Prolonged Field Care (PFC)
Operational medical preparation for clinicians required to sustain critically ill and injured patients when evacuation is delayed, disrupted or unavailable.
Course Overview
PFC prepares clinicians and medical teams to deliver sustained casualty care beyond conventional evacuation timelines, where resources are finite, diagnostics are limited and definitive treatment may be hours or days away.
Delivered through immersive simulation and progressively deteriorating operational scenarios, the programme develops the clinical judgement, procedural capability and team resilience required to keep casualties alive when evacuation can no longer be assumed.
Learning Focus
- Casualty Sustainment: Maintaining physiology and preventing deterioration over prolonged periods
- Resource-Limited Critical Care: Delivering ICU-level principles with constrained personnel, equipment, blood and oxygen
- Dynamic Clinical Decision-Making: Recognising deterioration, reassessing priorities and adapting treatment as circumstances change
- Evacuation-Denied Medicine: Planning and delivering care when timelines are uncertain and evacuation may fail completely
Programme Includes
- Prolonged resuscitation and haemorrhage management
- Airway and ventilation management
- Austere critical care and patient monitoring
- Blood and blood-product management
- Analgesia, sedation and antimicrobial strategies
- Wound care and infection prevention
- Nutrition, hydration and nursing care
- Crush injury, burns and complex trauma
- Resource-depletion scenarios
- Clinical deterioration and failed-evacuation exercises
- Multi-casualty prolonged care simulation
Who It's For
Doctors, nurses, paramedics and other experienced clinicians deploying to remote, hostile, austere or evacuation-constrained environments.