OVERVIEW

Austere Emergency Care (AEC) Course is organized by College of Remote and Offshore Medicine (CoROM) and will be held from Mar 13 - 16, 2023 at Horten, Vestfold, Norway.

Description:
The AEC course is a four-day medical training course based on the Prolonged Field Care concepts created by US Special Forces medics. It is designed for medical professionals working in remote, austere and resource-limited environments who might be treating a critical casualty for extended periods of time.

AEC Course Content:
This course builds on the basic concepts of TECC/TCCC. As Sean Keenan is fond of saying, “There is no PFC without TCCC”. This means practitioners taking this course should have a profound understanding of stabilising the critical casualty in austere environments
What is Prolonged Field Care?

What is Prolonged Field Care:
According to this published article, PFC is “field medical care, applied beyond ‘doctrinal planning time-lines by a SOCM (Special Operations Combat Medic) or higher, to decrease patient mortality and morbidity. Utilises limited resources and is sustained until the patient arrives at an appropriate level of care.” This definition necessarily assumes that the care is delivered in an austere or field environment. It also acknowledges that the care is provided outside the planning guidance of the usual medical force structure, and related assumptions cannot be relied on.

What is Austere Emergency Care:
AEC was a natural advancement from PFC. As more and more SOF medical exit the military, they are bringing their PFC expertise into the civilian world. AEC applies the ten core capabilities from PFC and converts them into the standard operating procedures found in local ambulances and aeromedical platforms. AEC add two additional core capabilities that build on the basic concepts of PFC.

AEC Course Content:
• 10 hours of online content
• TECC/TCCC practical scenarios
• Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse scenarios (Cat Haem, Burns, Crush, TBI)
• Austere Clinic Scenarios
• Austere and Prehospital Ultrasound
• Disaster Response Mascal
• Improvised Medicine
• Austere Critical Care
• Round Robin mini-scenarios
• Final day PFC exercise