Tactical Medicine Essentials Instructor's ToolKit: .

The Instructor's ToolKit CD-ROM includes PowerPoint presentations, lecture outlines, images and exams.

About the Author :
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) exists to support quality emergency medical care and to promote the interests of emergency physicians. The Board of Directors has identified values that serve as the guiding principles for the specialty of emergency medicine. These values, and the objectives that follow, are the foundation of ACEP's planning processes and Council and Board actions. The values of the American College of Emergency Physicians are: Quality emergency care is a fundamental right and unobstructed access to emergency services should be available to all patients who perceive the need for emergency services. There is a body of knowledge unique to emergency medicine that requires continuing refinement and development. Physicians entering the practice of emergency medicine should be residency trained in emergency medicine. Quality emergency medicine is best practiced by qualified, credentialed emergency physicians. The best interests of patients are served when emergency physicians practice in a fair, equitable, and supportive environment. Emergency physicians have the responsibility to play the lead roles in the definition, management, evaluation, and improvement of quality emergency care.The ACEP was founded in 1968 and is the world's oldest and largest and largest emergency medicine specialty organization. Today it represents more than 28,000 members and is the emergency medicine specialty society recognized as the acknowledged leader in emergency medicine. John H. Campbell, Editor, University of California, Los Angeles, received his undergraduate education at the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following postdoctoral studies at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia, Dr. Cambell joined the faculty of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964. He has served as a visiting scientist in the Division of Plant Industry at CSIRO; as both a visiting professor in the Department of Genetics and a visiting scholar in the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian University; as a visiting professor in the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University, England; and as the Robert Wesson Scholar on Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. An evolutionary biologist concerned especially with theoretical genetics and the development of biological patterns, Professor Cambell also pursues research interests in philosophy of science and analyses of the nonlinear aspects of the natural world 'Dr. Heiskell is the founder and medical director for the International School of Tactical Medicine, the first and only state and federally approved tactical medicine school approved by the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Dr. Heiskell is residency trained and board certified in emergency medicine and family practice and has been a practicing emergency physician for more than 32 years.Prior to attending medical school, Dr. Heiskell spent 5 years with the United States Antarctic Research Program and served on three expeditions to Antarctica and the South Pole. He was awarded the Congressional Antarctic Service Medal in 1979. He has 29 years of experience as a SWAT team physician beginning as a reserve deputy with the Kern County Sheriff’s Department in Bakersfield, California. He is currently a reserve police officer and tactical physician with the Palm Springs Police Department in Palm Springs, California.Dr. Heiskell served on an 18-agency member tactical medicine coalition under the auspices of the California Commission on Police Officer Standards and Training and California Emergency Medical Authority (EMSA) to create the State of California Tactical Medicine Operational Programs and Standardized Training Recommendations.He is a graduate of Riverside Sheriff’s Office (RSO) SWAT School, National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) School, Heckler & Koch SWAT School, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) SWAT School. Dr. Heiskell has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on tactical emergency medicine and has published over 70 articles and other publications on tactical medicine topics.'Dr. Heiskell has provided special operations emergency medical support for the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). Colonel Smith currently serves as the public safety director for a rural community in the Southeastern US. He has more than 45 years’ experience in public safety as a certified police chief and has served as a bureau commander in a metropolitan police agency supervising an FBI certified bomb squad and a clandestine laboratory entry-assessment team, 911 center serving more than 30 agencies, responded more than 300 bomb/incendiary incidents, and more than 100 clandestine laboratories. Smith has served as the public safety coordinator for a university with multiple campuses.Smith has developed several classes for the university environment addressing clandestine laboratories, emergency management, WMD, and crisis management. He has been a practicing paramedic for more than 45 years and is a certified fire instructor. Smith has a master’s degree in science in safety from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from Troy University. He has served as a paramedic in the tactical setting for many years and teaches classes in this arena. Smith served as a task force officer on a federal joint terrorism task force and as a senior health physics technician and radiochemist at an operating nuclear power facility for several years.He has written several textbooks including subject matter on bombs and bombings, response to WMD events, EMS operations in the WMD setting, and crisis management. He also serves as a peer reviewer for several textbook publishers and professional journals, and he has more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published. Smith has conducted research on explosion and fragment suppression leading to the production of specialized equipment and a patent issued for the process. Smith teaches criminal justice, homeland security, and terrorism classes for the University of Phoenix and Troy University.