Wilderness
Advanced First Aid
40 hours over 4 days
Course Description
Wilderness Advanced First Aid introduces you to backcountry medicine and wilderness medical protocols. Specifically designed for the unique demands of remote settings, this course focuses on three areas. First, how to treat injuries when you are hours or days from a hospital. Second, you will learn how to give care in extreme environments of cold, heat, or altitude. Finally this course focuses on working with limited equipment and improvising. The course highlights preventative measures for environmental challenges and over use injuries.
Course Highlights
- No Prerequisites and Includes Heartsaver CPR
- Long Term Care of the Sick and Injured
- Improvisation Skills
- Patient Packaging and Evacuation Techniques
- Hands-on training and simulations with theatrical make-up and video
feedback
- Wilderness Medical Protocols: Anaphylaxis Treatment including injection training, Advanced
- Wound Management, Modified CPR, Spinal Assessment
Course Target
- Group Leaders on Local excursions and short trips
- AECSKG and CRC Trip Leaders qualification
- Assistant Group Leaders for more remote trips
Sample Course Outline
| DAY 1 | AM | PM | ||||
| 9.0 Hours | 0.5 | Introduction & Registration | 1.5 | CPR & Basic Life Support Skills | ||
| 1 | General Concepts | 1.5 | Circulatory System | |||
| 2 | Patient Assessment System | 1.5 | Respiratory System | |||
| 1 | CPR | |||||
| DAY 2 | AM | PM | ||||
| 9.0 Hours | 0.5 | Homework Review | 1.5 | Splints I (Extremities) | ||
| 1.5 | Nervous System | 1.5 | Lifting, Moving and Extrication | |||
| 1.5 | Spine Management | 1 | Litter Packaging | |||
| 1 | Musculoskeletal Injuries | 0.5 | Patient Assessment Drill | |||
| DAY 3 | AM | PM | ||||
| 9.0 Hours | 0.5 | Homework Review | 1 | Wounds & Burns | ||
| 0.5 | Blood Borne Pathogens | 0.5 | Wound Cleaning Lab | |||
| 1 | Allergies & Anaphylaxis | 0.5 | Improvised Carries | |||
| 0.5 | Injection Lab | 1 | Medical/ Legal Issues | |||
| 1 | Hypothermia | 2 | PAS Mini-simulations | |||
| 0.5 | Hyperthermia & Heat Illness | |||||
| DAY 4 | AM | PM | ||||
| 9.0 Hours | 1 | Homework Review | 0.5 | Lightning Injuries | ||
| 0.5 | Bites & Stings | 0.5 | Near Drowning | |||
| 1.5 | Backcountry Medical Problems | 2 | Simulation | |||
| 1.5 | PAS Drills | 1.5 | Final Exam and Wrap-up |
Course Information from
Wilderness Medical Associates - www.wildmed.ca
Equip yourself with one of our
expedition first aid kits, so that
you have the gear to suit your
training.
Diversify your outdoor skills
by taking one of our water rescue
courses. We offer courses for
recreational paddlers and
professional rescue teams.
WSS 2007