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Posted: 6/24/2016 9:20:15 AM EDT

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Whats there to know, you try and stop the blood from leaking out

stay woke

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:20:34 AM EDT

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I am a self taught doctor of love and am always ready to perform surgery

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A chance to cut is a chance to cure!

I've done MD, ACLS, and spent enough time in the trauma bay of a level 1 trauma center to pump a few chests.
But, I'm much better at autopsy than any of that type stuff these days. Still useful, just in a different way.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:29:54 AM EDT

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i was a medic in the army and now I'm a nursing student

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:31:53 AM EDT

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I have people who do that for me. You see, I'm a specialist.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:35:06 AM EDT

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Well I'm ACLS certified. I'd argue that's about as prepared as you can get to save a life immediately following trauma.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:41:05 AM EDT

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Ill be the lowly Joe nobody ...
Basic first aid..CPR..adult/infant/aed through red cross. 2 day CLS course..three different TCC style courses...
Plus boyscouts lifesaver merit badge and first aid bro LOL.
So I'm OK to stop bleeders when hiking...hunting...but not much else. No cool Guy creds here sorry GD.

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Posted: 6/24/2016 9:41:11 AM EDT

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I've had an 8-hr crash course in wound packing, tourniquet application, and basic blood loss stoppage. I have trauma kits nearby and I practice frequently. Not what I consider enough, but it's a start. Always need more training.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:42:54 AM EDT

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EMT-B in my past life, currently CPR and First Aid instructor. Odds and ends of .mil CLS courses over the years. Competent enough to do every day run of the mil aid including gun shot, stab wounds, blast/amputation and car wreck type jazz. Wouldn't want to try a heart or brain transplant.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:44:02 AM EDT

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Had EMT-B training then some more but not enough for EMT-P, that was over 30 years ago so I have probably forgotten more than I retained and new techniques have replaced a lot of what I learned then. Certified as a WFR (Wilderness First Responder) and Swift Water Rescue Tech II, have to take a new class or refresher this year to retain the WFR.

With the training I have had I still feel incompetent even though I know a hell of a lot more than most.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:46:26 AM EDT

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I'm not a medical professional, but I have spent many nights in a certified operating room nurse.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:49:52 AM EDT

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I have no formal training as a gynecologist...
but I'll take a look.

Posted: 6/24/2016 9:50:19 AM EDT

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I'm a certified lifeguard. I'll try my best to keep someone alive until someone who knows what they are doing shows up

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This. But that was also like 10 years ago

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:00:23 AM EDT

[#13]

Board Certified Emergency Physician

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:24:10 AM EDT

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first responder/certified EMR

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:25:12 AM EDT

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Wilderness First Aid certified.

I can make a splint out of a stick. If we're in an urban environment then I guess I'm useless.

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:26:23 AM EDT

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I have a roll of duct tape and a leatherman so I am good to go. And I am sure that ARMY training from the 80s will come flooding back.

If shtf without hospitals medevac etc. any major wound is death so the tape and a bottle of whisky should cover most situations.

I am in medical admin so I will be checking insurance before I break out my DT.

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:32:19 AM EDT

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Some Youtube, but that's the same thing as real training right?

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:37:49 AM EDT

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Medically speaking, I'll allow it.

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I can jerk myself off.

Medically speaking, I'll allow it.

Denied.

That is a qualification for a dispatcher.

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:45:30 AM EDT

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I got my EMT-B certification a few years ago for the hell of it, but let it lapse after moving back to GA

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:47:03 AM EDT

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I see this statement all the time and stand by it firmly "you should be as prepared to save a life as you are to take a life".
This got me curious how many on Arfcom are actually certified to save a life. If not certified you should be everyone should know the basic assessments, and rapid trauma treatments if you carry a firearm.
Not just for other but for yourself chances are if you are close enough to use your firearm so is the bad guy!

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tons of military first aid classes, and multiple combat lifesaver courses. treating everything from boo boo's, to heat stroke, to treating gun shot wounds to giving iv's. I'm no paramedic, but I'm better than most other people walking around if something happens.

but if your doing something bad enough to make me shoot you... I would not expect the best care in return.

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:47:08 AM EDT

[#21]

Working on it. Med student.

Posted: 6/24/2016 10:50:31 AM EDT

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Posted: 6/24/2016 11:03:07 AM EDT

[#23]

I do.

Just this morning I saw a GSW/cracked chest/massive transfusion protocol.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:04:58 AM EDT

[#24]

First aid/CPR and I've also attended a Dark Angel medical ECC course. Not a medic by any means, but hopefully I'll be able to save a family member or myself if the need ever arises.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:06:04 AM EDT

[#25]

I have my CPR card.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:08:48 AM EDT

[#26]

I was an EMT (note was, never bothered to keep up). Other than that I'm just a generic "first responder" with your first aid/CPR/AED cards in tow along with some haz-waste training.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:10:00 AM EDT

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The Army sent me thru Combat Livesaver a few times.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:13:45 AM EDT

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Firefighter paramedic. 20 years in emergency services. I also have trained on several more advanced procedures as the opportunities have presented themselves.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:14:18 AM EDT

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I have worked in and around hospitals since 1976 and was married to a nurse for 30 years.

My take away from all that is that a lot of people who are in a medical crisis are not worth the effort to attempt to save.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:15:12 AM EDT

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Paramedic.

Non invasive cardiology and pacemaker programing... A man needs to pay the mortgage, sure as shit can't do it as well just being an amberlamps driver.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:21:18 AM EDT

[#31]

FF/EMT for a dozen years, so I am qualified to put an NRB on you and stick you in the back of the shit box before we get back to figuring out what we are having for dinner.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:27:28 AM EDT

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NREMT-P for 10 years...That was 16yrs ago.
I feel that I could brush up and jump back into it.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:41:56 AM EDT

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Me not so much. Wife works as RN in OR and surg tech degree. Her being in the OR has significant helped out my first aid kit. Basically have a mobile OR set aside.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:44:49 AM EDT

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I had a emt 1 cert at one point in my life. I let the cert lapse but could go back for a refresher course if I wanted it back.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:48:45 AM EDT

[#35]

Yep lots of it. And continuing... As in CEU's

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:49:15 AM EDT

[#36]

I went through a State of Texas Emergency Care Attendant certification years ago. It was the first step to becoming a Paramedic but it's not offered any more. I still remember a bit of it. Right now all I have is a CPR/AED card.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:52:41 AM EDT

[#37]

I know to rub dirt in the wound, and patch it up with duct tape. Everyone should know that.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:55:02 AM EDT

[#38]

Former 18D, EMT-P, ATLS, etc...

I can do all right I guess.

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:56:24 AM EDT

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Expired NREMT-P and former USAF flight medic (Aeromedical Evacuation Craftsman X4N071) here.

Continuing education credits are a bummer when you no longer work for a service....

Posted: 6/24/2016 11:56:55 AM EDT

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I was an EMT-B (w/ NR) but gave it up after 4 years as I hated it which was about 4 years ago now.

I still remember what DCAP-BTLS stands for though except the "B" alluded me at first

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:03:47 PM EDT

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I know how to use everything in my Blow Out Bag that's in the trunk.

What scares me is when I look at the decompression needle in my pack. I know exactly what it's for and how to use it, but have never been officially trained on tension pneumothorax. Knowing how shitty things have gotten if you're whipping out the chest seals is bad enough.

I really do need more training since it's been years since the Navy. At least I have the bag available for when someone that's better trained on how to use it arrives I guess.

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:12:13 PM EDT

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Need a ball-point pen too!

EMT/Haz-Mat Tech etc

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:17:13 PM EDT

[#43]

I was trained in Space Shuttle rescue.

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:17:40 PM EDT

[#44]

I probably have the equivalent knowledge and skills of a loblolly boy

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:17:53 PM EDT

[#45]

I know how to rub dirt on the wound.

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:25:03 PM EDT

[#46]

I have CPR cert, emergency first aid cert, and I took a class for patching up bigger holes in people.

E1stA class is basically "Don't touch the blood!" while the other class is "Shove some gauze in it and apply an Israeli bandage!"

But I can make a chest seal out of a credit card though

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:25:03 PM EDT

[#47]

I guess I am qualified: Tactical Combat Casualty Care Course.

Posted: 6/24/2016 12:28:06 PM EDT

[#48]

I took an ambulance driver course once....

Posted: 6/24/2016 1:12:20 PM EDT

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Very Impresive...... Instructor Maybe?

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I do! Special Operations Combat Medic course, ACLS, PEPP, PALS, BLS, NREMT-P, ATP, Georgia State Paramedic, Tropical Medicine Course, Tactical Combat Medical Course, Bridgade Comabat Trauma Tarining, Army Trauma Training Center, 68w AIT, USSOCOM Casevac Course, AFSOC Casevac Course. Probably something else but I don't have my credentials book in front of me

Very Impresive...... Instructor Maybe?

I was a big army medic AIT instructor at one point. I'm in SOF so the things I listed is pretty normal. My team will be doing an austere medical/prolonged field care course soon.

Posted: 6/24/2016 1:24:07 PM EDT

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I'm not but want to be. Where are good places to get training. I don't care to be an emt or anything just want to have the knowledge to be able to help when needed.

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Check with your local Fire Department for guidance.

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