Course Description:

Combat LifeSaver matches the content of the military version of the course that soldiers use to learn first aid in combat conditions. In three days you will learn to stop bleeding with a tourniquet and care for a casualty from the initial assessment all the way to treating shock.

CLS is a three-day medical course in advanced emergency first aid in combat conditions. You will learn how casualty care in combat works, and how to apply a tourniquet, use basic airway management techniques, check breathing and treat torso injuries. Then come bandaging techniques, head injuries and hypothermia, and the basics of diagnosing and treating shock. You will bring it all together in the primary survey, the procedure that takes you from the most serious threat onward. One whole day is devoted to Care Under Fire: the commands you use to get a casualty to help themselves and take cover, and pulling them out of the line of fire, for example with an extraction strap.

We provide the training medical supplies, and you don't need to buy any tactical gear; protective glasses are enough.

We never have more than 8 students per instructor, so you try every procedure with your own hands, not just as an onlooker. Over 300 students have completed this course.

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Who Is This Course For:

For soldiers, reservists, members of law enforcement and private security contractors, and civilians who want to be able to help a casualty in demanding conditions. You don't need any previous medical training or courses.

What You Will Learn:

After three days you know how casualty care in combat works, and you can apply a tourniquet. You can use basic airway management techniques, check breathing and treat torso injuries. You can bandage wounds, you know what to do with head injuries and hypothermia, and you can recognize shock and start treating it. And you can perform a primary survey of a casualty, so you know what to deal with first. Under fire, you can use commands to get a casualty to help themselves and get them into cover.

CLS or TECC?

Both courses are built on the same foundation: stopping massive bleeding, managing the airway, treating torso injuries, handling shock and systematically assessing the casualty. They differ in the environment they are designed for. Combat LifeSaver is based on the military TCCC system and assumes combat, so it has an extra day devoted to Care Under Fire. You will learn how to use commands to get a casualty to apply their own tourniquet and take cover, how to pull them out under covering fire, for example with an extraction strap, and how to work in a team that is still in contact. Tactical Emergency Casualty Care is the civilian counterpart for police officers, EMS personnel and firefighters. It is based on the same principles but focuses on civilian situations, such as an active shooter attack or a mass casualty incident, and on quickly handing the casualty over to EMS. If you are a soldier, reservist or contractor, choose CLS. If you respond in a civilian environment, TECC will be a better fit.

Contents:

Introduction to casualty care, tourniquet application, Care Under Fire, basic airway management techniques, breathing assessment and torso injuries, bandaging techniques, head injuries and hypothermia, basics of shock diagnosis and treatment, primary survey.

Required Equipment:

Writing materials, comfortable tactical clothing or a combat uniform and solid outdoor or duty footwear (both suited to the current weather and outdoor temperatures), and if you like, a plate carrier or ballistic vest with gear pouches and AR15 magazine pouches, a helmet or boonie hat, shooting glasses, tactical gloves and an individual training first aid kit. You can of course complete the course in comfortable tactical or civilian clothing without having to buy expensive tactical gear; all you need is protective glasses.

If you would like to try modern ballistic gear, click on your chosen course date and you can rent one of the plate carriers on offer, including ballistic plates, or a top-of-the-line Galvion ballistic helmet.

We will provide you with our training medical supplies. If you have old clothes at home that you're about to throw away, we'd be glad if you brought them to the course. In the scenarios we splash them with fake blood and cut them open during treatment, so you'll be helping us make the training more realistic.

Weapon:

Where the training requires it, we will lend you our inert training replica weapons free of charge.

Medical Courses and the Law:

Czech law does not regulate participation in medical courses in any way. You don't need any permit, and it doesn't matter whether you are a citizen of the Czech Republic, another EU country or a country outside the EU. Czech law sets no fixed minimum age, but a minor participant must be reasonably mature, both mentally and physically. We do not recommend registering children under 12 for a course this intensive.

Timing:

Class starts at 9:00 am. Please arrive at the venue no later than 8:30–8:45 am. The course usually ends around 6:00 pm, with a 30-minute lunch break during the day.

Venue:

We run our courses at various locations across the Czech Republic. You will find the exact venue for each date in the calendar, just click on the date. For multi-day courses that use more than one location, all venues are listed there.

Please check the venue carefully before booking. The same course often runs at different locations on different dates. Every now and then a student books a date expecting it to be at our home base, the Oleško shooting range, only to find out on the day that the course is taking place in Moravia, some 300 km away. To avoid this, always click on the date before booking and check where that particular date takes place.

Language:

Czech with English translation available.

Accommodation and Food:

Accommodation is not included in the course fee, each participant arranges and pays for it themselves. There is a 30-minute lunch break, so bring food that doesn't need cooking or ordering, such as an Adventure Menu type ration, an MRE or food from home, and enough to drink for the whole day.

Where to Go Next:

Most students continue with Combat LifeSaver Advanced, which adds hemorrhage control where a tourniquet can't be applied, surgical airway, IV and IO vascular access, treatment of a penetrating eye injury and a detailed casualty assessment. Since CLS covers everything in basic TECC, you can also continue with Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Advanced, the advanced civilian variant, which adds, for example, managing tension pneumothorax, treating burns and triage. At FATALE you will learn to provide care with improvised equipment, triage casualties and prepare a casualty for transport. Some graduates add shooting to medicine with Dynamic Pistol 1, where you learn safe pistol handling, aimed fire, drawing from the holster and clearing malfunctions.

Have a Question?

You will find answers to the most common questions in our Questions and Answers section. Didn't find what you were looking for? Write or call us using any of our contacts, we will be happy to help.

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