Designed for ordinary citizens, Disaster First Aid will enable anyone to respond to multi-casualty emergencies with the same critical first-actions that Firefighters and Paramedic First Responders use, adapted to the citizen's level of ability and resources.

In a medical crisis, Time is often the deciding factor between life or death. With these clear short formulas and hands-on skills, any average person could make the critical difference.

Disaster First Aid contains ONLY essentials. It covers injuries and conditions expected to occur in large numbers in a severe emergency such as major earthquake, terrorist attack, massive explosion, or structure collapse.

These are the actions needed to save lives and prevent the worsening of injury. They can be done by the average person, with emphasis on the rescuer/helper’s own safety, which is always first-priority.

You will learn to use *S.T.A.R.T. rapid triage to identify who needs help first. You will learn how to keep yourself and others alive and viable until professional help comes, which will help them to save the savable lives in a large-scale disaster when 911 resources are overwhelmed and unable to respond immediately to all the areas needing immediate help.

You will learn how to prevent the preventable deaths, control bleeding, treat trauma injuries and incipient shock, and how to improvise splint and bandage materials from common things you find in your environment. You will learn and practice the simple but crucial skills and information that enable you to do all that anyone could do in the same situation.

Our program users include Schools, Colleges, Corporations and Small Businesses, CERT training programs, and community organizations of all sizes and kinds

Ultimately, what's in your mind will be much more important than what's in your First Aid kit, and your mind is always with you.

You can be a part of the Help, instead of the Helpless.

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