Combat First Aid-Quicny PD
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Location
Quincy Police Department
223 1st Avenue Southwest Quincy, WA 98848Refund Policy
Description
COMBAT FIRST AID is specific to Law Enforcement and is pertinent to Patrol Officers, SWAT Operators and First Responders.
Specifically, SWAT teams have an advantage over the Patrol Officer. They have better body armor, safety in numbers, the element of surprise, and usually have a Paramedic on the team. The Patrol officer is typically alone, has minimal body armor and could be a long way away from medical help. Also, transition time from a traumatic incident to a “safe scene”, where EMS is allowed, can be critical to whether necessary lifesaving treatment will be administered. This gap in time is often the deciding factor whether an injured person lives or dies. Proper combat/critical care administered by the SWAT Operator or Patrol Officer will save lives and offers a mitigation strategy to a problem that has historically been unaddressed. Most importantly it allows the officer to stay in the fight and not lay there helplessly bleeding out.
The COMBAT FIRST AID class teaches the Patrol Officer to administer lifesaving treatment to themselves, a fellow officer or a citizen that has sustained a life threatening injury. The class covers the three preventable causes of combat death and the treatment for all three. The course also covers M.A.R.C.H. assessment skills and an animal tissue lab to practice junctional hemorrhage strategies. The training provided by COMBAT FIRST AID is developed from Tactical Combat Causality Care (TCCC) – the newest curriculum. The TCCC class is specific to Paramedics and EMT’s but we have adapted the training so it is relevant to the Patrol Officer/SWAT Operator and non-medical first responders.
Organized by
Jenn Foreman
OWNER, INSTRUCTOR
Jenn has been in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) since 1994. She has held First Responder and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certifications, and since 2002 is a Washington State and nationally certified Paramedic. She is a Washington State Basic Life Support (BLS) evaluator, Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) instructor, Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) instructor, Bleeding Control (BCON) Instructor and Combat First Aid Instructor. During her EMS career, Jenn held positions as shift supervisor, Command Staff Medic and Advance Life Support Training Coordinator. She is also a member of the Special Operations Medical Association, Washington State Tactical Officers Association and The National Tactical Officer’s Association.
Jenn served on the Chelan County Regional SWAT Team from 2004-2016 as a Commissioned Tactical Medic. She received her tactical medical training at the International School of Tactical Medicine. Jenn was voted and honored as Operator of the Year in 2009 by the members of the Chelan County Regional SWAT Team. In 2016 she was awarded a scholarship to the National Tactical Officer’s Association Conference, one of 15 in the nation.
Jenn is the owner and Lead Instructor of Combat First Aid which was created in 2010 after a local law enforcement agency asked her to develop and teach a curriculum to patrol officers on how to administer self-care and partner care if critically injured. Having already developed and taught a similar curriculum to her SWAT team members, Jenn was eager to take on the challenge. Drawing on the principles from the military’s Tactical Combat Casualty Care protocols Jenn was able to create efficient, effective, usable and teachable field care concepts. As a result, Combat First Aid was born.
Jenn teaches law enforcement officers how to administer lifesaving treatment to themselves, a fellow officer or a citizen who has sustained a life threatening injury. The three preventable causes of combat death as well as the treatment for each are covered extensively throughout the course. Jenn has taken the TCCC curriculum, which is evidence based medicine and specific to the military, and has adapted the training so it is relevant to the officer/SWAT/UC operator and non-medical first responders. The concept of COMBAT FIRST and then AID is reinforced throughout the course of instruction.
Jenn has had the honor of instructing and consulting: Government Agencies, Safety Officers, Private Security, Corporate Security, Health Care Professionals, Administrators First Responders, Volunteers Organizations, Search and Rescue, Rescue Task Force, Emergency Managers, Fire Fighters, Law Enforcement Agencies, Health Care Facilities, Teachers, Professors, Colleges, Churches and Private Corporations.
Combat First Aid has gained popularity over the last several years, mostly by word of mouth. Jenn and her medical and law enforcement instructors have trained over 7,500 Officers and First Responders from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California and Canada. To date we have confirmed that graduates of Combat First Aid have used the training that they received in the class to save lives in the field. These have included both civilian and suspect casualties with injuries ranging from severe accidental extremity wounds to officer delivered rifle fire and penetrating trauma.