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Increasing violence toward EMS personnel has required EMS employers to begin teaching situational awareness, self-defense classes and even consider issuing ballistic gear. Seeing an increase in violence toward their providers, Wake County (NC) EMS put their providers through a simulated needs assessment that evaluated their ability to maintain situational awareness and ultimately recognize a threat. Don Garner will review their systematic approach and outcomes of the exercise that helped them identify and offer needed education. Come hear about their scenario-based training that taught their personnel how to detect and prevent assaults against them.
Steve Markham, a retired Special Operations IDC with multiple combat deployments uses Hyper-Realism in the replication of battlefield conditions in training environments. Steve will discuss lessons learned from combat and best practices at the POI. He will demonstrate some of these techniques using the STOPS Cut-Suit, a multifaceted training aid that can be used to train responders to perform field crics, hemorrhage control via tourniquets, wound packing and pelvic splints, chest decompression, IV/IO insertion, and more under realistic simulations to prepare your crews to save critically injured patients – or themselves.