Critical Care First Aid

Traditional first aid classes deliver instruction for providing comfort and care for a large array of injuries and illnesses, but the material can be vast and overwhelming. Tactical medical courses often focus on care in the most extreme or violent scenarios and can be intimidating to the general public. The average active bystander, someone that is willing to step forward in a crisis and render aid, needs only a few, highly effective skills and pieces of equipment to preserve life and improving long term patient outcomes until professional EMS can arrive. Accessible to all experience and comfort levels, less skills to learn, easier to train and become proficient, which means more likely to be performed in stressful conditions. In response to an increasing number of Mass Care Incidents (MCI) in the United States, FEMA has stated that there is a nationwide gap in prehospital trauma care and addressing this gap cannot fall solely on the shoulders of licensed EMS. In order to optimize care rendered prior to the arrival of EMS and reduce the number of deaths from survivable injuries, the population at large must be prepared to render aid. The full CCFA course delivers modules of Emergency Medical Training to civilians who wish to improve their personal skill sets in caring for life threatening emergent illnesses and injuries such as cardiac events and massive bleeding, that, without immediate care, can lead to death, but are otherwise survivable. The recommended equipment and skill sets are adaptable and can be used in a variety of critical care situations. The same skill set used to respond to an MCI such as a natural disaster, explosion, or a building collapse can be applied just as easily to a single injured patient in a remote recreation setting, an MVA, or a fall from a ladder. The mission is to provide confidence in the medical management of injuries at or near the site of wounding, with minimal risk to the care giver and maximum benefit to the patient