CCW Safe Lessons: Medical Series

With the objective to help self-defenders learn essential trauma skills that address the leading cause of preventable death in emergency situations, CCW Safe, the self-defense legal coverage membership program, has created a 4-part Medical Series of articles teaching important lessons. Each is linked below:

[ Read the SemperVerus article, CCW Safe Lessons: How, When, and Why to Use a Firearm Lawfully ]

⇨    Medical Series Part 1 —  The Armed Citizen’s Duty: Why Medical Training Matters.

• If you carry a firearm for protection, you’ve already acknowledged that bad things can happen to good people. You’ve taken responsibility for your safety and that of your loved ones. But here’s a sobering reality that most armed citizens never consider: you are statistically far more likely to save a life with medical skills than you are to need your firearm in a defensive encounter.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Self-Defense Includes First-Aid Defense: Turn to ProTrainings to Learn ]

⇨    Medical Series Part 2 —  Stop the Bleed: Essential Trauma Skills for Armed Citizens.

• Hemorrhage—severe bleeding—is the leading cause of preventable death in trauma situations. Whether it’s a car accident, workplace injury, or any other traumatic event, people die from bleeding that could have been stopped with immediate, proper intervention.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, A Directory of Medical Kit Resources ]

⇨    Medical Series Part 3 —  The Armed Citizen’s Medical Kit: Essential Equipment and Setup.

• Trauma kits are designed to address life-threatening injuries that require immediate intervention to prevent death. While a first aid kit helps with comfort and minor wound care, a trauma kit stops severe bleeding, manages airway problems, and addresses the types of injuries that kill people in minutes if left untreated.

[ Read SemperVerus articles on the topic of MEDICAL ]

⇨    Medical Series Part 4 —  Legal Considerations: Rendering Aid as an Armed Citizen.

• As an armed citizen without medical licensing, your “scope of practice” is limited to basic life-saving interventions that don’t require professional medical training. The trauma skills we’ve covered in this series—bleeding control, basic airway management, and wound care—fall clearly within this scope.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Concealed Carry Daily Prayer ]

Invite SemperVerus^® to present its 5 life-changing success-generating components—prepare, aware, be, know, do—to your organization to inspire and motivate your members.

Join the SemperVerus Brotherhood™!