The Rescue Task Force Concept & Tactical Trauma Care Manual: For First Responders

This is the manual for the live Rescue Task Force & Tactical Trauma Care course for first Responders. Tactics, Indirect and Direct Threat care has been updated May 2022 to reflect the most current guidelines. In it you will learn:-Operational principals of a Rescue Task Force and the importance of establishing Unified Command.-Rescue Task Force is a coordinated response by first responders that is controlled and coordinated by law enforcement.-Identify the operational areas where the Rescue Task Force will operate.-How Rescue Task Force members will team up with their law enforcement security element.-How to tactically move as a Rescue Task Force.-How and where to establish a Causality Collection Point.-How to evacuate casualties from an Indirect - lifts & drags.-Threat environment to an Ambulance Exchange Point. Direct & Indirect Threat Care, Gunshot & stab wounds.-Entrance and exit wounds.-Blast Wounds.-Impaled Objects.-Sucking chest wounds. - Types of bleeding. Capillary.. Venous.. Arterial, RTA: Rapid Trauma Assessment, BATH Assessment.- Basic methods to stop bleeding, Tactical Trauma: How and when to use trauma tourniquet, Documenting the use of a tourniquets - CAT, Soft T, RAT, Swat T, What is hemostatic gauze and when to use it, How and when to use combat pressure dressing bandaging, Tactical evacuation of the injured - lifts, carries, drags, equipment, Providing full patient report to other providers.