Goals of the training

• To prepare travels and stays abroad from a medical point of view
• Provide emergency medical care to colleagues with massive bleeding due to accidents at work, traffic accidents or a terrorist attack
• Know and apply life-saving measures that cover periods far beyond the classic rescue times in Europe
• Apply life-saving measures for oneself (lone worker)

Target group

Business travellers, project workers and assemblers who are in regions with poor medical infrastructure and care.

Trainer

• Former Special Forces Medic of the German Armed Forces Command (KSK)
• Graduate of the world's most extensive Special Forces Medical training (18D course in the USA)
• Paramedic, Offshore-Medic and Flight Medic
• Numerous foreign assignments in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, including as a Medic for the OSCE in Ukraine and for companies in high-risk regions such as Iraq.

Content of the training

• Travel planning and preparation from a medical point of view
• Limits of classical first aid in remote areas and developing countries
• Rescue chain in the countries of operation
• Travel diseases
• First-aid kit and personal medic kit
• Trauma emergencies with massive bleeding
• Airway management
• Thoracic injuries
• Stabilization of blood circulation
• Wound care
• Practical application of tourniquet, emergency bandage and chest seal

Methodology

• Short theoretical instruction
• Practical demonstrations and exercises on the application of various emergency medical measures that are easy to learn
• We use a variety of simulators, like wound packing simulators