I was able to attend a seminar on trauma care hosted by my instructors Guro's Bob Shin and Victor Wong. We didn't have a lot of people come out, but I think that benefitted the group. I liked the video's and pictures that went along with the lecture. It made it more dramatic and got the point across.
The person who presented this information has plenty of experience. Chris Van Houten is a National Registered Critical Care Paramedic with over 20 years of EMS experience in NYC. Nationally, he is the Region One Faculty for the Tactical Combat Casualty Care program which is accredited by the American College of Surgeons. He delivers medical training to Local and Federal High Risk Law Enforcement teams, members of every branch of the US Armed Forces and develops custom tactical medical programs for multiple federal agencies.
A few pointers that I got out the seminar were learning about our goals in a location where violence is still going on or had happened. First, complete the mission or the neutralizing the threat. Next, treat the casualty. and then prevent additional casualties by assessing other risk.
We also learned about the importance of turniquet's. It's used when massive bleeding occurs from one of the limbs because of trauma like a gunshot wound or a stab/slash of an artery.
I liked the seminar, because we had a scenario that we went through at the end. We had to go in and save two down victims. We had to assess, treat, and then evacuate. I wish we had more time to go through another scenario. Hopefully next time we can get more scenarios to try.
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