SERT Training

Learn About SERT Training

Wisconsin SERT training is hands-on, scenario-driven, and taught by working EMS professionals. Students learn the same core skills used by first responders — and put them into practice in realistic team-based simulations.

Wisconsin SERT students moving a training patient on a backboard during an EMS training exercise

What Students Learn

A complete emergency response skill set — mapped to AHA, FEMA, and Stop the Bleed curricula.

CPR & AED

High-quality chest compressions, rescue breathing, and automated defibrillator use for adult, child, and infant patients — aligned with American Heart Association standards.

Bleeding Control

Direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquet application. Students train on Stop the Bleed protocols used by EMS and law enforcement nationwide.

Splinting & Bandaging

Immobilizing suspected fractures, applying pressure bandages, and stabilizing soft-tissue injuries with the supplies actually available in a school setting.

Patient Assessment

Primary and secondary assessment, vital signs, SAMPLE history, and identifying life-threats — the foundation of every emergency response.

Spinal Immobilization

Backboarding, cervical collar application, and coordinated multi-rescuer patient moves. Students learn to protect suspected spinal injuries safely.

Team Response & Triage

Working as a coordinated response team, communicating under pressure, and using START triage during multi-patient incidents.

Scenario Simulations

Full-scale, moulaged simulations run by EMS professionals — from single-patient calls to mass-casualty exercises with transport.

Leadership & Confidence

Every session builds decision-making, calm-under-pressure, and the confidence students need to act when it matters most.

In Action

Training in Practice

Photos from recent Wisconsin SERT training sessions.

Students practicing CPR chest compressions and rescue breathing on manikins — CPR & Rescue Breathing

Students splinting and bandaging a limb with an EMS instructor — Splinting & Bandaging

Student checking a training patient's pulse and vital signs — Patient Assessment & Vitals

Student applying a commercial tourniquet for severe bleeding control — Bleeding Control & Tourniquet Application

Team of students delivering coordinated patient care under pressure — Team-Based Emergency Response

Student applying wound care and a dressing during a training scenario — Wound Care & Dressing

Students using assisted patient movement and carry techniques — Patient Lifts & Carries

Students immobilizing and transporting a training patient on a backboard — Backboard Immobilization & Transport

Bring SERT training to your school

Tell us about your school and we’ll send the implementation kit, flyers, and next-cohort dates.

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