Pre-Deployment Medical Training

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Looks like someone is making money from a SOF trauma class, and selling it to SOF personnel.

In case someone missed it, this is what your 18D should be doing for cross-training.

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DARC
Remote Medical Operator Course (RMOC)

Purpose and Scope:
This course is designed to familiarize the SOF operator (medical and non-medically trained) with the fundamentals of trauma management in the austere and denied areas. At the end of the course the operator will have an understanding of how anatomy and physiology are affected by trauma that occurs in the combat environment. The course will be based on recommendations currently used in pre-hospital care and supported by the recent surgical trauma literature.

Course Structure:
There are three parts to this course:
1. Anatomy
2. Physiology
3. Treatment /Triage

Anatomy:
This section will demonstrate the role of anatomy and injury occurrence to allow the inexperienced operator an understanding of where injury occurs and therefore how it affects the combatant. Using detailed graphics, and himself as a study aid, at the end of the course he will be able to accurately demonstrate the effective use of bandages and tourniquets to control hemorrhage and the characteristics of other hemorrhage control devices.

Physiology:
Understanding how a system operates is fundamental to detailing how to maneuver within that system, when it is injured. This class covers the basics of circulation, respiration and motion, to help establish the priorities of combat casualty care. This class uses real world examples, and the operator as the patient, so that he becomes practically involved in the training, which optimizes learning recall.

Treatment/Triage:
The course culminates with scenarios that will challenge the most astute operator, so that the real world mission can be dealt with in a confident and forthright manner if/when the time comes to perform these tasks. Utilizing after action critiques and feedback from experienced operators this is the part of the class where practicality and mission accomplishment are the measure of the results of the training.

Conclusion:
The lecture phase of this course is taught over 4-6 hour time frames depending on the group’s familiarity and previous experience level with medicine and surgery. The scenario-based portion of the training is built into the practical exercise portion of the course, which covers approximately 24 hours as the medical cadre asses and help the operators develop the SOP’s that most accurately assist them with their unique missions.

Materials and supplies:
All of the materials and supplies for this course are provided by DARC/LTMS.
Each student will be issued three training kits and at the end of the course the operator will be issued two “Go” Trauma Packs, which will include:
1 Israeli Bandage
1 CAT tourniquet
1 Combat medical pouch
1 10 or 14 Gauge Catheter
Multiple sets of Black Latex gloves

Instructors:
This course will be taught by the DARC/LTMS staff and will include not less than:

Physician with trauma surgery experience and current clinician whose practice is in trauma related injury and management. Additionally, he will be familiar with pre-hospital management of medical injury that is unique to the modern urban warfare threat matrix.

Physician Assistant who has SOF and third world medical experience and provides detailed real world operator level knowledge to scenarios and instruction.

The optimum size of a class is eight (8) but it can be done with as few as five (5), and as many as twelve (12).

Cost:
$1500 per person