "OFR" training course will be delivered over four days, two in a didactic setting with break out skills stations which will enforce lessons taught in the classroom. This will be followed by two intensive days with our Human Analog Simulation Model (HASM), which will begin with tabletop skills stations and culminate with full treatment scenarios encompassing the MARCH algorithm. The final day of training will span the 17 acre facility, and includes three immersive scenarios tailored to your unit needs. We specialize in operational battlefield effects, tactical scenarios which become complicated based on team decisions, and prolonged casualty care scenarios which evolve as your team moves through the training day.
This training course is eligible for AMA/AOA Category 1 continuing medical education credit for all licensed medical professionals.