Language: DEU, EN

Leadership: BwKrhs Hamburg

Supporter: OFA Dr. Jan Bräunig, OFA Harrs, OSA Dr. Steidl

This workshop offers an opportunity to train a variety of techniques for airway management, with the latest devices on different mannequins. This includes extraglottic devices, direct- and video- laryngoscopic intubation, even under difficult conditions like bleeding or aspiration, fiberoptic-assisted intubation and emergency front of neck access (cricothyreotomy) in case of a "can’t intubate, can't oxygenate" (CICO) situation. Our goal is to enable participants to secure patients' airway according to algorithm in a deployed setting as well as in a civilian environment.

Location: Große Grotte

Participant maximum: 30

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Language: DEU (English-Speakers are welcome)

Leadership: OFA Dr. Mario Steinbach (Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Ulm)

Target audience: Medics from Police or Military Forces and EMS Personnel

Goal and Contents of the Workshop: The basics of surgical wound management are the building blocks for the treatment of any kind of wound. No matter if we find ourselves in a prolonged field care scenario, a prolonged casualty care situation or at limited medical evacuation options due to high enemy pressure. If the intention is to keep a soldier with minor injuries on mission or just to establish temporary stabilization until a higher treatment facility can be reached. It is essential to be able to assesse wounds correctly and then be able to treat correctly with the material and options at hand. In this workshop general options of wound treatment and closure will be presented and the attendees are given the oportunity to try and train them.

Location: Schöne Lau

Participant maximum: 12

Language: EN

This work shop will be led by Dr. Chance Spalding, a U.S. based trauma surgeon with extensive experience using both complete and partial REBOA. The course includes case-based presentation of REBOA best practices and hands-on training and practice as well as both ER-REBOA for complete aortic occlusion and pREBOA-PRO, a next-generation catheter to perform true partial REBOA in simulated casualties, and review of consensus guidelines for complete and partial REBOA.

Location: Rusenschloss

Participant maximum: 12

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Language: EN + DEU

Leadership: International Special Training Center Pfullendorf

Supporter: Dr. Tim Merriam (TCCC Swiss), AusBZSpezLOpTCCC Pfullendorf, 5./Fallschirmjägerregiment 31

Target audience: All CMC participants
Workshop intent: Emphasize the importance of basic skills and a hands-on approach
Workshop goal: Knock off the “rust”, and train the MARCH algorithm
Workshop content: demonstration, hands-on training, feedback and discussion

Location: Outdoor Area

Participant maximum: 16

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Language: EN (German-Speakers are welcome)

Leadership: Jo-Anne Brenner , EMT-I, EMT-T
K9 MEDIC® Executive Director, Founder

Supporter:
Tammy Vretis, DVM
K9 MEDIC® Instructor/Advisor
Medical Director Center for Tactical Medicine

Jim Vretis, DO, FAAEM, FAEMS
K9 MEDIC® Instructor/Advisor
Medical Director Center for Tactical Medicine

Tomasz Stępień
K9 MEDIC® Instructor/Advisor/Affiliate Owner and founder of FEN K9 MED®

OSV David Jäger (Schule für Diensthundewesen der Bundeswehr)
OF Lee Mai (Schule für Diensthundewesen der Bundeswehr)
Landeskriminalamt M-V, SEK

This hands-on skills-based workshop provides the foundations that enable you to extend your existing TCCC skills to canine patients Topics include:
• Canine medical handling, including when and how to use a muzzle
• Why tourniquets are ineffective for dogs and what to use instead
• Intubation for dogs (and why King LT airways are ineffective)
• XXT™ eXternal eXtraction Technique for the removal of ball airway hazards
• How anatomical differences in the canine mediastinum changes Tension Pneumothorax presentation and intervention (and how to modify your skill set accordingly)
• IV/IO Fluid administration: doses, endpoints, and skills
• Why heat is the leading cause of preventable deaths in canines and what you can do about it

Location: Outdoor Area

Participant maximum: 18

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Language: EN, DEU

In this workshop, trainers for tactical life savers will have the opportunity to experience cutting edge technology for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training and contribute own ideas for future developments. ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH is currently developing a modern training solution to train TCCC in mixed reality. With this system, trainees can train according to TCCC principles in a virtual environment yet using their own hands and real equipment and interacting with real persons who have simulated wounds.

After a brief introduction and demonstration of the equipment, participants will get the opportunity to try out the system themselves. During the workshop, participants can adopt different roles: the tactical life saver (trainee), the wounded person and the observer (trainer). Meanwhile participants are encouraged to ask questions, make suggestions, rate the practicability and usefulness of the system for future TCCC training and propose improvements. In the end, the participants’ feedback will be summarized in form of quantitative and qualitative questionnaires.
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Location: Glasfels

Participant maximum: 8

Language: EN

Infectious disease associated with urban warfare and low-intensity conflict such as the recent Ukrainian war strain the abilities of military medicine. Additionally, the expansion of military deployments in Africa and other locations with significant tropical and infectious diseases are causing the deployed medic to see an increase in infectious diseases in their units and in friendly host-nation militaries. Team medics need enhanced training and experience in assessing and managing diseases of operational importance.
According to Leggat (2010), vector-borne diseases are a significant concern during military deployments. The most threatening is malaria followed by arboviral diseases and more recently leishmaniasis and Covid-19. Additional concerns are common problems such as diarrhoeal and other infectious diseases.
The recent emergence of urban warfare and low-intensity conflict in Ukraine has created additional problems for the deployed medic working in improvised ICUs and casualty collection points. Infectious disease including Covid-19 is a risk for these temporary clinics where ventilation and optimal working spaces are limited.
This discussion will include tropical and infectious diseases of operational importance and current research on portable laboratory diagnostics based on smartphone technology.

Location: Blaufels

Participant maximum: 20

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Language: DEU (English-Speakers are welcome)

Traumatic injuries and wounds in the facial region continue to present an extremely threatening situation that is in urgent need of treatment. This workshop was designed to teach important immediate measures for severe facial and jaw injuries. These include options for temporary stabilisation, splinting and above all to stop the bleeding.

Dental problems and trauma can also lead to reduced performance in the field, the loss of personnel and repatriation. The workshop provides simple recommendations for therapy and analgesia to preserve and to re-establish mission readiness.

Location: kleine Grotte

Participant maximum: 20

Language: DEU

Location: Weißer Jura

Lead: Carsten Dombrowski

Participant maximum: 12

Language: DEU + EN

In this workshop, various methods of pre-hospital treatment of bleeding are shown and practiced. The participants rotate through following stations:
Tourniquet
The variety of tourniquets
Packing
Facial bleeding
Abdominal tourniquet
Wound dressing

Location: Blautopf

Lead: Daniel Redmer

Participant maximum: 50

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Language: DEU (English-Speakers are welcome)

This workshop presents different options how to prepare larger groups of wound-actors or training models quickly and efficiently. In addition to commercial moulages, do-it-yourself solutions will be shown.

Location: Outdoor Area

Lead: Angelika Androsch

Support: Erler-Zimmer, Torsten Seipel

Participant maximum: 15

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Language: EN, DEU

This session will provide military care providers with an actionable understanding of lung-protective ventilation (LPV) and how to initiate and manage patients in the field following standard of care, this includes:

1. The underlying principles of LPV
2. How to manage oxygenation
3. Initiation of LPV based on patient predicted bodyweight (PBW) incl. Initiation of LPV with pediatric patients
4. Ventilator management for prolonged field care
5. Using a ventilator and O2 concentrator
6. Hands-on workshop using a ventilator and O2 concentrator.

Course objectives:
Knowledge of the principles of LPV, its implementation in all patient populations, and the preparation and use of an oxygen concentrator ventilator.

Course instructors:
The didactic portion of the course will be presented by clinicians with both military and civilian experience in mechanical ventilation in both German and English. The hands-on workshop will include a multilingual team of instructors with operational experience from various NATO countries.

Target Audience:
The workshop is intended primarily for NATO Special Operations Combat Medics (NSCOM), paramedics, and physicians without intensive care or anesthesiology backgrounds. https://www.zoll.com/de

Location: Outdoor Area

Referenten:
DE Bernhard Abouid
DE Frank Kretzschmar
DE Julian Küpperbusch
US Brian Harvey
US Michael Wagner

Support: ZOLL Dieter Jadwiczek

Participant maximum: 15

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Language: EN

The workshop is designed specifically and exclusively for SOF personnel who find themselves in a situation where they have to transport wounded patients over a vertical ledge without access to adequat material. The goal is to not be unprepared but to improvise with unconventional techniques and on-hand material in order to successfully complete one's assignment. The workshop is designed as an interactive demonstration. The techniques are shown and actively carried out by the participants. SOF membership will have to be verified on-site. The person in charge for the workshop reserves the right to prohibit participation.

Location: Outdoor Area

Lead: Axel Manz

Participant maximum: 12

Language: DEU

Target-Audience: all medical personnel (EMS, Military, Police)
Workshop goals: To gain an insight into the CBRN MED = (MARCHE)² and how the tactical medic approaches a poisoned, traumatically injured casualty
Workshop content: The first part of the workshop consist of a theoretical seminar where the (MARCHE)² will be reviewed. Potential way-of-action-algorithms will be demonstrated. The system performance will be shown practically as a tactical “sand-table”-simulation. In the second part the aforementioned theoretical approach can be practically trained and performed by the attendees in a scenario-based run.
Disclaimer: all participants should carry their unit-specific CBRN gear. If none is available, certain sets will be provided. Train as you fight.

Location: Outdoor Area

Participant maximum: 10

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Language: EN, DEU

The workshop offers participants the opportunity to gain first insights into virtual reality (VR) simulation trainings and to try it out for themselves (selected VR Trainings from the VALOR Curriculum developed by the US Air Force). Col. John R. Dorsh and Dr. Mark Weinert will give a brief introduction to the status quo as well as future developments of immersive technologies and share their practical experiences with medical VR trainings. On this basis, the potentials and limitations of virtual reality medical training for the military will be addressed. https://www.simxvr.com/

Location: Outdoor Area

Lead: Theda Ockenga

Participant maximum: 20