Catastrophic Bleed Management Course (Half-day)

Catastrophic Bleed Management

In a life-threatening bleed, the first three minutes matter most.

Catastrophic haemorrhage, meaning severe and uncontrolled blood loss, is one of the most preventable causes of traumatic death. Whether it results from a workplace accident, a road traffic collision, or a deliberate attack, the window in which a trained bystander can make a decisive difference is narrow. Ambulance response times vary, and the person with the skills is almost always there first.

This practical half-day course teaches the techniques used to manage life-threatening bleeds before emergency services arrive. It covers the full toolkit: tourniquet application, haemostatic dressings, wound packing and pressure bandaging. These are the same approaches now taught to all first responders, and increasingly to security, events and health and safety teams across the UK.

This course is highly relevant to counter-terrorism preparedness guidance, including the UK’s STAY SAFE, TELL, ACT and ACT First Aid frameworks, to Martyn’s Law venue compliance, and to any organisation reviewing its mass casualty preparedness.

What You Will Learn

• The physiology of catastrophic haemorrhage, and why conventional first aid wound care is not enough
• Types of catastrophic bleed, including limb wounds, junctional wounds (neck, groin, armpit), and torso or trunk bleeds
• Tourniquet application, including types such as CAT and SOFTT-W, as well as improvised options, with correct placement, timing and documentation
• Haemostatic dressings: how they work, which products are appropriate, and how to use them correctly
• Wound packing technique: when it is appropriate, and how to do it safely
• Pressure bandaging as part of a layered approach
• The ACT protocol: Alert, Compress, Tell
• Treating multiple casualties with limited resources
• Handover to emergency services

Course Details

Related Courses

For teams requiring full emergency first aid alongside bleed control, consider our Emergency First Aid at Work or Critical Injury Responder courses.

Catastrophic Bleed Control Course Certificate:

• Certified by Chris Garland Training:
  • PDF format certificates are issued as standard, but paper certificates can be requested.

Course duration:

• 4 guided learning hours.

Catastrophic Bleed Control Course Test:

• Practical assessments throughout the course.

Catastrophic Bleed Control Course Pre-requisites:

• Candidates must be over 18.
• You do not need to have undertaken any formal first aid training to attend this course – the more people who have these skills, the better!
• 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 4 candidates booked on an open/scheduled course for the course to run. Click here for more details.
  • Maximum: We limit numbers to a maximum of 12 candidates per course. Should you have more than 12 candidates to be trained, please contact us to arrange a private course.

Geographical coverage:

• This qualification is available to candidates across the UK. The Qualification can be delivered in other countries; however, candidates should be aware that the protocols meet current UK guidelines.

Venue:

• Scheduled courses run at our training centre in Knutsford, Cheshire.
• Why not arrange to have a private catastrophic bleed control course run at your workplace? Simply fill in our quote builder tool to request a quotation.

Catastrophic Bleed Control 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 course for yourself or your colleagues, please fill in our Quote Builder tool.