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Medical Training Courses

Survival Edge have over 35 years of experience in the pre-hospital environment, including hostile, austere, wilderness and expedition locations. We specialise in training those whose occupation is something other than medical for example, journalists, oil and gas, security, film & TV crews etc. Humans are remarkable survival machines that have adapted over millenia to survive where circumstances and physiology allow. We have a range of courses ideally suited to provide our students with the knowledge and skills needed to provide an effective first response in a crisis event. All our courses include high fidelity scenarios using real actors with extensive experience providing medical simulations and character portrayals with make-up artists and theatrical props and effects. This provides not only a contextually accurate learning environment but it allows students to gain a learning experience that is rapidly recalled in a crisis. 

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First Aid in Complex Environments

The FACE course is designed for any person who works in a high threat, complex or challenging environment and who requires mission appropriate first aid training. Based on combat casualty care guidelines, this course focuses on critical medical interventions in the first moments following a crisis. The course develops to include those actions that may be required following the initial treatment plan. The whole context of the course is set within a tactical or crisis situation where violence has been used, be it penetrating trauma caused by ballistic weapons, stabbings or explosive injuries. To find out more about this course, click on the link below. 

Wilderness First Aid  Modules

This series of modules are designed to complement the First Aid at Work qualification by providing modules of learning specific to the wilderness and outdoor environment. The following modules are included:

1.  Hyper/hypothermia & drowning. 

2.  Head injury.

3.  Musculo-skeletal injuries. 

4.  First aid wound management.

5.  Basic prolonged field care.

 

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Prolonged Field Care

For First Responders managing a casualty in difficult, remote and challenging environments is often only part of the process, once the casualty is stable, what comes next? In many of these situations the real challenge is to manage an appropriate evacuation to a suitable medical facility on an appropriate evacuation platform. Time though is a major limiting factor and what to do with the casualty while waiting is the focus for this course. This course will provide responders with a framework of secondary care skills to manage casualty's during this therapeutic vacuum.

 

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