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Courses

Below are the current courses that Sergeant Rescue International is currently are offering. All courses vary in cost and may be advertised at discounted rate based on host site options. Scroll Down to register!

Tactical Life Saver Course : The Tactical Lifesaver course is a TECC training course that is recognized by the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and is a derivative of the U.S. Army's Combat Lifesaver Course. The tactical lifesaver course is our most comprehensive and most sought after training program. This training program has been adapted to teach lifesaving techniques for active shooter situations, bombings and MCI scenarios. The course offers multiple in-depth training scenarios that are used to drive home lifesaving techniques and emphasize Fire, EMS and Police integration and can also be used as an in-depth Tactical Rescue Task Force training program. This is a 3 day training course that will challenge anyone to learn and apply skills rapidly in the tactical environment. Certificate of completion for TECC, quick clot certification, and a NAEMT B-CON certification are included.

Basic Rescue Task Force Course: The Basic Rescue Task Force Course is designed to be an introduction to the rescue task force concept which is a major change in doctrine for EMS & Law Enforcement. This is a two-day course that is designed to train the provider in lifesaving techniques for active shooter situations, bombings and any MCI scenario. The course offers multiple in-depth training scenarios that are used to drive home lifesaving techniques. The rescue task force training takes trained day to day EMS providers, and then partners them with law enforcement on scene to rapidly enter secured areas of an active shooter incident. The concept allows medically trained personnel to provide triage, emergent care and provide expedient patient extrication to a higher level of care. This course is designed to bring EMS together with law enforcement to collaboratively train as a rescue task force. The Basic Rescue Task Force Course will include classroom instruction and fast-paced field training exercises. A TECC certificate of completion, quick clot certification, and NAEMT B-CON certifications are included.

Survival for the First Responder: This is a class that is geared around the scariest situation any Officer, Firefighter or EMS provider can imagine. What do you do if you are attacked or become the incident. The course addresses life saving techniques that every first responder should know to start caring for yourself if you become the casualty. This course will also discuss personal first aid kits, body armor, and basic lifesaving techniques. This course contains a block of instruction on self-defense and hand to hand defense techniques. This is an intense 1 day course.

Tactical Emergency Medical Support Provider Course: Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS) is designed to take the training paramedic or EMT and advance their knowledge and preparedness to allow them to safely engage in tactical team support. This course will teach the latest in TECC/TCCC techniques and doctrine, while also presenting the unique challenges the provider will face to effectively support Tactical Law Enforcement teams. This five day training program will prepare you to not only be a tactical provider, but also an effective member of any tactical team.

TCCC / TECC Refresher Training: This course uses hands on scenarios to reevaluate TCCC trained personnel and this can also be used to validate your TEMS Medics. It can be adapted to offer specialized TEMS type training or warm zone operations training based on your team's or company's needs.

*Price based on scenarios*

TP-C / TR-C Refresher Course: Being a Tactical Medical Provider is one of the most challenging jobs and positions an EMT or Paramedic can hold. Those who operate on a tactical team have the privilege and exceptional challenge to provide care, aid, and operational medical oversite for some of the worlds elite law enforcement officers. With the current and emerging threats that face law enforcement today, integration of skilled medical support personnel is critical to mission success. The Tactical Paramedic and Tactical Responder refresher is a comprehensive course that will provide the latest updates to tactical medicine! This interactive course will immerse the participants in guided discussions, scenario based learning, and will provide some great lectures to update your practices. This refresher course teaches everything from pre-mission planning and medical threat assessment to providing care in austere or high threat environments. We will review and discuss the latest TCCC & TECC guidelines. We will introduce you to providing primary care to your team mates. Then lastly we will challenge your knowledge to expand upon known tactics and protocols.

Wilderness Rescue Techniques: This course will take any member of a search and rescue team and dive them head first into a field training problems that allows the trainee to apply known skills and learn new techniques. This course covers enroute care, austere environment medicine, basic rope rescue techniques and advanced navigational skills and training. This course is a 2 day intensive course that is conducted completely in the wilderness. No class rooms here!

Rapid Extraction Module Training Course: Wildland firefighting, Search & Rescue and wilderness medical operations are inherently dangerous as a profession. While safety is the primary concern during all operations, unintended incidents do occur which result in injury or illness to firefighters and responders. Then also, some of our victims find themselves in precarious positions that require the field expertise and training to manage and execute a rescue operation. It is the intent of the Rapid Extraction Module or "REMS" team to provide firefighters, responders, and victims, who are unable to egress under their own power, a safe and secure transport to traditional medical transports, while simultaneously receiving the appropriate medical attention.

Wilderness Rescue Team Leader Course: This is a classroom / field based 4-day training course that is designed to prepare team leaders or technical rescue teams to be effective in the field environment. This course is designed as a technician level team leader program, which builds team dynamics. It consists of both classroom as well as practical field instruction, with an emphasis on team skills, team building, and team management. This team leader initial training program allows the rescuer to manage a team, and mentor basic, intermediate, and advanced level team members. The successful candidate can will be prepared for managing a small rescue unit in the field.

Basic Wilderness First Aid: Basic Wilderness first aid is designed to meet the American Camping Association and the Scouts of America's guidelines for first aid. This course is also an essential course for any outdoor enthusiast. This course teaches basic information about medical problems and traumatic injuries that are most commonly seen in the back country. This course can be offered as a online lecture series or as an inperson training event!

Wilderness First Aid: The Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course will help you prepare for the unexpected. This fast paced, hands-on training is designed to meet the needs of outdoor enthusiasts and individuals working in remote locations. It will introduce you to caring for people who become ill or injured far from any medical care. Classroom lectures and demonstrations are combined with realistic scenarios At the end of the course, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and ability to make sound decisions in emergency situations when in the back country. (16 Hours)

Wilderness Advanced First Aid: This fast paced, hands-on training is designed to meet the needs of trip leaders, camp staff, outdoor enthusiasts and individuals working in remote locations. The WAFA course is designed for those traveling or working in remote areas who need a more extensive training program than the Wilderness First Aid course. This 5-day course focuses on evaluation, treatment, and evacuation assessments to better prepare the back country adventurer for any challenges they may face. Learning takes place both in the classroom and in outdoor settings regardless of weather conditions. (40 Hours)

Wilderness First Responder / Wilderness Medical Upgrade:The Wilderness First Responder course is designed to teach those that are medical professionals and or trip leaders skills necessary to assess, treat and care for patients or clients in the back country setting. Classroom lectures and demonstrations are combined with realistic scenarios where mock patient scenarios will reinforce learning and challenge skills known and learned. Learning takes place both in the classroom and in outdoor settings regardless of weather conditions. (80 Hours)

Wilderness First Responder / WEMT Refresher: This 24 hour course is a scenario based learning exercise. You will be challenged to reapply skills, assessment techniques, and decision making processes learned in your initial training programs to complete the scenarios. This 24 hour refresher must be completed to renew your WFR or WEMT qualifications. This refresher also meets a large portion of NREMT and NCCP refresher hours for recertifcation. Current qualifications cannot be more than 6 months expired if attempting to renew after the expiration date. Students must be present for all 24 hours to receive credit. Upon completion participants will receive a renewed Wilderness First Responder or Wilderness EMT qualification from the National Association for Search and Rescue.

Wilderness First Aid Refresher: This 8 hour course is a scenario based learning exercise. You will be challenged to reapply skills, assessment techniques, and decision making processes learned in your initial course to complete the scenarios. Current qualifications cannot be more than 6 months expired if attempting to renew after the expiration date. Students must be present for all 8 hours to receive credit. Upon completion participants will receive a renewed Wilderness First Aid qualification from the National Association for Search and Rescue.

NASAR Introduction to Search and Rescue: The Introduction to Search and Rescue (ISAR)/SARTECH III course is designed to provide knowledge concerning the general responsibilities, skills, abilities, and the equipment needed by persons who would be participating in a search or rescue mission. The course is based around rural and wilderness environments but the material is recommended as a base of knowledge for all SAR environments.
ISAR/SARTECH III is the first course in a stepping stone approach to higher level NASAR courses of training for emergency personnel. It provides a common starting point in training for the new person to SAR and in many cases, an excellent refresher course for the more experience SAR worker. This common starting point provides continuity during SAR operations and future training of all team members. This is a 16 hour training program.

NASAR Fundamentals of Search & Rescue: The Fundamentals of Search and Rescue (FUNSAR) course is the second, intermediate level of NASAR courses. It provides knowledge concerning the general responsibilities, skills, abilities, and the equipment needed by persons who are assigned to field operations during a SAR mission. The FUNSAR course also provides the student with practical exercises in addition to a practice search mission where the students are required to have the proper equipment and stay out in the field during daylight and night time operations. The course content includes topics in three major areas: survival, support, search and rescue. This course is based around the rural and wilderness environments but the material is recommended as a basis for all SAR environments. FUNSAR provides a common point in training for the new person to SAR and allows them to accumulate the required clothing and equipment needed for SAR operations in their community. The course also provides practical experience during simulated SAR operations and in many cases is an excellent refresher course for the more experienced SAR worker. This common starting point provides continuity during SAR operations and future training of all team members. This is a 40 hour training program.

NASAR Advanced Search & Rescue: Advanced Search and Rescue (ADSAR) is a NASAR course designed to educate the experienced field searcher in preparation for working as a crew leader on a search. This course expands on the knowledge and skills taught in the intermediate level FUNSAR course. Beginning with expanded management concepts, crew tactics, crew and SAR dog tactics, crew safety skills and continuing through stress management, the course focuses on the added responsibility of a crew leader and how this relates to the crewmembers, search managers, and the outcome of the search. The ADSAR text and course materials were developed by a committee of experienced SAR personnel from throughout the nation. The ADSAR course contains valuable information that can be used in many aspects of search response and contains information not found in other search courses. This is a 36 hour training program.

NASAR Certification Exams: Once completed with the appropriate level of training, the candidate will then be eligible for SARTECH certification testing. We offer written and practical evaluation of SARTECH III, SARTECH II, & SARTECH I.

Wilderness Search Team Leader Course: This is a classroom / field based 5-day training course that is designed to prepare team leaders for the challenges and how to be effective in the field environment. This course is designed as a technician level team leader program, which builds team dynamics. It consists of both classroom as well as practical field instruction, with an emphasis on team skills, team building, and team management. This team leader initial training program educates candidate team leaders to effectively manage a team, mentor basic, intermediate, and advanced level team members, and to manage search operations and team operations. The successful candidate can will be prepared to face the various challenges of managing a search team in the field.

NAEMT TCCC: Tactical Combat Casualty Care course introduces evidence-based, life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield, under the auspices of the PHTLS program. It is the only TCCC course endorsed by the American College of Surgeons.This course teaches the very basic concepts that the military and TEMS medics operate by. This is a 2 day classroom intensive course.

NAEMT TECC: The Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) program is based on the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and meets the guidelines established by the Committee on Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (Co-TECC). The course teaches civilian tactical EMS; any EMS practitioner called upon to respond to a mass casualty or active shooter event.

NAEMT AMLS: Advanced Medic Life Support is the leading prehospital advanced medical assessment and treatment program that offers a "think outside the box" diagnosis methodology and is endorsed by the National Association of EMS Physicians.

NAEMT LEFR-TCC: Law Enforcement First Response Tactical Casualty Care teaches public safety first responders including police, other law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders the basic medical care interventions that will help save an injured responder's life until EMS practitioners can safely enter a tactical scene. It combines the principles of PHTLS and TCCC, and meets the recommendations of the Hartford Consensus document and TECC guidelines.

NAEMT TCCC All Combatants / Trauma First Responder: TCCC All Combatants teaches public safety first responders including police, other law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders and the lay person the basic medical care interventions that will help save an injured person's life until EMS practitioners can safely enter a tactical scene. It combines the principles of PHTLS and TCCC, and meets the recommendations of the Hartford Consensus document and TECC guidelines.

NAEMT Prehospital Trauma Life Support: PHTLS is the world’s premier prehospital trauma education developed in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons to promote critical thinking in addressing multi-system trauma and provide the latest evidence-based treatment practices.

NAEMT B-CON: Bleeding Control for the Injured (B-Con) teaches participants the basic life-saving medical interventions, including bleeding control with a tourniquet, bleeding control with gauze packs or topical hemostatic agents, and opening an airway to allow a casualty to breathe. The course is designed for NON tactical law enforcement officers, firefighters, security personnel, teachers and other civilians requiring this basic training.

NAEMT EMS Safety Course: NAEMT’s EMS Safety course teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. It promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues, and provides participants with a forum to share their own experiences. Critical thinking stations help build participants’ risk assessment and decision-making skills.

NAEMT All Hazards Disaster Response: The All Hazards Disaster Response (AHDR) course teaches students how to respond to the many types of disaster scenarios they may encounter, including natural disasters and infrastructure failings, fires and radiological events, pandemics, active shooter incidents, and other mass casualty events. AHDR educates participants on how to analyze potential threats in their area, assess available resources, and

create a response plan that will save lives.

Tactical Casualty Care for Teachers: This course is a derivative of TECC and designed to train school faculty & teachers life saving treatments if they ever find themselves in an active shooter situation. Training covers tourniquet use, rapid assessments, and improvised care.

Price: $350 per 25 faculty

ICS NIMS 300 & 400: Courses are taught for any group, agency, or team. These programs teach how to apply the incident command system to large scale incidents.

AHA Courses: Sergeant Rescue is currently able to instruct Healthcare Provider CPR, Lay person CPR, Child and Infant CPR, and first aid.

Marksmanship / Tactical Shooting: SRTC is able to offer a wide variety of training in this area. Ranging from basic marksmanship techniques to reflexive fire and other tactical shooting drills. We also are able to provide in-depth CQB & MOUT training. Please contact us for pricing and more information.

Paramedic / EMT Refresher Courses: Our refresher courses exceed the NCCP care and refresher guidelines. They are accredited refresher courses with the PA Department of Health and will provide all of the necessary PA State Coned Hours in addition to the NCCP Refresher's required hours. You can also use our refreshers to renew critical and or wanted certifications such as PHTLS, AMLS, and WFA.

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Rope Rescue Courses: Our instructional team is able to provide comprehensive and challenging rope rescue certification courses and refresher training. We are able to offer Rope Technician, Rope Operations, Rope Awareness, Basic Ropes & Rigging, and Advanced Ropes & Rigging training programs.

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