Emergency Bleeding Control
- Description
- Course Contents
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Massive external bleeding is one of the most common causes of preventable traumatic death. This video series is a comprehensive series of videos in emergency first line hemorrhage control. This course is designed for everyone, at every level of care provider from first-aiders to physicians. In an easy to understand delivery, this course dives deep into massive hemorrhage and how to effectively control it, with and without modern hemorrhage control tools.
The course includes an overview of circulatory anatomy and physiology, direct and indirect pressure, wound packing, hemostatic dressings, and a comprehensive section on limb tourniquets.
Total time of all videos: 02:21:52
Access to the course is for 3 years from the course start date.
Prerequisites
Highly Recommended (critical to understanding content):
- Legal Aspects of Tactical Medicine
- Understanding Trauma
- One of the following:
a. TTC Basic Provider Casualty Approach
b. TTC Advanced Provider Casualty Approach
c. FTC Basic Provider Casualty Approach
d. FTC Advanced Provider Casualty Approach
Recommended (may clarify content):
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Course Content Includes:
- Basic Circulation Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathophysiology
- Principles of Massive Hemorrhage Management
- Direct and Indirect Pressure
- Wound Packing
- Bandaging
- Tourniquet Principals
- Tourniquet Placement and Tightening
- Tourniquet Duration and Limb Temperature
- Tourniquet Documentation
- Training with tourniquets
- Types of Tourniquets
- Improvised Tourniquets
- Tourniquet Release and Removal
- Conclusion