Australian Tactical Medical Association

In this episode from #ATMC18 we hear from a good friend of ATMA, Mr Mark Anderson. Mark is on the board for the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC)and is the International Liason for C-TECC. Mark is also the High Threat Response Program Manager - Firefighter/Paramedic for the Bellevue Fire Department in Washington State, USA. In this episode, Mark will present on "Full Spectrum Active Shooter/Hostile Event Preparedness - Thinking beyond the obvious"

In this episode of the ATMA podcast, we bring you Assoc Prof John Moloney (Head of Trauma and Perioperative Anaesthesia at The Alfred in Melbourne Australia) presentation from #ATMC18, where he presented the complex nature of blast injuries, including the physics and mechanics, the likely injury patterns, subsequent management and the challenges faced.

This is a particularly important and informative podcast for all of our military medic listeners and followers. In this presentation, Smiley Billings, a Commando Qualified medic who has multiple deployments with SOCOMD, and who is currently posted to Army School of Health discusses the various options and pathways for military medics to becoming registered as Paramedics with AHPRA. Smiley and Adam Cantrick have been chairing ATMA's Military Medic Working Group to represent the interests of military medics particularly through what can be a confusing and daunting step forward. We hope you enjoy and please feel free to contact us or Smiley and Adam through mmwg@atma.net.au

Senior Constable Dustin Osborne joined the Queensland Police Service (QPS) in 2008 and has since been attached to the Fortitude Valley Police Station as a General Duties Officer. In 2016, Dustin was selected to form part of the Active Armed Offender (AAO) Project Team which was responsible for developing and implementing a skills and tactics training package specific to AAO incident resolution. During the creation of this training, Dustin became a great advocate for casualties of these horrific events and developed a modular dedicated to medical response which was successfully integrated into the AAO curriculum. After the successful implementation of the AAO Project, Dustin continued to strive to raise the operational capabilities and capacity of the QPS to better protect and preserving life by developing and introducing Tactical First Aid Training service-wide. As result, all sworn Officers now receive training and carry equipment necessary for stopping mass haemorrhage, alleviating thoracic trauma and to provide CPR. Dustin has a passion for tactical medicine and continues to develop this area of training for the QPS. Dustin is also a sitting member of Australian Tactical Medical Association, Police Tactical Group Clinical Governance Subcommittee.

In this episode of the ATMA podcast, we bring to you the first from #ATMC18, and what a presentation to start with. First up is Lieutenant Colonel Ethan Miles, LTC Miles has spent over 10 years working as a Battalion and Command Surgeon of the 75th Ranger Regiment and in this presentation, LTC Miles will present "Whole Blood forward! Bringing innovation to the point of injury." - A Command Surgeon perspective on the process of developing and instituting a Whole Blood first Damage Control Resuscitation program in a special operations unit.

This is a first for ATMA and for Tactical Medicine in Australia. We are excited to release our first official podcast. In this website, ATMA President Matt Pepper sits down to have a chat with Adam Davis who is a Paramedic of 10 years working in the Tactical Response Unit with London Ambulance Service, a Senior Lecturer at the St George's University of London and a Combat Medical Tech with the British Army Reserve. They discuss working as a Paramedic with the Tactical Response Unit in the London Ambulance Service and their interprofessional collaboration with the Metropolitan Police Service.