Lone Star Medics - TacMed EDC

This course is specifically designed to teach the legally armed civilian how to identify and treat immediate life-threatening injuries sustained during a violent attack to themselves or their friends or loved ones. Throughout the class, students will learn via hands-on skills practice, scenario-based training, and minimal lectures. Scenarios will be conducted using inert training aids such as blue guns/knives.

Here are some of the subjects covered in class:

- Medical legal issues

- Tactical medicine principles

- Patient drags and carries

- Patient assessment techniques

- Hemorrhage control techniques

o Tourniquets

o Pressure Dressings

o Hemostatic Agents

- Identify and treat penetrating chest trauma

- Identify and treat for shock

- Medical equipment selection and carry techniques for EDC

Lone Star Medics – Caleb Causey

Caleb Causey has spent over 20 years in the field and tactical medical industry. He started his career riding out with MedStar ambulance services in Fort Worth Texas; as part of the Boy Scouts of America’s Explorer program at the age of 16. After high school he joined the U.S. Army as a Combat Medic. Caleb has participated in multiple deployments to various locations in the Balkans; where he has worked as a line medic with the 82nd Airborne Division and in the ER of the 212 MASH (Wiesbaden, Germany). He especially enjoyed his duty as an OPFOR Medic while stationed in Louisiana. After serving his country, he joined the City of Benbrook’s Fire Department and served there as a volunteer Firefighter/EMT. Over the next several years Causey was involved with the department’s MICU crews, engine and ladder companies, and worked as the primary SWAT Medic with the Benbrook Police Department’s SWAT team. Mr. Causey has worked with multiple Private Military/Security Companies. Caleb completed Paramedic school in College Station, Texas. This is where he attained his American Heart Association’s BLS Instructor, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support certifications, Heartsaver Instructor, and Emergency Medical Services Instructor for the state of Texas. He has also held both credentials as provider and instructor for Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care’s TCCC program and is proud to be an instructor for the national Stop The Bleed Campaign. Caleb has proven to have a true passion for learning medicine and teaching medicine to people of all walks of life. Most of his classes are full of knowledge, experience, and laughter.