Police Medic Recertification Course (2-Day)
ST/OPS Tactical Training Canada develops and delivers world class medical programmes. All our courses adhere to the recommended guidelines laid out by the Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (Co-TECC) and the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (Co-TCCC). In addition, your members will benefit from lessons learned from our military experience and how to apply them to the civilian world of tactical medicine.
This is a 16-hour recertification course. It ensures your members are current, proficient, and up-to-date on all the best practices as recommended by the CoTCCC and CoTECC. The course is focused on hands-on refresher and reality-based assessment with your member’s proper medical gear. All exams and marking criteria for scenarios are individualized to test your members against your organization’s medical protocols.
Pre-requisites:
- Must be a qualified Police Medic
The Recertification consists of the following:
- Threshold knowledge exam
- Skill stations covering
- Major haemorrhage, tourniquets, wound packing and bandaging
- Airway Management, manual maneuvers, NPA, OPA, Supraglottic and surgical airway
- Respiratory management, chest seals, burping and needle thoracotomy
- Circulation and fluid resuscitation
- Hypothermia prevention
- Everything else, deadly triad, medications used in trauma
- Lifts, drags, carries and rapid vehicle extraction
- Patient packaging and preparing for transport
- 1/2 Full day of assessment scenarios that are realistic and challenging from point of injury to handover to EMS. All scenarios make use of medically trained role players, our patented human worn devices, atmospherics and special effects.
- Final exam
All students will receive an individual course certificate highlighting performance and skills refreshed for your records.
The end result of this course is personnel who are current and capable of performing life-saving medical interventions compliant with your organization’s medical protocols.
