Humanitarian Mine Action Team Medics Course
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for anyone who works within the EOD sector, but it especially caters for Medics and First Aiders on demining sites and remote locations. The Medicine in Remote Areas Course (MIRA Extended) has been developed to provide students with the specific skills and knowledge to be able to deal with casualties where there is an increased risk of blast injuries. This could be in the demining sector, explosive ordnance disposal or even terrorism. The course encompasses immediate stabilisation of the injured or acutely ill patient and provides the underpinning knowledge and skills required to provide prolonged field care in remote and challenging environments if necessary. The course also promotes for knowledge to be passed on to the rest of your team as part of the self-help phase of medical evacuation. Every team member should have at least a basic understanding of first aid even if it is not his job role specifically as he may still be asked to assist if the medical team is dealing with other casualties or indeed incapacitated themselves.
Is this course recognized Globally?
The MIRA courses endorsed and certified by the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), and is specifically designed for those providing medical care in austere and hostile environments including medical support for humanitarian demining operations, disaster relief and humanitarian organisations, mountain rescue, and search and rescue personnel, the oil/gas industry, the media industry, expeditionary and exploration personnel.
Included in the core syllabus
MAT Kosovo and Iqarus have jointly established this course to bring both the medical and demining professionals together to give students the best possible learning experience. Iqarus has been at the cutting-edge of clinical learning for complex and demanding operating environments for years having been formerly known as Ex Med.
We leverage our exceptional training facilities, personnel, on- and offline training methodologies and intellectual content to enable teams and individuals to operate confidently in a variety of situations. Our training and operational team are drawn from the medical, military, security and energy sector communities, giving us a unique integrated capability and skill mix. Our training personnel maintain clinical and operational currency is providing live medical support to clients’ international projects as well as delivering training, internationally and in multiple languages. Created by Iqarus in 2004, the MIRA (Medicine in Remote Areas) course provides participants, with or without experience, in pre-hospital care with the added skills and knowledge to be able to deal with the causalities in a remote environment. The course structure is focused on providing the student with the fundamental and achievable practical skills and critical analysis required to manage a casualty throughout the entire pathway of pre-hospital care where a prolonged delay in evacuation to definitive care is anticipated. This is especially pertinent to the demining industry where often delays in evacuation are expected due to the safety considerations for the rest of the team.
The syllabus includes the following:
- Management of blunt trauma, blast and penetrating injuries, road traffic collisions, ballistics and violent assaults.
- Oxygen therapy.
- Intermediate and advanced airway management, including performing and assisting surgical airway procedures as appropriate to the students’ scope of practice.
- Life-threatening chest injuries and their management including performing and supporting needle decompression procedures as appropriate to the students’ scope of practice.
- Circulatory system and haemorrhage control.
- Shock and fluid replacement (I.V & I.O).
- Head injury recognition and management.
- Pharmacology appropriate to the trainee’s scope of practice.
- Medical emergencies.
- Musculoskeletal injuries, fractures and dislocations.
- Burns and scalds, environmental injuries and illnesses.
- Environmental injuries and illnesse.
- Flora and fauna injuries and tropical diseases.
- Tropical Diseases
- Remote area and prolonged patient care.
- Wound lavage, wound care and wound closure techniques appropriate to the students’ scope of practice.
- Emergency medical treatment in the de-mining lane.
- Mass casualty and major Incident management, including scene management, triage, treatment and evacuation.
- The physics of blast and the affects it has on the body.
- Self-help encompassing passing on relevant medical knowledge to the rest of the team in order to work together for the best outcomes for the casualties.