Course Description:

An injury rarely happens right next to a fully stocked first aid kit. At FATALE you will learn to give first aid with whatever you happen to have on you, whether it's a T-shirt, a belt, a scarf or a car seat belt.

FATALE (First And Tactical Aid with Limited Equipment) is a one-day medical course. It draws on the experience of the special forces community and prepares you for situations where help is far away and medical supplies are scarce. You will learn to triage casualties, follow a simple algorithm and use short-distance extraction techniques. Then come the basics of stopping bleeding from the limbs and in places where a tourniquet can't be applied, opening the airway, treating torso injuries, treating shock, preventing hypothermia and treating eye injuries. Finally, you will prepare a casualty for transport and move them.

You will spend most of the day in hands-on practice and scenarios led by instructors from the Czech Armed Forces. Bring old clothes that can be torn up; we provide the training medical supplies. We never have more than 8 students per instructor, so you try every improvised treatment yourself.

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Who Is This Course For:

For anyone who wants to be able to help a casualty even without a stocked first aid kit, on a hike, while traveling or at work. The course is designed for complete beginners with no previous first aid experience. It is also useful for graduates of CLS or TECC who want to master their procedures with a minimum of equipment.

What You Will Learn:

After the course you know how first aid differs in a remote and hostile environment, and you can triage casualties and follow a simple algorithm. You can use short-distance extraction techniques and the basics of stopping bleeding from the limbs and in places where a tourniquet can't be applied, using improvised equipment. You can open the airway, recognize and treat torso injuries, treat shock, prevent hypothermia and treat an eye injury. And you know how to prepare a casualty for transport and move them.

Contents:

Specifics of providing prehospital emergency care in a remote or hostile environment, triage, algorithmic medicine, short-distance extraction techniques, basics of controlling limb and junctional hemorrhage, opening the airway, torso injuries and their diagnosis and treatment in a remote environment, circulation and shock treatment, hypothermia prevention techniques, treatment of eye injuries, preparing a patient for transport, patient transport, scenarios.

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), an old T-shirt, sweatshirt or jacket that can be torn up, a belt, a plastic bag, a scarf, a car seat belt and similar items that can be used for first aid.

We will also provide you with our training medical supplies.

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:

If you want to go deeper into combat medicine, continue with Combat LifeSaver, which matches the content of the military version, where you will learn to use a tourniquet, bandaging techniques and the primary survey. Tactical Emergency Casualty Care is designed for police officers and EMS personnel and teaches how casualty care differs in the individual phases of a response. And if you want to be able to survive in nature with a minimum of equipment, you will find related training at Survival, where you build an improvised shelter, start a fire with emergency means and find water in the field. If, on the other hand, you want to learn to work with professional equipment such as a tourniquet or a pressure bandage, start with our one-day First Responder course.

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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