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I agree with Armymedic.  After working EMS for several years in a major Canadian city and attending numerous beatings/shootings/stabbings, I have yet to see life threatening bleeding that could not be controlled by direct pressure, pressure points, tourniquets or a combination of the previous...

I see grooming the the people we have as the most cost effective way to manage things.  Funding PCP spots, and running more courses and putting forth a good MCSP program in conert with some local civilian health care facilities would go a long ways towards retaining people then we wouldn't have...

My impression regarding the PRL is that there are no promotions or career courses within the PRL.  My info may be out of date though.

I have used the talon folding litters berfore and they are great.  Fold out and look very similar to our regular litters but just fold up into a nice compact package for storage.  There are also poleless litters out there than are nylon and can be basically rolled up and stashed in a pack, ideal...

Med Corps, Great info in your post above.  I heartily agree with your above post.  I attended some con ed in my civi job last year where a trauma surgeon was talking about the vicious triad of hemodilution, coagulopathy, and hypothermia in regards to zealous fluid resuscitation.  Made for some...

LFWA.  I haven't taken the course but I'd love too.  As far as I know there was one pilot course run by 1 CMBG other than that I'm not sure.

Who will be eligible to teach this course?  Does anyone have links to the training plans and how do we get it up and running in our area?

Further to combat medics post above, I don't think it is inefficent to train medics on soldier skills however the limited time and money available for training makes it extremely difficult.  I agree with paramedtech that soldier skills can likely be refreshed faster for deployment than medical...

Good post Usul.  Just a note on Brassards, on most larger scale exercise scenarios I have been involved with, the higher hq has almost always had the policy of no display of the red cross forward of the BMS.  This seems logical to me and if your BMS is under contact you are in deep do do...

HCA thanks for the info.  Would you be able to give us a brief outline if you have it i.e. how many training days, PO's covered etc.

The lack of kit is something that I think is one of the easiest to remedy.  To do something like say buy brand new kit to outift all the tailgates in the unit would not cost all that much.  If a unit was willing to cancel a couple class A saturdays of training there would be enough money to kit...

How about making PA an officer trade similar to other militaries?  When medics are interested in becoming PA's they apply and if accepted get commisioned as a 2Lt and do direct patient care similar to an MO/NO.  Keep the med tech trade and expand it and add more skills at the QL3/5 level...

I agree that we need to focus on retaining and looking after the medical staff we have.  There is a shortage Canada wide in virtually every health care occupation I can think of off the top of my head.  We are not going to be able to compete with the rest of the private/public sector any time...

An interesting proposal and similar to the one I presented above for an LPN like trade.  I agree with many of the things that you have said, however I disagree about using the reserves as a clinical manpower pool.  There are slowly growing numbers of prehospital professionals coming into the...

Just for my own benefit, could someone outline the current reg force QL5 content or direct me to a link that does? Thanks

I agree with RN PRN, however I think while we're deciding the role of the NO in the CF we also have to clearly define the role of the med tech.  In my opinion, the med tech field is too broad and we are sacrificing being excellent at a couple things for being fair at most things.  I believe...

Roger thanks.

As long as there is no QL5 equivalent course for the reserves, there is little hope of any type of large scale employment of reservists.  At best I think there will be a few amb drivers and maybe QL3 types to fill out a med pl.  While I have civilian PCP qualification and lots of prehospital...

I think the problem with using reservists to backfill is that most of the reservists ( or anyone who isn't a student for that matter) who have civilian qualifications can ill afford the time off work to fill a position for say 2-6 months while someone is on course.  I have a helluva time just...

I think a good example of this type of program is the US Air Force Top Star training run out of St. Louis.  (I forget what the acronym stands for).  It is a two week course where NO/MO/and Med Techs rotate through and each has a different skill set to refresh in.  For example Med Techs do EMT...