GUNSHOT • KNIFE WOUND • CATASTROPHIC INJURY RESPONSE COURSE
A 5-Hour Life-Saving Skills Workshop — Taught Once per Month
Saturdays | Hands-On | Open Enrollment Until 24 Hours Before Class
A reality-based first aid training experience that teaches you how to respond decisively to the most severe forms of violence and trauma—gunshots, knife attacks, catastrophic bleeding, airway collapse, shock, and more.
COURSE OVERVIEW
What You Will Learn
How to apply a tourniquet correctly in under 20 seconds to stop life-threatening bleeding.
How to pack a wound to control junctional bleeding where a tourniquet cannot be used.
How to open and maintain an airway using safe, proven prehospital techniques.
How to perform CPR with correct compression depth and rhythm for adults.
How to operate an AED with confidence, speed, and accuracy.
How to recognize early signs of shock, internal bleeding, and respiratory distress.
How to safely assess a violent-injury scene before providing aid.
How to build calm, confident decision-making through hands-on scenario practice.
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
Responsible civilians
Parents and guardians
Concealed carriers
Martial artists and self-defense students
Church, school, and workplace safety teams
Security professionals
Anyone who refuses to be helpless in an emergency
No prior experience required.
A Course for the Real World, Not the Textbook World
What You Will Learn
Most injuries from violence are survivable—if the right actions are taken in the first 2–4 minutes.
A majority of firearm deaths occur before reaching definitive care.
In U.S. data, roughly 56.6% of gunshot casualties who ultimately died did so on the scene (before hospital arrival)
Gunshot wound first aid
- CPR and Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Airway obstruction and rescue breathing
Internal bleeding indicators and immediate response
Wound packing & junctional pressure
Tourniquet mastery and common mistakes
Understanding hypovolemic shock
Catastrophic Hemorrhage of the Limbs
- Open Pneumothorax: Sucking Wound of the Chest
Hemorrhage of the Abdomen
Knife Slash Abdominal Evisceration
Knife Stab In Situ
Hemorrhagic Shock
Hypothermia
Gunshot to the Head
This is hands-on, evidence-based, and realistic training grounded in M.A.R.C.H. protocols and modern first-responder methodology.
Training Equipment Note
The hands-on trauma training uses the 360X R.E.A.C.T.™ Trauma Kit, staged and deployed exactly as taught in class.
Students may purchase the kit separately after registration and receive a $25 training credit when proof of enrollment is presented at class.
My Guarantee To You
If you don’t leave this training with confidence in your ability to save a life,
you may retake the course for free.
No questions asked.
The training kit used during this course is the 360X R.E.A.C.T.™ Trauma Kit, designed to support rapid, real-world trauma response.
[Learn more about the 360X REACT kit]
WHY THIS TRAINING MATTERS
“Bleeding to death from an extremity wound can occur in as little as 3 minutes.” — Journal of Trauma Medicine
“Most lives are saved not by professionals, but by trained lay responders who take action immediately.” — American College of Surgeons
Your hands can become the difference between life and death for someone you love.
Class size is limited to ensure hands-on instruction.
What’s Included in Your Training
5 Hours of Hands-On Instruction covering gunshot wounds, knife injuries, catastrophic bleeding, CPR, and AED use.
Full Trauma Equipment Access, including tourniquets, wound-packing trainers, compression materials, and CPR manikins.
Step-by-Step Skill Coaching with individualized correction and instructor feedback.
American Red Cross Standards apply to all First Aid, CPR, and AED fundamentals.
Trauma First Aid Techniques for hemorrhage control, shock prevention, and airway compromise.
Certification of Completion for your records, workplace requirements, or personal preparedness.
Emergency Quick-Reference Card for your wallet, range bag, glove box, or medical kit.
Realistic Scenario Practice to develop confidence under pressure.
Fine Print: This training is not an official American Red Cross (A.R.C.) course. It is provided independently by a certified A.R.C. instructor and incorporates additional trauma-response methods and real-world practices beyond the scope of standard A.R.C. programs.
Meet Your Instructor
Professor Kenneth R. Haslam
Professor Haslam is a certified American Red Cross Instructor in Infant, Child, and Adult First Aid, CPR, and AED, and brings decades of real-world emergency experience to this course. He served as an EMT with Haley Ambulance in Denver, Colorado, responding to some of the most critical calls in emergency medicine — heart attacks, vehicle collisions, burns, traumatic injuries, violent assaults, and life-threatening hemorrhage.
In addition to national certification, he holds specialized training in Trauma First Aid, Gunshot Wound First Aid, and catastrophic injury management, making this course uniquely grounded in both medical standards and actual field experience.
Over his career as an instructor, Professor Haslam has trained hundreds of civilians, martial artists, caregivers, and responsible firearm owners in the skills required to save a life in the first critical minutes before EMS arrives. His teaching style blends clarity, calm under pressure, and hands-on realism, ensuring every student leaves not just informed — but truly capable.
“My goal is simple: to give ordinary people the extraordinary ability to save a life when the moment chooses them.”
— Professor Kenneth R. Haslam