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A first responder applying medical treatment to a casualty during a high-pressure, multi-casualty incident. The image showcases key trauma care skills, such as controlling bleeding and using personal protective equipment (PPE) in a chaotic environment.

Major Incident Trauma Curriculum

  • Prepare. Respond. Save Lives.

  • This dynamic, hands-on course is designed for first responders, emergency personnel, first aiders looking to advance their skills, and anyone working in high-risk environments. You'll gain life-saving trauma management techniques, master scene control under pressure, and learn how to take charge during the most critical moments of a major incident — with confidence, clarity, and precision.

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What You'll Learn

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1. Scene Safety & First Response

  • The real-world hazards that threaten personal safety

  • The critical responsibilities of a First Responder

  • Rapid Dynamic Risk Assessments in volatile situations

  • Choosing and using PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) effectively, including:

  • Gloves, eye and face protection

  • Full-body suits

  • Infection control: understanding the chain of infection and how to break it

2. Command & Control at the Scene

  • Withdrawing safely from incidents

  • Managing hazardous waste

  • EMS integration & scene coordination

  • METHANE reporting: Essential for effective scene communication

  • Tactical decision-making using DRCA(c)BCDE

  • Understanding mechanism of injury and casualty prioritisation

  • Triage Sieve: Identifying who needs help first, fast

  • Communication handovers: ASHICE & SBAR protocols

3. Life-Threatening Trauma Management

  • Serious & catastrophic bleeding: Control techniques that make the difference

  • Embedded objects, knife wounds, amputations & blast injuries

  • Chest & abdominal trauma: Assess, treat, stabilise

  • Real-time demos: Blood loss control in practical settings

  • Choosing between trauma dressings, haemostatic agents, and tourniquets

4. Tourniquets & Haemostatic Mastery

  • When and where to use a tourniquet

  • Overview of CAT, SOFT-T, and MAT tourniquets

  • What can go wrong — and how to fix it with secondary application

  • Haemostatic options: Celox Z-Fold, Celox A, Granules

  • Live simulation: Wound packing & haemostatic agent application

5. Beyond the Incident

  • Shock recognition and management

  • Effective handover to EMS teams

  • Catastrophic Bleeding Kits – what’s in them & how to use them

  • The Recovery Position — revisited with trauma in mind

  • Dealing with post-traumatic stress for both casualties and responders

Who Should Attend?

  • This course is ideal for:

  • Emergency responders

  • Military or security personnel

  • High-risk industry workers

  • Event medics or public safety teams

  • Anyone who wants to be fully prepared for mass casualty events

Outcome:

  • Walk away with practical, evidence-based trauma care skills that save lives. From a hostile environment to the handover at the ER — you’ll know what to do, when it matters most

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Courses We Offer:
First Aid · CPR · AED · Basic Life Support (BLS) · Immediate Life Support (ILS) · Safeguarding · Health & Safety · Fire Safety · Risk Assessment

Areas We Cover:
Yorkshire · Lancashire · Bradford · Halifax · Wakefield · Leeds · Keighley · Huddersfield · Bolton · Manchester · Sheffield · Blackburn · Rochdale
Other areas considered – just ask!

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Contact

20 Newill Close

Bradford

BD5 8QY, UK

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