Critical Injury Responder Course (12 hours)

Critical Injury Responder Course (12 Hours)

Standard first aid training was not designed for what you might face.

Knife attacks, acid attacks, vehicle incidents and blast injuries are a feature of daily life in the UK. When they happen, the person nearest to the casualties is almost never a paramedic. They are a bystander, a security officer, an event medic, a first responder, or simply someone who was there. What that person does in the first minutes is what determines whether casualties survive.

Standard workplace first aid courses are not designed to prepare people for these scenarios. The Critical Injury Responder course is.

This 12-hour course goes substantially beyond the content covered in our Catastrophic Bleed Management course, addressing the full range of critical injury types encountered in pre-hospital care: catastrophic bleeds, penetrating wounds, acid and alkali attacks, blast injuries, and multiple casualty situations. The content is based on the latest Position and Consensus Statements from the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and on the introduction of the Critical Injury First Aid Kit under British Standard BS8599-1:2019.

As one delegate described it: “This has been the best first aid medical related course I have ever been on.”

What You Will Learn

The critical injury environment

• The “rescue vacuum”: the period immediately following a critical incident before emergency services arrive, when the outcome is most likely to be shaped by those already on scene
• British Standard BS8599-1:2019 and the Critical Injury First Aid Kit: what it contains and how to use it
• Scene safety in an unstable or ongoing incident

Catastrophic haemorrhage control

• Types of catastrophic bleed: limb, junctional (groin, armpit, neck) and torso
• Tourniquet selection and application: CAT, SOFTT-W and improvised options, with correct placement, timing and documentation
• Haemostatic dressings: the science behind them, which products to use, and correct technique
• Wound packing: when it is appropriate and how to do it safely and effectively
• Pressure bandaging as part of a layered bleed control approach

Penetrating wounds and specialist injuries

• Knife and stabbing wounds: assessment, wound packing and handling penetrating objects
• Gunshot wounds: differences in injury pattern and management priorities
• Acid and alkali attacks: immediate decontamination and injury management
• Blast injuries: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary injury patterns
• Eye injuries and facial trauma in a critical injury context

Managing multiple casualties

• Prioritisation under pressure: the principles of field triage when resources are limited
• Communication with emergency services during an active incident
• The ACT protocol and the STAY SAFE framework

Practical skills throughout

• Extensive hands-on practice with real equipment throughout both days
• Scenario-based exercises under realistic time pressure

Critical Injury Responder Course Certificate:

• Critical Injury Responder Course, certified by Chris Garland Training
• A4 sized pdf certificates are issued.

Course Details

Who Should Attend?

This course is suited to security personnel, close protection officers, event safety and medical teams, armed forces and veterans transitioning to civilian roles, healthcare professionals working in pre-hospital or remote settings, and anyone whose role places them in environments where critical injuries are a foreseeable risk.

Course duration:

• 12 guided learning hours, plus breaks
• Generally we run these courses from 9.30am-4.30pm over two consecutive days.

Test:

• Practical assessments throughout the course.

Critical Injury Responder Course Pre-requisites:

• Candidates must be over 18.
• You do not need to have undertaken any formal first aid training to attend this course, but it will be an advantage if you have.
• Attendees will be required to demonstrate first aid procedures as they would in a real activity environment. This includes providing first aid to a casualty who is on the floor, therefore you must be physically capable of doing so.

Candidates:

• All courses have a minimum and maximum number of candidates that we can take on a course.
  • Minimum: We need a minimum of 5 candidates booked on an open/scheduled course for the course to run. Click here for more details.
  • Maximum: We limit the number of candidates on this course to a maximum of 12. Should you have more than 10 candidates to be trained, please contact us to arrange a private course.

Geographical coverage:

• This Critical Injury Responder Course is available to candidates across the UK. The course can be delivered in other countries; however, candidates should be aware that the protocols meet current UK guidelines.

Venue:

• Scheduled courses – These run at our training centre in Knutsford, Cheshire.
• Private courses – Why not arrange to have a private courses run at your workplace? Simply fill in our quote request form and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Critical Injury Responder Course Joining instructions:

• Visit this page to read the course joining instructions.
• Where your course is not being run at our main training centre, you’ll also receive an email with additional joining instructions including the venue address.

Private courses:

• To arrange a private Critical Injury Responder course for yourself or your colleagues, please fill in our quote request form.

For a shorter introduction to bleed control, see our Catastrophic Bleed Management course (half day). This full 12-hour course is for those who need the complete pre-hospital critical injury skill set.