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Preparing individuals and groups to stay alive in austere environments.

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Code 3 Medical Services has first hand experience with Urban Search & Rescue and Wilderness Medicine in our fulltime professions as firefighters, rescue teams, and as educators. Outside of our professional experience, we are avid outdoorsmen that spend extensive time scuba diving, hiking, camping, overlanding, and just about anything that revolves around the outdoors. There is a reason we teach at some of the largest Overlanding conferences in North America as well as physicians, surgeons, military, wildland firefighters, and other outdoor rescue professionals that are responsible for critical medical care while in remote and austere environments.

Class/Training Options

Wilderness Survival & First Aid 101

o Certification: None
o Time: 8Hrs
o Prerequisite: None
o Adult CPR/AED 2 Year National Certification is included.

This is the perfect class for those who are looking to get a fundamental understanding of wilderness/natural disaster survival and first aid for when things go bad. The class covers basic survival concepts while in the wilderness or natural disaster situations along with basic first aid concepts. How and what to build as far as a medical kit as well as building your basic wilderness survival or bug out bag in order to increase your chances of survival. From gear to methodologies, this class is great for those who do not know where to start when it comes to wilderness or natural disaster survival. From gear to hands on skills, you will leave with a solid foundation on what to do when the unexpected arises.

Basic Wilderness First Aid

o Certification: Accredited 2 Year National Certification
o Time: 16Hrs (2 Days)
o Prerequisite: None
o Hybrid Course Coming Soon!
o Adult CPR/AED Certification is also included with our Basic Wilderness First Aid class.

The best and most comprehensive course of its kind to offer relevant and realistic first-aid training for seasonal outdoor activities or short term wilderness endeavors and pursuits. Wilderness environments create special situations not usually encountered in an urban or suburban environment. With the Wilderness First Aid class, first aid providers in a remote outdoor setting will be better prepared to respond with wilderness first aid training when faced with limited resources, longer times to care for someone, and decisions about when and how fast to evacuate an ill or injured person. This comprehensive 16-hour wilderness first aid course meets or exceeds the Boy Scouts of America Wilderness First Aid Curriculum and Doctrine Guidelines, 2017 Edition. It is targeted to the outdoor enthusiast on day trips or short adventures. The course is taught by professional instructors with significant patient care and backcountry experience.

Advanced Wilderness First Aid

o Certification: 2 Year Code 3 Medical Services Certification
o Time: 16Hrs (2 Days)
o Prerequisite: Wilderness Basic First Aid

An entry-level course designed for professionals working in significantly remote settings for days or weeks or for the civilian that wants to expand on their basic wilderness first aid certification. Wilderness Advanced First Aid is comprehensive medical training designed for remote professionals or wilderness leaders who venture into remote and challenging environments. This course teaches how to manage medical emergencies when hospitals and rescue services may not be available for an extensive time period. We prepare students for emergency situations that involve prolonged patient care in remote environments with improvised equipment. This class adds disciplines such as shelter building, water purification, self rescue options, suturing/stitching, as well as other critical elements directed to not only patient care, but also basic survival skills. This class is an absolute must for those that may find themselves in austere environments with the potential for things to go bad and limited on hand resources.

Wilderness First Responder

o Certification: 3 Year Code 3 Medical Services Certification
o Time: 72-80Hrs (6-7 Days)
o Prerequisite: None
o Hybrid Course Coming Soon!
o 2 Year Certification in Adult CPR/AED is also included

The Wilderness First Responder certification is the recognized industry standard for people who work or have a leadership role in remote environments including wilderness guides and trip leaders, camp counselors, research expedition members, and search and rescue team members. Topics in the 80-hour class will include: patient assessment, how to provide long-term care with limited resources, the decision of when to call for help, and treatments such as splinting, burn care, broken bones, dislocations, managing spine injuries, and wound suturing/stitching/stapling to name a few. This class will also cover wilderness survival skills such as improvised shelters, water purification techniques, food preparation, fire building, basic land navigation, and personal defense. The course in a mix of classroom time, as well as extensive hands-on skills practice through medical scenarios and labs. Final skills testing will involve intensive day and night scenarios where patient care and personal survival skill sets learned will be applied.

Wilderness Advanced Life Support

o Coming soon

You are on your own

When nobody is there to save you

Whether it be to another remote wilderness, a natural disaster, or traveling in the country. When something bad medically happens in those environments, immediate life saving action could very well mean the difference between life and death of yourself, a loved one, or an innocent human being. Having a basic medical kit is simply not enough as without the proper training, the medical kit becomes useless. Medical skill sets are perishable as adjuncts and treatment processes change on a regular basis and if one does not practice, the efficiency and confidence to act diminishes at a time when seconds matter. Code 3 Medical Services Wilderness and Survival programs teach civilians all the way to physicians, surgeons, and emergency response professionals the skills needed when help is going to be delayed or possibly not coming. We have different life saving programs geared towards basic certifications to professional level credentialing to meet your specific needs.

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Here are a few facts relating to
Sudden Cardiac Arrest per the AHA:

WHY LEARN CPR?

Cardiac arrests are more common than you think, and they can happen to anyone at any time.

• Nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur annually, and 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home.
• Many victims appear healthy with no known heart disease or other risk factors.
• Sudden cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack.
• Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when electrical impulses in the heart become rapid or chaotic, which causes the heart to suddenly stop beating.
• A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle is blocked. A heart attack may cause cardiac arrest.

WHO CAN YOU SAVE WITH CPR?

The life you save with CPR is most likely to be a loved one.

• Nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur annually, and 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home.
• Many victims appear healthy with no known heart disease or other risk factors.
• Sudden cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack.
• Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when electrical impulses in the heart become rapid or chaotic, which causes the heart to suddenly stop beating.
• A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle is blocked. A heart attack may cause cardiac arrest.

WHY TAKE ACTION?

• Failure to act in a cardiac emergency can lead to unnecessary deaths.
• Effective bystander CPR provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival, but only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander.
• Sadly, less than eight percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive.

At Code 3 Medical Services, we have custom training programs to accommodate your specific work or school environment. Our cadre of instructors are seasoned professional first responders with large entities that have accumulated years of experience dealing with trauma, medical emergencies, and terrorism response. Code 3 Medical Services offers single day and multiple day training programs anywhere in the United States. From standard certified training classes that meet OSHA requirements to custom training programs such as Active Shooter First Aid, we can meet your workplace safety and first aid needs. For customized training quotes or additional information, contact us via email at [email protected]

Client Testimonials

What They Say

Lee is a true professional with a passion for health, safety, education, and training. The attention to detail and emphasis on extending the topic beyond simple academic principles by way of real world examples and demonstrations really bring the content to a level understood by all. I would highly recommend Lee for any and all public safety training needs.

I trust Code 3 Medical Services 100%! They have provided the absolute best medical training that I have personally had the privilege to attend. There is a reason me and our emergency response team have been using them for over 8 years straight. Nothing else comes close as far as passion, dedication, and teaching style.

I had the pleasure of taking a class with Lee. His knowledge of the subject matter and his ability to convey that knowledge were exceptional. He and his team do a great job of developing students and pushing them to their limits with very "outside the box" methodologies. He is attentive to the needs of everyone regardless of their ability. I plan to train with Lee again in the future and I will recommend his classes to my own students.

Thanks to Lee and Code 3 Medical and Safety Services for providing a stellar HazMat Technician training to 3M's Emergency Response Team last fall! The hands-on application of the chemistry material made it easy for employees at all levels to understand. The instructor brought well versed, practical experience to the team and taught concepts with just the right amount of detail and hands-on to complement the training. I definitely recommend Code 3 to anyone in the industry interested in taking their training to the next level.

Code 3 Medical Services is the epitome of effective, personalized, and comprehensive medical and safety training. I was immensely captivated by how adeptly they listen, shaping each lesson to cater to learners' unique needs and queries. The team enlightened me with profound medical knowledge, outdoor survival tactics, and essential life skills, demonstrated with practicality and precision. Most notably, the approachable and relatable demeanor of the instructors made the learning process seamless, as they explain complex subjects in ways that were effortlessly understandable.

In my 30 years as an EMT and emergency response team manager of a fortune 500 corporation, I have not experienced anything that comes close to what Code 3 Medical Services provides as far as training and education. The staff at Code 3 Medical are knowledgeable, professional, experienced and provide top tier reality based training. Their hands on scenarios are the best I have experienced in my 30 years as an EMT and Emergency Responder. You will not regret having Code 3 Medical in to teach your response members and raise the level of proficiency and confidence potential of your team. Code 3 Medical Services never disappoints!

When I was asked to provide training to an operations group for medical services, I didn’t know much about it. I decided to try out this guy named Lee and went to his 40-hour emergency medical responder class. I was absolutely amazed at the training. I’d thought I’d be bored to tears with power point and still not know what to do in a real situation. However, I soon realized the class was practical, hands on, and these guys knew what they were talking about. I went back to my operations group and told them about the class, a lot of them with decades of medical training, and they wanted to see it. I brought Lee’s group into my plant for operations EMR training. Operations guys with years and years of experience learned a lot and told me it was the best class for medical training they ever had. I highly recommend this company for any safety professional looking for a medical instructor for EMR training of your emergency response team.

I have had the distinct honor of knowing Lee Vernon the last several years and have watched, with rapt attention, him growing his business within our industry, which is a very difficult thing to do as our industry can sometimes eat their own. He rises above that, both personally and professionally. His level of integrity coupled with his passion for teaching makes him a dynamic duo embodied in one man. He's serious about getting the word out on how to not only protect yourself but those that you care for. I was recently honored to work alongside him in a "combo" class. I will say this, the synergy we experienced while teaching together was nothing short of amazing and unheard of. No egos, no pontification. Just 2 guys who believe in what they do, meshing the curriculum so solidly that you'd have thought that we had all been teaching together for years. That's the way it's supposed to be done and Lee does that well, many times over.

My site's emergency response team has been working with Code 3 Medical for all of our medical response training for almost a decade. Lee and his team have been an extremely valuable piece of our team's capability to provide quality medical care whenever we're called upon. Code 3's approach and versatility to what they teach and how they teach it have provided our responders with more hands on training in real world simulations than other courses that teach from a book. The knowledge and skillset is top notch from Lee and all of Code 3's instructors. They are in constant contact with us to work on developing new training tactics and ideas to provide base national registry and state requirements while also breaking outside of the box for wilderness medicine, active shooter response, industrial specific scenarios, and much more. Our team wouldn't be where we are today without the dedication of Lee and his team to help us expand our knowledge and skills.