Grid Down Wound Care
The procedures you’ve learned in every first aid class you’ve ever taken instruct the care giver to call 911 or transport the patient to a hospital for definitive medical treatment after first aid is rendered.
Have you ever considered what you might do for your patient at that point if higher level medical care isn’t available? You could be out hiking in the wilderness with no communication or transportation. A pandemic might have filled all your local medical clinics beyond capacity. A natural disaster or terrorist attack could destroy the only hospital within driving distance. You could encounter any number of situations that might limit your access to professional medical care for you or your family. What happens then?
Those are the kind of scenarios this course will prepare you to handle.
Topics Covered:
- How to evaluate wounds and stop bleeding
- Wound cleaning and disinfection
- Basic splinting and bandaging techniques
- When to close a wound and when not to do so
- Proper use of steri-strips or butterfly bandages
- How to close wounds with topical skin adhesives and “super glue”
- Skin stapling and staple removal
- How to do basic skin suturing and suture removal
- Recognition and treatment of wound infections
- Antibiotic recommendations and how to legally acquire those antibiotics without a prescription
- Equipment recommendations for long term wound care
- Herbal antibiotic alternatives
Students will practice these wound management treatment modalities on a variety of tissue simulation materials. All classroom equipment will be provided by the instructor.
**Class from 10am-5pm | **Students must provide a lunch and notepad/computer for note taking.
Greg Ellifritz
- Greg Ellifritz is Active Response Training's president and primary instructor.
- Greg recently retired after serving 25 years as a police officer. During his tenure, Greg spent 13 years as the full-time tactical training officer for a central Ohio police department. In that training position, he was responsible for developing and instructing all the in-service training for his 55-officer agency. In addition to the training position, he also served as patrol officer, rangemaster, weapons armorer, bike patrol officer, bike patrol coordinator, sniper, and field training officer during his career.
- He instructed classes at the Tactical Defense Institute for 17 years and served as a lead instructor for TDI’s ground fighting, knife fighting, active shooter, impact weapons, and extreme close quarters shooting classes.
- Greg holds instructor, master instructor, or armorer certifications in more than 85 different weapons systems, defensive tactics programs, and law enforcement specialty topics. In addition to these instructor certifications, Greg has successfully completed more than 4,500 hours of documented formal training with the leading firearms, empty hand fighting, and edged weapons instructors in the country.
- Greg designed the curriculum for the first law enforcement defensive knife class ever presented at the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy. He taught that police knife class to officers from more than 10 different states for numerous years.
- He has a master’s degree in public policy and management with a focus on criminal justice policy issues and has contributed to several publications and websites including: ‘The Firearms Instructor,” “Ohio Police Chief,” “Combat Handguns,” Survivalblog.com, “Concealed Carry Magazine,” Primedia's "Personal & Home Defense Annual," “Police One,” "Recoil Magazine," and “American Handgunner.”
Class details
Classroom – 7 hours, 10am-5pm
Cost – $300
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