Major Incident Trauma Curriculum

• The hazards that pose a risk to personal safety

• Responsibilities of the First Responder

• Dynamic risk assessing

• PPE overview

• Selecting the correct PPE in relation to the incident 

• Types of infection that may be encountered

• Methods of spread or mode of transmission of infection 

• The Chain of infection

• Using gloves

• Face and eye protection Full body suit

• Actions to withdraw from an incident Hazardous waste disposal

• EMS integration

• DRCA(c)BCDE

• METHANE reporting for scene management

• Mechanism of injury

• Triage sieve

• Prioritising casualty management and assessing the number of casualties

• ASHICE

• SBAR

• Additional resources at the scene

• Serious Bleeding 

• Excessive bleeding control

• Blood loss - a practical demonstration

• Embedded objects

• Knife Wounds

• AmputationTreatment

• Blast Injuries 

• Chest injuries

• Abdominal Injuries

• Trauma dressings

• Haemostatic dressing or tourniquet?

• Tourniquets and where to use them

• Tourniquets - CAT, SOFT-T and MAT

• What damage can be done with tourniquets

• When tourniquets don't work, and applying the second one 

• Haemostatic dressings

• Packing a wound with Celox Z Fold haemostatic dressing 

• Celox A

• Celox Granules

• Monitoring a patient after tourniquet or haemostatic have been used

• Catastrophic Bleeding Kits

• Recovery position

• Shock

• Patient handover to EMS

• Post-traumatic stress

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