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RK PMCI: If someone reading this article likes the sound of what you offer, what should be their next step? Please visit our website, browse the kits we create and have to offer and watch the videos highlighting exactly what we do. You can also sign up for a course there and/or use the “CONTACT” link if you have any further questions! WEBSITE: WWW.DARKANGELMEDICAL.COM FACEBOOK: FACEBOOK.COM/DARKANGELMEDICAL INSTAGRAM: @DARKANGELMEDICAL EMAIL: [email protected] OFFICE NUMBER: +1 (720) 836-7150 (U.S. MOUNTAIN TIME) PMCI: Many thanks indeed for your time Ross, and it was our absolute pleasure to meet you in person. We look forward to working with Dark Angel Medical again in the future, and to attending one of your courses ourselves. Our Direct Action Response Training (D.A.R.T.) Course is two days in length. We take students through some history of trauma medicine as it relates to the current day world, the physiology and psychology of stress and how it affects the body (for both victims and rescuers!), basic medical anatomy and physiology, the assessment of a trauma victim and a multitude of specific injuries, their treatments, and then hands-on skills to tie everything all that knowledge together. Our students are taught through lectures, Powerpoint presentations, videos and hands-on sessions where they apply the knowledge they’ve learnt using the actual medical kit components. PMCI: Do you offer training in specialised equipment? At the basic level trauma medicine really requires no specialised equipment; however, we do introduce students to the “tools of the trade”. Tourniquets, occlusive chest seals, nasopharyngeal airways (a small rubber tube inserted into the nose), a variety of bandages as well as hemostatic (blood clotting) are all covered in detail. PMCI: Do you have all the equipment available as part of your courses? Absolutely! We of course show the students what comes in the majority of our own dark Angel Medical kits (students have the option to add a kit to any course they take with us) and they get plenty of time to become familiar and train with the individual components. PMCI: Where do you see Dark Angel Medical evolving in the future? I personally see Dark Angel Medical expanding further into the “outdoor” market even further! The reality is that no matter what people do, for business or recreation, there is the potential for life-threatening trauma to happen and we want people to know what to do if and when that time comes; we use the slogan, “Be a By-doer not a Bystander!” pmcimagazine.com