Canine Tactical Medical Course (K9TC3)

Techline’s advanced tactical medical canine program is taught by experienced Law Enforcement – Paramedics from diverse backgrounds. 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.

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