Lone Star Medics – Caleb Causey – Med Preparedness

You are on your own… plan for it.

This one-day course provides students with the medical knowledge, skills, and resources to be better prepared for various unfortunate events in their community.  Over the years it has become more and more apparent that even brief, let alone long-term breakdowns in government ran infrastructure/systems can leave communities and individual families to fend for themselves.  Some of those affected systems may include EMS or entire hospitals in some regions.  Which means basic medical care is the responsibility of each neighborhood or household.  The “Med Prep” course prepares students for such scenarios.

Subjects covered
– Establishing immediate medical response teams
            duties/responsibilities at individual, family, neighborhood level
– Developing a field aid station or field clinic (aka “first aid” station)
– Medical equipment selection, maintenance, and resupply
            level I-IV med kits
            trauma; tactical/field/clinical
            diagnostic
            monitoring
            wound management
            chronic treatment planning
– Cross-training and introduction to teaching methods
– Home pharmacy; building and maintaining your preparedness “medicine cabinet”
– Field hygiene and preventive medicine
– Non-emergency medical… emergencies
            labor & delivery
            mortuary affairs
            dental
            tummy aches
            coughs & sniffles
            sprains & strains
            itchy rashes
– Building medical caches
– Adaptive transportation/EVAC planning
– Mental Health/Wellness
– Complementary and Alternative Medicine (because at this point, why not)