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Saturday & Sunday
September 20, 2025 - September 21, 2025
8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Dark Angel Medical DART 1
D.A.R.T. 1
(Direct Action Response Training)
COURSE INFO:
2-Day Class
$475 + $25/day venue fee
(plus you receive a special discount for $55 off your choice of a DARK, Slim, HEDR, VISR or SPEAR kit. Code will be in your email confirmation after registering).
50% deposit required at registration – remaining balance due at class via CASH / CHECK
PRE-REQUISITES:
There are no prerequisites for this class. This class is for beginners and experts alike.
STUDENT REQUIREMENTS:
- An open mind
- All training materials are provided, but students can bring their med/trauma kit if they have one.
COURSE CREDIT:
Direct Action Response Training will count for certification in B-CON through the American College of Surgeons. It also provides 16 hours of CEU’s, per CECBEMS, to NREMT EMT-Basics/Advanced and Paramedics.
DESCRIPTION:
This course is for anybody and should be a priority for EVERYBODY. Come learn critical life-saving skills with MDFI and Dark Angel Medical.
Direct Action Response Training (D.A.R.T.) fills a niche between military self-aid/buddy care training and civilian EMS training and is geared towards those with little to no medical training or background. It provides the student with critical, need-to-know information, which can be utilized in a myriad of situations and stresses the ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ principle as well as our own principle of “Simplicity Under Stress”.
The course is a total of 16 hours of classroom work to include slide presentations, videos, question and answer sessions and hands-on practical skills application.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Physiological and Psychological reactions to environmental stress
- The importance of having the proper Combat Mindset
- Basic Anatomy and Physiology of life-sustaining systems
- H, A, B, C’s—Hemorrhage, Airway, Breathing and Circulation
- Breakdown and usage of Individual Med Kit (IMK) components
- Proper stowage and employment of the IMK
- Hands-on application of the IMK
- Basic and Advanced Airway management -treating and monitoring tension pneumothorax, sucking chest wound and flail chest
- Airway adjunct device placement-Nasopharyngeal Airway
- Basic First Aid and Advanced wound care
- Application of Bandages and Hemostatic Agents
- Application of tourniquets
- Recognition and Treatment of various injuries (Gunshot, Laceration, Burn, Airway, Head, Orthopedic, Environmental)
- Recognition and treatment of hypovolemic (hemorrhagic) shock
- Moving and positioning victims with various injuries
- Response to active shooter situations
- Proper use of cover and cover vs. concealment
- Casualty recovery in an Active Shooter situation
- Mass casualty triage procedure
- Emergency Medical Dialect/Lingo (911 protocol, cooperation with LE, Fire and EMS and First Responders)