Valkyries Austere Medical Solutions (VAMS) recognizes that continuous skill development for Tactical Medical Providers is as important continuous skill development is for Tactical Operators. Our commitment is to meet the unique needs of each and every one of our clients, whether through our established courses or through a course designed especially for the class needing instruction. Through our comprehensive tactical medical course programs, we equip our clients with the knowledge and training necessary to enhance their capabilities in mission support. In our courses, VAMS emphasize the integration of knowledge, skills, experience, and critical thinking, enabling our clients to deliver top-notch medical care during Austere Tactical Operations. VAMS is dedicated to ensuring that those on the front lines have the tools and expertise needed to save lives in challenging environments.
The “Art” of the Tactical Medical Provider is an ever-evolving discipline, especially in the dynamic environments in which we operate. Having the right educational training experiences is crucial for the success of combat and tactical medics who provide life-saving interventions and trauma shock resuscitation to those in need. At VAMS, our dedicated Instructor Team is committed to ensuring that our tactical medicine courses align with our clients' operational requirements. Also, at VAMS, our central mission revolves around elevating team survivability through the application of effective tactical medicine. We uphold the highest standards, as outlined by the Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), Deployed Medicine Algorithms, and the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care Casualty treatment guidelines. These guidelines represent the pinnacle of casualty management in battlefield scenarios. By adhering to these gold standards, we ensure that our tactical medical providers are well-prepared to deliver life-saving care in even the most challenging and austere environments.
"Stop the Bleed" (SBC) is a valuable training program designed to equip participants with essential skills to control and manage severe bleeding in emergency situations. We present this course between 2-4 hours depending on our clients’ needs. SBC provide beneficial life-saving skills that can be applied for various settings, including households, schools, and other venues where life-threatening bleeding emergencies could occur. Following is additional information on this course:
This course provides the standardized Tactical Combat Casualty Care All Service Members (TCC-ASM Tier-1). This course is a specialized training program designed to provide military service members and non-medical providers with the knowledge and skills needed to provide basic medical aid to trauma casualties in a tactical combat environment. The TCC-ASM Tier-1 curriculum is intended to familiarize our course participants with TCCC concepts and basic lifesaving skills to ensure the basic competencies to render medical aid to a trauma casualty.
This course is an intensive and comprehensive training program designed for non-medical providers who need to be prepared to render medical aid to trauma casualties in a combat or tactical environment. This course covers a wide range of educational concepts and life-saving skills.
This course is an advanced and intensive training program specifically designed for medical providers, such as combat medics and corpsmen. This 64-hour course is aimed at equipping these professionals with the advanced knowledge and skills required to manage life-threatening injuries commonly encountered in the challenging and austere tactical battlefield environment.
Course is designed for advanced pre-hospital providers who is looking to continue their tactical medical education and training. Students will refresh in TCCC principles and phases of care then continue into prolonged casualty care education and training while utilizing the MARCH-PAWS algorithm with the up to date guidelines based on evidence-based research and proven practices to optimize prolonged patient care in austere locations, improve outcomes and save lives.
Offers an immersive and intense training experience that merges tactical medicine with operational aspects of Tactical Operations.
VAMS places an emphasis on combining tactical medicine at the point of wounding, extrication techniques and CCP operations. We combine this with working space and angles of CQB within small tactical cells provides our students a hands-on approach to learning CQB fundamentals.
This three-day course provides participants with tactical mobil operations, dismounting and fighting from vehicles, single and multi-cell CQB techniques and tactics, fundamentals of TCCC at the point of wounding and CCP operations on the move.
This 7-day course provides our students the education and training required to manage in and around helicopter operations. This comprehensive course focuses on Basic helicopter nomenclature, operations and planning, rappelling, winch operations, fast rope and managing causalities in flight.
VAMS Advance Provider Tactical Medicine K9 Course is designed to meet the needs of pre-hospital providers supporting K9 operations, or providers serving in an area with the potential for an encounter with a sick or wounded K9. This course also supports the educational needs of providers that provided direct care to operational K9s in support of SAR and USAR operations