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Schulz, Are your SERT medics armed for their own protection? Regards Matt

I really think that before you start deciding on what the skill set should be with regard to the police tactical teams and whether or not there is a need for any thing more than basic first aid you should look at the average time delay from injury to hands on by the ambulance service. In the...

Anecdotal accounts are one thing but is there any hard evidence around the time taken from injury to the time the time EMS gets hands on the patient during swat team deployments? Furthermore is there any evidence in relation to unarmed tactical medics moving forward to manage casualties while...

So if you are doing it unarmed how do you go about getting access to the patient? My reasons for asking are simply this. In the team I work for, we will assign EMS to the nearest point of safety with strict rules that they don't move until we call them. When it goes wrong it is down to the...

In the UK, tactical medicine is in its infancy. I would be really interested to here the views of those who are involved in providing an EMS response to swat team deployments. Are you doing it armed? If not, has it been tested i.e when the bullets are flying. In the UK we do not let EMS into the...