K9 Down!
- Are you prepared if your canine partner goes down? Do you know what to do?
- Do the emergency personnel in your area know how to treat a police working dog?
- Is your tactical medic, fire department, rescue squad, or ambulance service, aware that many emergency treatments for humans also work on police canines?
Most law enforcement agencies simply load an injured or ill police working dog into the back of an emergency vehicle and drive rapidly to the veterinarian. There are measures that can, and should, be taken to save the life of a police canine that officers, medics, and emergency personnel don’t do or don’t know about.
K9 Down: Emergency Medical Care of the Police Working Dog is designed for canine handlers, tactical medics, fire department personnel, and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel who may care for a police working dog who has suffered a critical injury or life threatening illness. Combining the principals of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS), and Advanced Life Support (ALS), this book is the only one of its kind that translates human pre-hospital care into canine emergency veterinary medicine.
LEARN:
- Assessment of the Police Working Dog: Primary Survey, ABC’s, Canine Physical Examination, and Vital Signs. Canine Airway Obstruction, Heimlich Maneuver, and CPR.
- First Aid and Advanced Life Support Treatment for Trauma, Shock, Wounds, Fractures, Burns, Environmental Emergencies, Bloat, Dehydration, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Hypothermia, Frost Bite, Allergic Reaction, and Snake Bite
- First Aid and Advanced Life Support Treatment for HAZMAT Poisoning and Decontamination, Treatment for Ingestion of THC/Marijuana/Hash, Cocaine, Amphetamine/Methamphetamine, Opiates, Cyclonite Based Explosives (RDX, C-4, Semtex), Nitrate Based Explosives, Smokeless Powder, and Potassium and Sodium Chlorate Based Explosives
- Advanced Life Support Procedures: ECG Monitoring, Defibrillation, IV Access, Interosseous Placement, Intubation, Thoracentesis, and Advanced Cardiac Life Support/Emergency Medicine Compatibility and Dosages.
- Enhanced First Aid Kit Recommendations
“I’ve been a tactical medic for over 10 years. I have always wondered what to do if one of the canines goes down. Now I know how to apply tactical combat casualty care concepts and advanced life support to our canine partners.â€-Tactical Medic
“This book is essential for every police canine handler, tactical medic, fire/rescue department, and EMS provider who may find themselves tasked with providing care for an injured or critically ill police working dog.â€-Law Enforcement Canine Handler
Don’t wait until your partner is critically injured or ill. Order K9 Down: Emergency Medical Care of the Police Working Dog today.
