Welcome to Action Amps (Amputee Casualty Simulations) Ltd
Trauma Training – First Aid Training for Military and Uniformed Services
When it comes to a life and death scenario, you need to know your stuff. But as well as knowing what to do, you need to have the strength of will to act. At Action Amps (ACS) Ltd, ex-military amputees participate in Casualty Simulations to help offer potentially life saving first aid training for military and uniformed services.
Trauma Training: Saving Lives
The reality of violence and horror on the battlefield can leave the toughest of characters in a state of shock. A bomb blast leaves victims disorientated and shell-shocked. Seeing a victim – whether he or she is a soldier, civilian, adult or child – with a limb or several limbs blown off – can leave people frozen in horror. Quick thinking and a trained response makes the difference between life and death. Trauma training is a proven technique helping combat medics and military personnel to take that split-second action that could save a life.
Amputee Casualty Simulations: Coping with Carnage
It's no good having advanced airway skills or haemorrhage control techniques if you can't keep a level head. Trauma training provides realistic first aid training for the military and uniformed services, offering effective shock management strategies. Being trained and capable around carnage and horror and keeping mentally strong in order to carry out medical care is a life-saving skill. And it isn't just in warzones with the heightened threat of suicide bombs and ambushes that trauma training can be life saving. Medics, emergency staff and military personnel with trauma training are invaluable in emergency situations and disaster zones, such as earthquake-hit countries. As the attacks in New York, London and Moscow have shown, terrorism is a continued threat to civilians all over the world.
Real Amputees, Real Training
Using real amputees in casualty simulation scenarios ensures our trauma training is as realistic as can be. Trauma training is at the heart of an Army's professionalism. Working with real life amputees in true-to-life conditions makes all the difference. When a soldier without a leg says he was lucky that day because a medic was on his vehicle, that's what trauma training boils down to: ensuring the right people act in the right way.
Often medics say: 'I was just doing what I was trained to do'.
Browse our website to find out more about the specialist training packages for Armed Forces, Medical and Rescue Services.
Because We Try Harder
We also provide amputees for roles in the film and television industries
Action Amps (ACS) on TV
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 there was a documentary by Jamie Coulson about Action Amps (ACS Ltd); who we are, what we do and why we do it. Click here to watch it.
