Mods.  We need a Medical Training section here.

This came up after someone posted in GD asking what they can do to prepare for events like what happened in Paris, when they come to the US, or any other mass casualty events.

I would also like to reach out to the other medical professionals who have EMS, Trauma, Combat Medic, and related training and experience.

I think we could collectively develop a base curriculum that would help prepare Joe public for being able to deal with these events better than just running and screaming.

Initial ideas for an outline include:

* Pre-incident threat recognition and reporting
* Pre-incident threat interference, surveillance
* Post-incident egress
* Post-incident analysis and decision matrix
* Practical urban IFAK and vehicle-borne medic bags
* Rapid triage
* Scene hand-off and coordination with EMS
* EMS assist in basic first aid and patient management

Looking forward to your ideas.  Course Title would be Practical Mass Casualty Management for Citizen First Responders.

EMT here as well as ARC instructor for basically every class....this is a fantastic idea.

Wouldnt be to hard either to come up with a basic trauma reponse type course or general information for people too.

Another important topic to be added is triage as this is something that lay responders can for sure help with.


Edit: reading helps lol

Great idea, I think a med forum would be very valuable.

How many people died in these latest terrorist incidents in Paris, Mali, and San Bernardino due to preventable blood loss?

From battlefield injuries, preventable blood loss is one of the leading causes of death.

Tag for later. I'm interested.

tag, hope it happens

A forum, even one as active as this one loses synergy when it has too many subforums.

A good rule of thumb once you have reached as many subforums as we have here is that for every new subforum one pre-existing one would be merged with another.

STRATFOR: The Medical Response to Armed Assaults

You  are going to need a better acronym.  PMCMCFR?

Excellent idea!

Any updates on this??

Good! A few of us have asked for years.