Whatever your material of choice to use for moulage, be it latex, gelatin, wax, or silicone make sure you understand the performance of your materials and it’s interactions for the greatest success in your moulage outcomes. Make sure that you understand how to create the injury so that your results will be as close to real-to-the-eye as possible.

Many first responder medical personnel often comment on the challenges they continually encounter to hone or upgrade their skill sets through professional casualty simulation instruction, application, and performance. This is largely due to funding deficits and/or lack of access to higher value educational resources and qualified schooling. As such, their field training exercises often fall short of providing measurable results that can enhance their speed and techniques in injury recognition and triage time.

In part 3 of this series we covered some important elements to keep in mind for maintaining high realism results when selecting and using theatrical bloods in your casualty simulation event or training exercise.

Moulage techniques came to the forefront of Army soldier training in the very early 1960’s for creating and facilitating casualty simulation experiences. Today, casualty simulation moulage has evolved to serve many training platforms with it’s own creative energy and unique styling potential that produces hyper-realistic results for any military/civilian emergency response training environment.

In part 3 of this series we covered some important elements to keep in mind for maintaining high realism results when selecting and using theatrical bloods in your casualty simulation event or training exercise.

Dramatizing blood effects properly in bleeding injury simulations requires a bit of knowledge in how the human body hemorrhages as a result of trauma.

Dramatizing blood effects properly in bleeding injury simulations requires a bit of knowledge in how the human body hemorrhages as a result of trauma.

Dramatizing blood effects properly in bleeding injury simulations requires a bit of knowledge in how the human body hemorrhages as a result of trauma.