Wilderness First Aid

This Wilderness First Aid certification course provides a practical foundation in wilderness medicine for outdoor enthusiasts. The course is a 2 day, 20 hour class teaching patient assessment and treatment guidelines for common wilderness medical problems and teaches methods to manage medical and trauma emergencies in the wilderness when evacuation is unavailable or unnecessary.

The teaching style is engaging and hands-on comprised of brief lectures followed by hands on practical demonstration with discussion.

Curriculum:

• Patient assessments with demonstration
• Spinal Immobilization and patient transport
• Fractures, dislocations, and sprains
• Vital sign assessment
• Wound management with lectures on abdominal and chest injuries
• Bites and envenomations
• Bleeding and shock
• Common medical problems
• Environmental injuries (drowning, lightning, falls)
• First aid kits
• Hyperthermia
• Hypothermia
• Frostbite
• Foot care

In addition, the wild plant instructors will discuss the poisonous and toxic plants in the Rocky Mountains and there will be a lecture regarding waterborne pathogens and water purification.