Australian Tactical Medical Association

WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASS

ATMC invites you to join the pre-conference workshops & masterclasses, taking place on Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd September 2026 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC).

Explore the available options below. Each session offers valuable opportunities to deepen your knowledge ahead of the main conference. Please note:

Workshop registration fees apply
attendance at a pre-conference workshop or masterclass requires registration for the full ATMC conference, held at BCEC from Wednesday 23rd to Friday 25th September 2026.
Spaces are limited, secure your spot early to avoid missing out!

To register for the workshops & ATMC 2026 - please click here.

For more information, please contact the ATMC Secretariat.

RESUS ACADEMY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
SPONSORED BY LAERDAL

DATE: Monday, 21st September 2026

TIME: 8:00am - 5:00pm

VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC)
ROOM: Meeting Room A1 & A2 - Arbour Level

REGISTRATION FEE: $100

HOSTED BY: Jason Roosa, MD MS

DESCRIPTION:
Law enforcement officers have a unique opportunity to save lives from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA). They're often on scene and at the patient’s side well before the ambulance service can arrive. We all learn CPR, but not everyone learns how to build the system around it that turns good intentions into better outcomes. This workshop focuses on the simple, high-impact steps that make the difference.

In collaboration with The Resuscitation Academy, and with the support of Laerdal Australia, ATMA presents this full-day program on how law enforcement officers and organisations can improve OHCA survival by building a system of care that includes training and education, quality improvement, and collaboration with prehospital and in-hospital partners across the chain of survival. The Resuscitation Academy started in 2008 with Seattle Medic One and King County EMS, who have some of the best cardiac arrest outcomes in the world. The program has since grown into an international course that teaches EMS leaders how to bring best-practice OHCA care back to their own organisations.

In 2024, The Resuscitation Academy developed a course tailored to the needs of police officers and law enforcement agencies. This workshop will begin with a morning masterclass covering core concepts such as "The Ten Steps for Improving Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest" alongside case studies from law enforcement agencies in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom that have worked to improve OHCA survival. In the afternoon we will break into small-group coached practice using Laerdal’s real-time CPR feedback technology to focus on the individual components of high-performance CPR (HP-CPR) and defibrillation, followed by a train-the-trainer session so you can teach these skills within your own agency. You'll leave with the tools, systems, and strategies to improve how your officers respond to cardiac arrest and increase survival in your community.

MEDICAL SKILLS ESCAPE ROOM

DATE: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
TIME: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC)
ROOM: Room to be confirmed closer to the conference via the Program
REGISTRATION FEE: $195 – registration fee includes afternoon tea
HOSTED BY: Anyone Not Ready

DESCRIPTION:
A hands-on, scenario-based workshop that challenges teams to make medical decisions and perform critical skills in a resource-limited environment. Teams must rapidly assess patients, interpret incomplete information, troubleshoot equipment failures, and make time-critical decisions while solving clinical puzzles that simulate real-world friction. Participants can sign up as a team of up to four (4) individuals or as a single resource. Single resources will be placed in an ad hoc team at the beginning of the lab.

WORKSHOP TARGET AUDIENCE:
Medical professionals of all levels

TACTICAL WELLBEING

DATE: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
TIME: 8:00am - 12:00pm
VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC)
ROOM: Room to be confirmed closer to the conference via the Program
REGISTRATION FEE: $120 – registration fee includes morning tea.
HOSTED BY: Warriors and Wardens

DESCRIPTION:
The Tactical Well-Being Online Course provides Military personnel and First Responders with a comprehensive approach to emotional well-being and operational readiness. Our course focuses on four key components: Tactical Survival, Psychological Clarity, Resilient Identity, and Crisis Mitigation.

Each component includes exercises, SOPs, and projected end states to ensure practical application and tangible results. Join us to enhance your well-being and preparedness for any situation.

TRAUMASIM COMPREHENSIVE MOULAGE WORKSHOP

DATE: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
TIME: 8:00am - 5:00pm
VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC)
ROOM: Room to be confirmed closer to the conference via the Program
REGISTRATION FEE: $540 – registration fee includes lunch.
HOSTED BY: TraumaSim

DESCRIPTION:
This course is for anyone who wants to take their moulage seriously. You will leave with skills in preparing for training scenarios including vehicle crashes, explosions, armed assault and recreational injuries. You will be introduced to professional moulage products and guided through your hands on moulage practice. Working in teams you will create realistic moulage taking into account the mechanism of injury for each of the scenarios above.

This course will be delivered by the experienced team from TraumaSim. TraumaSim commenced operation in 2008 and since then has been the gold standard in moulage services, training and supplies across Australia and globally.

Course content:

Introduction to moulage
Methods of bruise creation
Silicone and its uses
Scenario specific moulage.

Scenario preparation will take the form of a round-robin. Participants will be split into 4 groups who will simultaneously create a moulaged casualty for each of the following scenarios:

Vehicle crash - injuries could include open fractures, lacerations, bruises.
Explosion - injuries could include burns, fragmentation, open fractures.
Armed assault - injuries could include gunshot wounds or stab wounds.
Recreational injury - injuries could include anything consistent with a great outdoors incident. Such as snake bite, fall from height even a shark bite.

Let your imagination run wild.

Note each person will take a turn at being the casualty in their group so bring a change of clothes that you’re happy to have destroyed.

No previous experience required.

DIFFICULT AIRWAY WORKSHOP

DESCRIPTION:

Explosive weapons and drone-delivered munitions are reshaping the pattern of battlefield injuries, with a significant rise in maxillofacial trauma and airway compromise that challenges traditional approaches to airway management. Recent data from the Russia–Ukraine war show that blast mechanisms now account for over 85% of war-related maxillofacial injuries, dramatically increasing the likelihood of distorted anatomy, heavy bleeding, and complex “can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate/ventilate” (CICO) scenarios in both military and civilian tactical environments. Historical data from conflicts such as Vietnam suggested upper airway injuries were relatively uncommon (around 0.7% of evacuated casualties), but contemporary weapon systems and improvised explosive devices have shifted the burden of injury towards devastating facial and neck trauma that more frequently demands advanced and surgical airway interventions. At the same time, emerging evidence indicates that manual bag-mask ventilation is frequently performed dangerously or inadequately by prehospital providers, with ineffective seal, excessive tidal volumes, and poor rate control contributing to hypoxia and gastric insufflation in up to 90–95% of observed cases in some simulation-based studies.

This workshop uses the Vortex approach as a unifying cognitive framework to help tactical clinicians recognize and manage rapidly deteriorating airways under fire, with a focus on three domains: high-quality manual ventilation, video laryngoscopy (including SALAD for massively contaminated airways), and decisive transition to CICO and surgical airways when non-surgical options fail. Participants will explore how modern injury patterns driven by drones, IEDs, and high-energy blast mechanisms are increasing the frequency and complexity of battlefield airway problems, and will translate current combat and TECC/TCCC guidelines into practical, reproducible skills that can be deployed in austere and high-threat environments.

WORKSHOP TARGET AUDIENCE

Military medics, combat first responders, and advanced medical assistants in deployed or high-threat environments.
Tactical law enforcement medical officers, TEMS providers, and specialist police medics.
Prehospital clinicians (paramedics, CCPs, retrieval physicians, EM/ICU registrars) operating with tactical teams or in blast-risk regions.
Educators and clinical leads responsible for airway guidelines, training programs, and equipment procurement in defence, police, and tactical EMS organisations.

INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT COURSE

Date: Monday 21st to Tuesday 22nd September 2026
Time: 0900 – 1700
Venue: Southbeach on South Bank, Bungalow Room
Registration Fee: $450. Morning tea and lunch included.
Hosted by: Ragged Edge Pacific

DESCRIPTION:

Become a more confident, capable, and impactful educator, ready to pass your valuable experience to your teammates.

Presented by Andy Bell and Dr Sandy MacQuarrie.

Whether you're teaching colleagues, mentoring new clinicians, facilitating simulation, or delivering formal education, great instructors don't just share knowledge—they inspire learning. This immersive two-day Instructor Development Course is designed for educators, instructors, and team leaders at any stage of their career who want to strengthen their teaching skills and maximize their impact as educators.

Held in conjunction with the Australian Tactical Medicine Conference, this interactive program provides a unique opportunity to invest in your professional development before connecting with leaders and peers from across the tactical and prehospital medicine community. While the course complements the conference, its educational principles are broadly applicable across all areas of healthcare and are relevant to anyone involved in teaching or training.

Over two engaging days, participants will explore the fundamentals of effective adult education through practical exercises, facilitated discussions, and opportunities to teach in a supportive learning environment. You'll discover your own teaching strengths, identify areas for growth, and develop evidence-informed strategies to create engaging learning experiences, deliver meaningful feedback, and facilitate confident, learner-centred education.

Designed with busy healthcare professionals in mind, this high-impact two-day program delivers practical skills that can be applied immediately in a wide range of educational settings. A pre-course online learning package is included, and participants are eligible to claim up to 16 hours of continuing education credits.

TACTICAL EMERGENCY CASUALTY CARE (TECC)

DATE: Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
TIME: 8:00am - 5:00PM

VENUE: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC)
ROOM: Room to be confirmed closer to the conference via the Program
REGISTRATION FEE: $350
HOSTED BY: Committee For Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (CTECC)

DESCRIPTION:

The Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines represent a set of evidenced-based best practices for the immediate medical management of wounded in all prehospital high-risk scenarios. TECC is not tactical medicine; instead, it is intended for situations with on-going threat to the provider and patient. TECC balances the on-going threats, civilian scope of practice, population, medical equipment, and the variable response resources in civilian atypical emergencies. This course is intended to familiarize Advanced Life Support Providers, Basic Life Support providers, EMS Medical Directors and Operational Leadership with the medical and tactical guidelines, medical evidence, controversies in high threat medicine, and explore the different types and brands of medical equipment involved in the TECC guidelines.

Take-home point #1: There are three phases of TECC medical care that are defined by the relationship of the provider to the threat. Each phases has a different set of medical priorities that are driven by the medical risk-benefit ratio.
Take-home point #2: Indirect Threat Care is the phase where there is a continued realistic threat of further injury to the provider and patient but that threat is not tangible, well defined and immediate. In this phase of care, the medical priorities can be defined by the mnemonic MARCHE.
Take-home point #3: TECC is applicable in all high threat operations where there is an ongoing risk to the provider and patient, and the tactical operations have impact and implications on medical operations. This is not limited to law enforcement related operations such as SWAT operations and Active Shooter response, but includes all high threat like medical response to explosive mass casualty, vehicle rammings, hazardous materials response, and technical rescue.

This workshop will be taught directly by two of the co-founders and co-chairs of the Committee and will address current controversies and future direction and developments in TECC.

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