Level 1 - Self Responder - Myrtle Beach, SC - 9/26/2025

SELF RESPONDER 

The threat has been neutralized and people are bleeding out, what do you do?
 
Self Responder is a trauma centric first aid course that will teach you the skills needed to save your life and the lives of others after a potentially fatal incident. Traumatic injury is one of the leading causes of death for people under 50 in the US. A significant portion of those deaths are from severe bleeding – a preventable cause of death due to trauma. This class will use simunition pistols and moulage to simulate scenario based training. This is a scenario based course. 
 
This course is meant for participants of all skill and fitness levels. Firearms, live weapons, or blades are not required for this course.
 
Please thoroughly review the following website and all skills modules prior to coming to class. DEPLOYED MEDICINE SITE

 
WHAT WE’LL COVER/WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Manage an over act of violence immediately after the threat is neutralized.
• Take up a tactical position in order to protect yourself and others in a war zone
• Perform a hasty triage and control a frantic crowd
• Use an individual first aid kit and identify any nearby tools to assist you in bleeding control
• Learn to use direct pressure, dressings, and tourniquets to stop bleeding
• Treat a penetrating chest trauma
• Pack a deep wound with cloth or gauze to control bleeding
• Administration of an Epinephrine Pen and Nasal Narcan
• Treat for and prevent shock

WHAT TO BRING

IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit) or at minimum:

• 1 pressure dressing (Israeli bandage or similar) 
• 1 roll of ACE type bandage 
• 1 Tourniquet (CAT/SOFT/SAMS or similar) 
• 1 Chest seal (Halo or silmilar) 
• 1 pack of gauze 
• 1 hemostatic agent (Hemcon/Quickclot/Celox)