Prolonged Field Medical Care (PFMC)

About This Course:

In the United States we are blessed with usually having timely access to hospitals and advanced life support treatment. Even in the remote areas, as long as we can establish communications and provide a location we can generally expect to get transport relatively quickly.

Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Paramedic or EMT protocols, and even Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support are highly successful in reducing mortality rates, but they all assume you are able to transport the patient to a trauma center within a relative short period of time. However, there are scenarios where that isn’t possible.

In remote survival situations where you are unable to communicate due to loss of cellular coverage, in natural disaster areas where cellular or radio transmission towers are destroyed, or in foreign countries with less professional responders you may find yourself having to care for a wounded person beyond the normal timeframe.

This course is based on the Military Special Operations Primary Field Care program for trauma patients. It introduces the students to techniques and strategies beyond TCCC to reduce mortality in the absence of appropriate medical or surgical care when in an austere and resource constrained environment.

This is NOT a wilderness first aid course

Who should take this course:

Disaster Services or Wilderness Search and Rescue Team Members

Backcountry Hikers / Campers / 4x4-ers

People who travel to non-Developed Countries

Topics Covered:

Building on mastery of tactical combat casualty care

2-72 Hour care timeline and 72+ Hour care timeline

Ruck-Truck-House medical equipment and supplies

Good-Better-Best capability preparation

Resuscitating, Treating, Monitoring

Burn Care, Crush Syndrome, Tourniquet Conversion, Would Management, Therapeutic Plans, etc

Equipment Required:

All equipment will be provided

Prerequisites:

Tactical Combat Casualty Care or Tactical Emergency Casualty Care

Price:

$295