EPD Officers Lenny Reed and Ryan Winters attended an accredited, comprehensive, 81-hour tactical medic training program that was created by Cypress Creek EMS. Cypress Creek EMS has a Tactical Medic Team that are highly trained paramedic/police officers who provide operational medical support to public safety agencies during tactical law enforcement operations at the local, state, and federal levels.
The Tactical Medical Training course is in high demand and draws an international audience each year. By training law enforcement officers to a level that would allow advanced medical care to be provided on an immediate basis during high-risk operations could be the difference between life and death.
Officers that receive this training can provide an expanded scope of pre-hospital emergency medicine where it is needed most; in a volatile and uncertain environment, where time of treatment is most critical. In the past, state law prohibited many levels of emergency medical treatment to be performed unless a person had certain certified medical education/training.
Knowing that our local EMS provider will not enter an area if it is deemed unsafe or unstable, which would delay critically needed emergency medical treatment for individuals and due to being involved in high risk incidents during the course of their duties with the EPD, where people suffered from severe injuries, Lenny and Ryan knew that more needed to be offered than just the legally allowed basic treatment options.
Lenny and Ryan started the campaign to bring a higher level of emergency medical care to a tactical incident with their mission of “Bringing good medicine to bad places.â€
Congrats to both these officers. The training they pushed for and helped implement is the main reason that we’ve recently been reading about increased EPD involvement in local trauma runs involving tourniquet use. Training in basic tactical medicine means increased safety for officers and citizens. Good on ’em!
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