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16/09/2025

So here’s the thing…
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Medical events and trauma don’t discriminate, your age, colour and s*x is not relevant to an outcome.
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Your skill set is the defining factor.
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It was an absolute pleasure to have Izzy from train with us today on a Level 2 + Stop the Bleed blended course with the majority of the theory (the why) completed online and the practical skills (the how) refined and tested in person culminating in role player based scenarios.
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What Izzy has built is remarkable, in a male dominated recreational environment she has cultivated a group that supports a judgement free environment that supports women of all ages embarking on an introduction, an often, an addiction of outdoor pursuits.
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In line with our value of setting the market standard we believe what she does is genuinely where it is at and are happy to support her kaupapa of delivering not only the best opportunity for kiwi women to embrace the outdoors, but in doing so, knowing they have the ability to do so with the best possible training at their 6 should things not go to plan.
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Wildchix looking after chix in the wild…
Thank you for what you do Izzy and well done to all of the others who qualified today across NZ.
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We don’t get to pick and choose the time, date or location.
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We don’t rise to the occasion, we simply fall to standard of our training.
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Ad Slautem - To Save Lives!

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12/09/2025

I’ve been getting asked a fair bit about yesterday’s shooting of Charlie Kirk, largely about whether it was survivable or not.
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After watching the initial clip it was pretty clear the likelihood of surviving this was essentially nil.
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There’s two things that stand out for me,
1. the immediate decorticate response (posturing), showing massive vascular and (likely) Central Nervous System damage and,
2. the obvious vascular damage and massive haemorrhage.
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We don’t get to pick and choose, as providers of initial care and assessment, if we should or shouldn’t render aid, within reason, but we must also be realistic about survivability and understanding what is happening in my humble opinion is also important.
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With regards to the mechanism, here’s many factors when dealing with gunshot wounds, projectile type (civilian ammunition has significantly more devastating terminal ballistics), weight, velocity, angle and so on, the reality is though as mentioned by podcast recently, penetrating neck trauma is a nightmare to deal with, especially when the mechanism is high velocity ballistic penetrating trauma.
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Looking at the anatomy of the neck you can easily see why it’s as such, densely clustered critical vascular, neurological and respiratory aspects not to mention the oesophagus.
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Again, the chance of survival is essentially in the negatives.
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Hopefully this helps explain to the layman what’s happening here.
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Regarding the event, Mr. Kirk and his assassination/murder I genuinely feel for his family who were apparently present.
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There’s really no winners in these events, like many others involving acts of violence.
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Ad Slautem - To Save Lives…

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02/09/2025

"Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu." - Adorn the bird with feathers so it may fly.
Thank you to Ruapehu District Councilfor leading this project. We feel privileged to have been part of it, supporting the community with Stop the Bleed® and Remote Areas First Aid training to help strengthen emergency preparedness. We hope these skills are never needed, but being prepared can make all the difference.
To all the students — ka pai te mahi! Thank you for welcoming us onto your whenua and marae, for your willingness to learn, embracing the skills and challenges passed on from our matua, and for sharing your own anecdotes along the way.

05/08/2025

Time…
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Early this evening one of our former students saved someone’s life by packing a significant traumatic junctional injury with associated arterial bleeding.
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Junctional wound packing, although a basic skill is nuanced.
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It is generally taught poorly by pretenders and theorists who have no place delivering this training, it is something that ultimately will only succeed if practical training has been used to confirm theoretical knowledge.
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This one has me feeling a range of emotions as without giving away specifics it was a member of an organisation that we missed out on a contract with recently - only, due to price.
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We will never lower the standard, we only will ever simply out perform our competitors.
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Because New Zealand deserves better.
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In the meantime, our mission continues, as do our students results.
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New Zealand is a better place.
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Well done, well done.
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Ad Salutem - To Save Lives!

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10/07/2025

The beautiful thing about this conference so far has been clients we have gained from the last conference now pointedly introducing us to perspective new clients.
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They’re setting us up with conversations, contacts and contracts.
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This is a bi product of being the best provider of first aid training, equipment and services in New Zealand.
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Our training sells itself and we are so grateful of our amazing customers who “get it”.
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It’s all part of the mission;
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Ad Salutem - To Save Lives!

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25/06/2025

I don’t know how I’d do…
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Interesting but not uncommon conversation with a student today after asking them how they were finding the training.
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“I don’t know how I’d do in the real deal” was their very honest reply, my reply was as honest as I can be, “you’ll do how you do”.
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No matter how much training we commit to, no matter how many times we’ve done something prior in real time we don’t truly know how we’ll perform on the next rodeo.
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This can be said and is something I’ve observed in many situations, seasoned medics, seasoned gunfighters, seasoned communications and seasoned leaders failing to execute simple tasks that should be rudimentary.
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And that’s okay.
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Because you’ve done everything you can to control the controllables.
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This isn’t your full time profession, it’s an auxiliary, an important one nonetheless the less.
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So we train, we equip and we do what we do on the day, relax, breathe and trust the process and potentially be the difference in the outcome of preventable death.
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Keep the edge sharp team, find a way to incorporate more med and less generally worthless “tOoLbOx tAlKs”…
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Finish the week strong.
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As Salutem - To Save Lives!

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08/06/2025

No compromise…
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When it comes to high fidelity manikins there is only one that truly delivers from point of injury all the way through to prolonged care and clinical settings.
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The suite of simulators are simply head and shoulders above anything else, ruggedised, weighted and anatomically correct these next generation now units have been leading the way for years.
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And now, they’re available in New Zealand!
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When quality counts and objective results are required without the nuisance of plugs, cables or floppy skinned manikins that are prone to being broken think TacMed USA via PracMed NZ!
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