First Aid Training that is actually usefull!!
Hi Guys,
Part of my job involves going to some remote and sometime hostile places. Therefore work has just sent me on an a course that covered things well beyond the scope of a normal First Aid At Work or First Person on Scene- Intermediate, course. Including Needle Chest decompression, torniquets, canulation, emergency airways and many others. (These techniques are not to be used in the UK for legal reasons but are life savers in less developed parts of the world)
This is far from the only "first Aid" course I have been on but it is the first that I actually felt would be usefull in the sort of places that I and many others on here like to visit when traveling. Lets be honest if you roll your Landcruiser/ highside your Africa Twin in the middle of the DRC you want your travel companion to know a bit more than sticky plasters and triangular bandages if you are planning on surviving.
So my question is does anyone offer this sort of training for travelers? If not why not? Its all very well me doing the course through my line of work but if I am the injured party I would feel happier knowing that my travel companions have had some meaningfull training and could actually do something usefull in the event of me having life threatening injuries!
Is it just me or is QUALITY casualty care training the thing that most of us forget when preping for an expedition?
Off my soap box now
Jesus
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