Likewise. Motorbike crash, open tib/fib with possible spinal? I can manage that scene happily. Cadet crying with a hurty knee? I pass that on to someone with better people skills than me!
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Itâs interesting that you still use SJA. We are our own centre, under the Defence Awarding Organisation. Itâs not perfect, but it got us out from under the yoke of SJA. Considering how much first aid training all cadet orgs do, it seems silly to outsource.
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Chuck them a first aid kit and make them do it themselves, thatâs what we train them for! 
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If you put a hole in the Oesophagus, you really are cutting too deep or approaching from the wrong angle. Eosophagus is the uncivilised US spelling.
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Forgive the typo, but exactly - if you donât know what youâre doing then you shouldnât be trying to put holes in a trachea. Youâre likely to get it very wrong.
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It is very rare to require needle tracheostomy except in cases of facial burns from whatever cause or direct trauma, angioedema secondary to allergy where facial swelling is so much that it compromises the airway, I have had an emergency tracheostomy set available in cases of epiglottis where the epiglottis is so swollen that the anaesthetist may have great difficulty in inserting an endotracheal tube.
And I understand that we may soon be dropping âYouth First Aidâ from 2* and replacing with something more modern, but this is a waiting game on whether SJA want to support the changes that have been put to them.
Considering weâre a registered and authorised centre for FAAW, is there a reason we couldnât go down the route of a tailored syllabus?
If everything on it is still out of an approved and recognised manual or taken from other courses, what would actually prevent us from saying âthatâs what we need, thatâs a standard weâre happy withâ?
You would need clinical governance to approve it and it would then likely be useless to externals so CFAVs would actually lose out. A cheap FAAW course is always a nice benefit for CFAVs to take back to their employer.
Why canât this be taken up with forces medical services as a purple project for the cadet forces and ask them to produce a course fit for purpose?
The monies spent by the RAFAC could be recycled internally rather than to external providers. Professor Sir Johnathon van Tamm was introduced into the ACF as an honorary Colonel and revamped the ACFs medical kit, why cannot the cadets forces work together to deal with this situation.
ETA whilst FAAW benefits employers as well, are they making a contribution to the costs involved?
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They would be if they let their staff take paid leave to do the training.
Thatâs not how paid leave works. They would be supporting it if they didnât make them take leave to attend the training.
This, unless you meant extra paid leave rather than taking it out of annual leave.
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Yes additional paid time off to attend a CF run FAAW (so on the same footing as sending someone on a commercially run course).
The business gets the benefit of not paying the course cost and the CFAV doesnât have to give up a weekend.
(Appreciate it doesnât help the self employed, contractors, students etc)
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FAAW covers most of the things a CFAV will require, so it is easier just to deliver that. It is also recognised outside of the Cadet Forces, so more useful to employers. Things like TQ training can just be added on as a bolt on, it doesnât affect the main certification. It just has to be aligned with the HSE requirements.