Training Schedule

Ditch Medicine Level 1

• Course Length: 8 hours
• Time: 9AM to 5PM
• Place: Range 360 – Click for Map
• Prerequisites: None

Description:

When the equipment is low and the threat is high, “ditch medicine” is what you do when there’s no other choice and the stakes are life and death.

Utilizing concepts based on emergency medical field procedures currently in use and taught by US Navy corpsman and US Army medics, and developed in coordination with medical professionals, this class gives you simple concepts and easy-to-remember tasks using readily-available supplies that can save the life of a gunshot-, stabbing-, or accident victim. 

These are simply must-know skills if there is any chance you could find yourself or someone you love in a self-defense scenario, “active killer” attack, car wreck, violent civil unrest, or some other kind of mass casualty critical incident due to accidents, terrorism, or natural disasters.

This course was built and is used by a private security contractor to equip civilian protection teams and solo agents to have legitimate medical response plans for dynamic critical incidents so they can minimize additional casualties and provide high quality life-saving interventions in the shortest amount of time possible to the wounded in truly unthinkable circumstances.

The concepts and techniques taught and practiced will work for you and your team or family too.

You will Learn and Practice:

• How to properly and quickly apply a tourniquet to yourself and others for extremity bleeding.
• How to properly use pressure dressings, wound-packing, and hemostatic gauze for junctional bleeding injuries.
• How to help prevent or relieve tension pneumothorax due to penetrating wounds to the chest or abdomen.
• How to manage the airway of a critically wounded person
• Care-Under-Fire Treatments of Critical Injuries
• “Tactical Field Care” Treatments of Critical Injuries
• Triage Concepts for mass casualty incidents
• Live-Fire Tissue Testing and Analysis.

Please note that this course is informational in nature and is not intended to certify the student as a healthcare provider in any way.

• Required Equipment:
• Pen
• Notepad,
• Bug spray
• Snacks, Lunch, Drinks, Medicines, etc.
• If you have a relevant medical kit of any kind, bring it along.
• Please be prepared to get theatrical blood on your clothing if you participate in (some of) the exercises. Please don’t wear your Sunday’s Best.
• You may bring a firearm and your favorite self-defense ammunition if you’d like. We might have a chance to test it on tissue, but no guarantees. Leave firearms in your car until advised by your instructor.