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Originally Posted by Blackeagle
Most tac med courses aren't trying to teach "everything you need to know", or the equivalent of a full EMT course. They're usually focused on a pretty narrow subset, gunshot and stab wounds, basically.
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True, but merely "plugging a hole" on the surface does nothing. Volume Replacement is everything in trauma. Some paramedics like to play doctor, and be cardiologists. Others of us, like myself, are trauma junkies, enjoying the battlefield medic role more than treating ECG rhythms. Unless someone went into one of these classes with a decent skillset to start with, I can't see that two days is enough to teach anything useful.
I see it as catering to the "Walter Mitty" set. We had cops at my old shop who took 1 and 2 day courses, and to hear them, you would thing they were qualified to do brain surgery under fire. I was a paramedic for 20 years, and there are things I would want a month's training for, before I was comfortable...