If you are interested in this, become an EMT (and keep up with your CEU and mandatory min work)
Volunteer with your local FD or VFD or even police, many towns and cities and sheriffs have a volunteer or reserve officer program. Its hands on training, stuff that is drubbed into your brain, not something that goes so well reading if off of a trauma card.
Having done just about all of that, I cannot say enough about the value of such experience. However, two problems with that in this context.
One, most folks aren't actually interested in this at that level. They don't want to save other people as a lifestyle, just themselves and their loved ones in a one-off event.
They don't have the time to become an EMT, or to perform the volunteer duties.
Second problem: Nor would they necessarily get much out of such duties, as many departments and services, particularly volunteer depts. and services, don't have Tourniquets, Hemostatics etc. in their protocols. If your interest is in what to do with a gunshot victim in your family, or a gunshot victim inside your set of skin, being a Volly firefighter might not have done you much good. And being a Volunteer or Reserve Officer or Deputy is probably going to expose you to Zero medical training, muchless experience.
I say this from experience. You will note that myself, and the other author of those videos, have beyond the training and experience of which you speak, so we know where we are coming from with regard to what we make available, and feel confident others can benefit from. Being on the receiving end of hundreds of hours of training, as well as being on the providing end, provides at least some perspective.
You will note that in those videos we deal in broad information, rather than specifically trying to impart (or create) protocol, or train anyone on rote technique. The intent of these videos was not to replace professional training, but rather to provide the following: (1)Basic guidance for those seeking knowledge on the broad topic of Tactical Medical Care for Individuals, from which they can seek out training as they so desire. (2)Correction and countering of mythologies that have arisen about a particular set of tools for the field/tactical medical arena. That is not targeted at laymen, or at professionals, exclusively but at everyone. Our aim here is to educate, and provide a counter to some of the dangerous untruths that even trained professionals fall prey to in our experience.
If you didn't value it, that's fine. But please don't denigrate the value to others, or otherwise discourage them from watching it. What someone gets from
any educational material, in any media, can only be determined by the individual. If
one person has something stick in their head from those videos, and can put it to use, then we've done our jobs.
