Emergency Trauma Care Part 1

OK, I'm tired of Pandemic Memes, back to some real world stuff we can actually use in our daily lives.

We can talk about firearms training, edged, impact and unarmed combative skills for self protection ad nauseum. However a lot of people can't even perform basic first aid skills on themselves or anyone else. Accordingly I will be addressing some basic Emergency Traumatic Wound Care over the next week or so. I personally have taken two courses on Traumatic Wound Care as well as on the use of CPR and the AED.

One Course was taught by a military veteran working in Conjunction with Chris Fry of MDTS Training, and the other course was from a local group where I live in NYC Called Athena Defense Training in Conjunction with the  American Heart Association CPR/AED program and the Red Cross Stop The Bleed program

Both training courses were affordable, well run, and in my opinion, good solid material to provide a workable grounding in handling emergency situations that could b e caused by either a physical assault or serious automotive, worksite, or gun range accident.

This series of Blog Posts will consist of videos addressing severe bleeding, and heart attacks. I don't get a lot of comments here but if anybody has any questions, please post them in the comments section and I will try to answer them as best I can. The first video tutorial is about the use of gauze in conjunction with a pressure bandage to address severe bleeding that cannot be controlled with simple, direct pressure. The video is from the Countycomm website and is an advertisement for the Cotton Gauze packages they sell. However that does not detract from the instruction. This is not an endorsement for Countycomm, I do not work for them, and I do not receive any monetary gain for  linking to this video.

To anybody reading this post, I hope you can get something useful from this video.

NOTE: 
While video tutorials are a valuable means of increasing your knowledge of practical skills, when it come to a subject like Emergency Trauma Care in the absence of a professional First Responder, there is no substitute for hands on training from a qualified instructor. While it may seem mundane, both the American Heart Association's CPR/AED course, and the American Red Cross's Stop The Bleed Course are both inexpensive, and even more importantly, readily available in most areas. If you are interested in learning this material in a hands on environment, I would personally recommend both.

I would also highly recommend, if you live in NY State or one of the surrounding states, Chris Fry's MDTS Training.