Combat First Aid-Law Enforcement

3100 Belmont Boulevard,West Richland WA 99353

27 May, 2021

Description

Combat First Aid-Law Enforcment Combat First Aid has had the honor and privilege of training over 7,000 Law Enforcement Officers, over 1,000 Fire/EMS Providers, as well as hundreds of private citizens. We have over 75 SAVES from students that have taken our course and rendered care on and off duty and saved lives! Combat First Aid-Law Enforcement COMBAT FIRST AID is specific to Law Enforcement and is pertinent to Patrol Officers and SWAT members. Specifically, SWAT teams have an advantage over the Patrol Officer. They have better body armor, safety in numbers, the element of surprise, and usually have a Paramedic on the team. The Patrol officer is typically alone, has minimal body armor and could be a long way from medical help. Also, transition time from a traumatic incident to a “safe scene”, where EMS is allowed, can be critical to whether necessary lifesaving treatment will be administered. This gap in time is often the deciding factor whether an injured person lives or dies. Proper trauma care administered by a Law Enforcement Officer will save lives and offers a mitigation strategy to a problem that has historically been unaddressed. Most importantly it allows the officer to stay in the fight and not lay there helplessly bleeding out. The COMBAT FIRST AID class teaches the Patrol Officer to administer lifesaving treatment to themselves, a fellow officer or a citizen that has sustained a life-threatening injury. The class covers the three preventable causes of combat death and the treatment for all three. The training provided by COMBAT FIRST AID is developed from Tactical Combat Causality Care (TCCC) – the most updated curriculum. The TCCC class is specific to Paramedics and EMT’s but we have adapted the training, so it is relevant to the Patrol Officer/SWAT Operator and non-medical first responders.