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Medical Response in Hostile Environments
Advanced 4-Day Class
Q: Can I really take this class with little experience?
A: The short answer is yes! The long answer Q&A is here.
 Advanced Field Surgery
Suturing and Surgery: Cleansing of a laceration, Safe removal of foreign objects. Suturing, Excisions, Drainage, Debridement (removal of dead tissue), Opening Airways (Cric), Excisions, Incisions, Removal of Projectiles, Ligatures, Pharmacy.
The Student WILL: Use surgical instruments to "reshape" a laceration for suturing. Suture a laceration. Extract a projectile (a real bullet) from a patient with instruments. Make incisions with surgical instruments such as a scalpel and surgical scissors. With a syringe and lidocaine, the student will use locals to numb the laceration. The student will give Intramuscular (IM) injections.
Bandages and Dressings
Dressings: Band-Aids, Telfa, 4x4s, Roller Gauze, Triangular, Kerlex, Tape, Cold Packs and Hot Packs. Trauma Dressings, Battle Dressings, Pharmacy.
Advanced Bandaging: Gun Shot Wounds, Head Wounds, Chest Wounds, Abdominal Wounds, Lacerations, Trauma to the Limbs, Traumatic Amputations, Pharmacy.
The Student WILL: Apply specific dressings and bandages such as Kerlix, medicated 4x4s, dressings to the limbs and fingers, safely apply dressings to a severely damage head, eyes and the neck. The student will apply battle dressings, bandages for sucking chest wounds and other life endangering conditions
Fractures
Fracture Management: (Casting!) Immobilization, Splinting, Moving a patient. Diagnosing, Setting, Casting, Removal of a cast. Expedient casting. We have expanded our casting section to include casts using both plaster as well as fiberglass. Everyone will apply at least 2 casts.
The Student WILL: Professionally apply a plaster cast to the forearm. Time permitting some students may apply a short leg plaster cast. The student then will use fiberglass for casting a short arm cast.
Pain Management and Anesthesia
Anesthesia: Locals (Infusion and Topical), Sedation, Pain Management, Pharmacy.
The Student WILL: draw up a syringe of fluid and inject it around a wound to numb it before suturing or minor surgery.
Sterile Technique
Masking and Gowning and Gloving: Working in sterile conditions. Also, providing a sterile field upon which to perform surgery such as suturing and minor surgery.
The Student WILL: Successfully don sterile surgical gown, sterile surgical glove and surgical mask exactly that way it should be done.
Dental
Field Dentistry :
Replacement of lost fillings, replacement and recementing of lose crowns, Lancing of abscesses, Fractured jaws.
EMP
Electromagnetic Pulse: EMP always accompanies a nuclear explosion. It is the end of comfortable life as we know it. There will be no more electricity unless you know how to protect your electrical devises.
Nuclear
Nuclear Defense Issues: What to expect in the way of a strike (Power Plants, Dirty Bombs, Nuclear Bombs, Thermonuclear Bombs, Sheltering, Shielding, Decontamination, Barrier garments such as expedient suiting and masking.
Biological
Biological Preparedness: Anthrax, Plague, Cholera, Smallpox, Other Biological Agents, Prophylaxis and Treatment-- including Pharmacy,
Chemical
Chemical Response: Dealing with and living through chemical weapons such as Nerve Agents, Medical Response, Pharmacy.
Pharmacy
Alternative and Conventional Medications: Homeopathic, Naturopathic, Allopathic. pain medications, blood pressure medications, antibiotics and other.
Other:
Birth, Death, Alternative energy, Sanitation, Water purification.
Tuition:
Tuition is $435.00 everything except food and lodging included.
$425.00 per person / per couple
$400.00 14 years to 17 years
Family members of active duty military (Dependents) -- CALL 740 - 783 - 8009
To register for the Ohio class: www.medicalcorps.org/registration-form.htm
A deposit of $150.00 should accompany the registration form.
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Greetings from
Medical Corps
For those of you who visited the class page before, you will notice that we have expanded the class to include some advanced technique.
For those of you who have little or no emergency medicine under your belt, the class will still be taught in such a way that you will learn the material. It's a lot of hands-on and we train many people who start from a bare working knowledge.
The advanced technique is actually a lot of fun. For instance we teach you basic suturing on Day 1. After that has rested for the night we turn you loose in the afternoon of Day 2 with some minor surgery and extraction of bullets and other fun problems. There plenty of time and everyone can work at their own pace.
We will be using both plaster for rolling a cast and then graduate to fiberglass. Some of the students even wear their cast home-why, we don't know.
All the subjects will be fun. See you at class!
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Curriculum
