Austere Emergency Care Course

Target Audience: Prehospital professionals and teams seeking to improve their medical skills

Introduction:

Are you ready to face medical emergencies where the usual resources are unavailable? Disasters, remote locations, and mass casualty incidents demand a new level of preparedness. The Austere Emergency Care (AEC) course equips you with the essential skills and knowledge to provide life-saving care in the most challenging circumstances.

Why Austere Emergency Care?

The "Golden Hour" Isn't Always Guaranteed: The reality is, timely transport to definitive care isn't always possible. You need to be ready to manage critical patients for extended periods with limited resources.
Beyond Standard Protocols: This course goes beyond standard protocols and guidelines, teaching you to adapt and improvise in resource-constrained environments. Learn to make critical decisions and provide effective care even when facing limited equipment and medications.
Be a Resource Multiplier: Discover how to leverage the tools, medicine, and resources on hand to deliver the best medical practices possible when immediate hospital access is not available.

What You'll Learn:

Prolonged Field Care (PFC) Principles: Gain a deep understanding of PFC, the art of stabilizing and managing critical patients for extended durations when evacuation is delayed.
Advanced Assessment and Treatment: Master advanced assessment techniques, hemorrhage control methods (including tourniquet conversion), airway management, and pain control strategies relevant to austere environments.
Resourcefulness and Improv: Learn to creatively use available resources and adapt your approach to provide effective care, even when facing limited supplies.
Disaster Response and Mass-Casualty Management: Develop the skills to effectively manage medical emergencies in disaster settings and mass-casualty incidents.
Extended Care: Address infection prevention, wound management, nursing skills, and other considerations that become critical when definitive care is delayed.

Course Highlights:

Online Pre-Work: Easy-to-follow format, with a mix of practical and theory, enhancing your preparedness for the upcoming in-person training.
Hands-On Learning: A mix of lecture presentations, discussions, and engaging practical labs.
Full-Day Live Action Scenario: Realistic situation, treating simulated patients with various medical conditions.
Quality Instructors: Subject matter experts with years of relevant experience, who are passionate about prolonged field care and emergency medicine.
Teamwork: Collaboration with students from different medical backgrounds, working to creatively problem-solve patient treatments and logistics.
Best Practices: Based on peer-reviewed medical best practices, drawing from military Prolonged Field Care (PFC), Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC), and Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) clinical practice guidelines.

Course Benefits:

Enhanced Preparedness: Be ready for any medical emergency, regardless of location or resource availability.
Increased Confidence: Gain confidence and skills to make critical decisions and provide effective care in austere situations.
Professional Advancement: Distinguish yourself as a highly skilled and adaptable EMS professional.
Continuing Education Credits: Earn up to 40 continuing education credits.
- FAWM Credits: The AEC-Advanced course is also eligible for Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) credits.

Course Logistics:

Medical Supplies: All medical supplies required for this course will be provided.
Lodging: Is not provided and will need to be coordinated by the student.
Meals: Are not provided and will need to be coordinated by the student.

Resolute Response Medical Groups’ upcoming Austere Care Course

Location:

Ute Pass Regional Ambulance District
HQ building: 1017 US-24 #2138, Woodland Park, CO, 80863

Dates: February 20 - 23, 2026

Price per person: $1,372.74

Questions? Please contact Rich Salve - rich@r2medgroup.com