Advanced K9 Tactical Field Care

Techline’s advanced tactical medical canine program is taught by experienced Veterinary, Law Enforcement, and Paramedic professionals. The course is based on the Canine-TCCC guidelines. The advanced canine tactical medical training program provides handlers, medics, tactical medics, and other support members with the medical skills needed to prevent and treat injuries and illnesses in working dogs. Mastery of these skills requires extensive, specialized emergency medical services training and experience in the tactical environment. This is accomplished by teaching human medical practitioners how to transfer their existing medical skills to the canine patient using both live dogs for simple procedures such as bandaging and K9 Manikins for invasive procedures. We also work with handlers to expand their medical awareness and skills.

This program covers the essential curriculum of canine pre-veterinary medicine including:

• Canine patient assessment
• Legal considerations
• Expedient extraction and evacuation
• Penetrating trauma injuries
• Severe Bleeding
• Poisonings
• Blunt Trauma
• Airway emergencies
• Cardiac Arrest
• IO/IV/IM/SQ
• Intubation
• Hypo/Hyperthermia emergencies
• Bloat
• Tactical environment

This program is available to all emergency medical providers, tactical medics, law enforcement officers and any handler of a professional working dog. Individuals wishing to attend this training must be able to participate in intensive training lasting up to ten hours per day and must not have any medical restrictions. Handlers are encouraged to bring their canines to training provided they have appropriate vehicle kennels able to securely house the canine and protect them from hot and cold environments.

Location: Techline Technologies - 668 Davisville Road - Willow Grove, PA 19090

Length: 16 hours 

Cost: $850.00 (Public Safety/Military Discount Available)

Target Audience: K9 Handlers, TEMS/SWAT Medics

Course Objectives:

Understand what the Pre-veterinary care act entails
Understand and Explain the differences between human and canine anatomy
Understand and Explain differences between human and canine physiology
Demonstrate Knowledge of the phases of care as per the CoTCCC
Demonstrate Knowledge of all aspects of Canine “MARCH”
Demonstrate the ability to safely approach and restrain canine using appropriate techniques
Demonstrate the ability to perform a neurological assessment on canine
Identify canine IM injection sites
Understand the canine vascular system
Demonstrate the ability to perform an “On the move assessment”
Demonstrate the ability to perform a head to tail assessment
Understand canine’s respiratory system
Demonstrate the ability to obtain canine respiration rate
Demonstrate the ability to obtain canine pulse
Demonstrate the ability to evaluate canine circulation
Demonstrate the ability to obtain canine temperature
Demonstrate the ability to evaluate canine’s hydration level
Demonstrate the ability to care for canine minor bleeding
Demonstrate the ability to treat canine thoracic chest trauma
Demonstrate the ability to treat massive hemorrhage in canine
Demonstrate the ability to manage a canine’s compromised airway
Demonstrate the ability to perform canine CPR
Understand what bloat is and how it affects canine
Demonstrate the ability to treat canine for bloat
Demonstrate the ability to start intravenous access on canine
Demonstrate the ability to gain intraosseous access on canine
Understand heat emergencies in canine
Understand concepts of Evaporation, Conduction, Convection, Radiation and Activity in canines
Demonstrate treatment of heat emergency in canine
Demonstrate appropriate treatment of ocular trauma
Demonstrate appropriate splinting of canine extremities
Understand analgesia considerations and dosages in canine
Understand clinical signs and treatment of toxic ingestion in canines