Specialist Major Trauma Management Course for Prison Staff

specialist trauma management prison staff At Speciality Oxygen, we recognise the difficulties and dangers prison officers face on a daily basis. Managing large numbers of potentially volatile inmates remains a challenge at the best of times. In cases where tensions are running high, it falls to the officers to defuse the situation, and to remain vigilant to the risks of spontaneous outbreaks of violence occurring. In certain instances determined and planned attacks may leave the staff or prisoners at risk from catastrophic injuries.

When life threatening injury does occur, standard First Aid Courses are not designed to train staff to deal with them. On occasion, when treatment in the first few minutes can make all the difference between life and death, an ambulance crew may not make it in time – especially if the ambulance crews have to pass through the prison’s security systems in the interim. When a paramedic crew (if there are any available) does arrive, they often don’t have either the necessary training or equipment to save lives. You don’t have to take our word for this, as instructors to the military we have provided advanced training to other specialist civilian groups including firearms officers and Search and Rescue teams who recognise consistent deficiencies in ambulance service responses across the UK.

knife attack The potential to make a difference to survival therefore may lie with the prison staff that are already at the scene. At Speciality Oxygen we know how hard it is to stand and watch somebody die because of a lack of knowledge or suitable equipment – we have witnessed the effects on people numerous times in both civilian and military settings.

The Specialist Major Trauma Management Course for Prison Staff is a vital extension to the regular First Aid at Work courses that exist across the UK. The SMTMC is designed to train staff to recognise and treat the life-threatening traumatic conditions you might encounter during the course of your work. Our instructors are the specialist doctors and paramedics who treat these injuries all of the time. Experts in the field of both military and civilian pre-hospital care, they have and continue to work in some of the busiest and best pre-hospital trauma systems in the World. The credibility of our instructors is of utmost importance to Speciality Oxygen. We do the job for real, we teach specialist military and other personnel from genuine experience rather than teaching from books! Neither are our instructors ex-soldiers with ‘add-on’ medical training – our staff are all doctors and paramedics who are active in pre-hospital trauma care in civilian and military operations.

We are acutely aware of your operating environment and the need for bespoke no-nonsense, relevant and useable training. We teach how to recognise and treat life threatening major trauma as soon as it occurs either to you, your teammates or to prisoners.

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The SMSTC for Prison Staff is an exciting development for the treatment of victims of serious assault. Previously only available to the military and specialist non-military teams, Speciality Oxygen believes we have a moral interest in training other high-risk civilian groups.

We also believe that your employers have an ethical and legal duty of care to you and your prisoners to provide this level of training when it exists, to mitigate the risk of unnecessary death in the event of serious injury occurring.