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Winter Preparation Clinic
Cold weather brings about a desire to go out and play in the snow.
This also produces a unique environment in which preparation as a
rescuer is vital or they will themselves become the victim! |
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Patient Packaging and Evacuation
Once aid has been rendered, how will you get your victim out?
Proper patient packaging and evacuation are critical components in
continued care of the sick and injured in the wild.
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The Incredible
SAM Splint “How many different ways can you
use a SAM Splint?” Did you know that there are several different sizes
of this most ingenious stabilization device? Most rescuers feel fairly
well versed in the use of splints, and perhaps rightfully so. This
course will take you from beginning to end on the applications and uses
of the venerable SAM Splint. "Lots of hands-on". How can we fill an
hour and a half with this device? Come and see. |
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Night Operations
Working in the wilderness is a unique environment
and can be difficult
to affect rescue. Doing it in the dark brings about an untold
number of additional hazards. Unless everyone on your team has NVG's,
and there's an ample supply of ambient light, you can easily become part
of the problem and not the solution if you're not prepared...
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Environmental
Hazards
Heat, cold, altitude, humidity, lions and tigers and bears...(oh my)...
These environmental issues always have and always will play a part in
assessment, treatment, and extraction of patients in the wilderness.
It doesn't have to be 100 degrees for you to become dehydrated, as a
rescuer....
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Envenomations
Prevention and Treatment If you're 4 hours in the back
country by foot, out of cellular phone range, and YOU get bit by
something, what would you do? Sit and wait for rescue? But
no one knows you're injured? And no one will know within the next 4
hours... |
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Medical Problems in the Wilderness Medical problems don't
only happen in the city where 911 can be dialed and EMS response times
are less than 5 minutes. They happen while you're on vacation, to
people you're on vacation with. Hypertension and Diabetes know no
bounds... |
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Trauma Assessment
Trauma is it's own special "animal" and should be approached as such.
Learn the basics of understanding Mechanisms Of Injury (MOI) and
Kinematics as they relate to trauma, and the specific interventions that
can be applied on the basic level to those confronted with traumatic
injuries. |
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Preparation and Patient Assessment Patient assessment is
the foundation of patient care; without a good assessment, you can't
really render good care. |
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Preventing and Caring for Injuries "Injury prevention goes
a long way" goes the old adage. But it's that ounce of prevention
that, when you're carrying everything on your back in the back country,
equals that "pound" of cure. Learn the steps to take to prevent
soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries and then how to address them
for those who didn't prepare. |
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Pediatric
Wilderness Emergencies Pediatrics are the
most complicated patient group known to rescuers. Their age, prior
learning, and ability to deal with complicated circumstances often
inhibit and complicate their own rescue and medical treatment. This
course focuses on the key elements to in dealing with this age group in
the wilderness setting. |
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Survival and
Extended Patient Care It's getting dark, cold, and a storm
is moving in. You and your victim(s) are deep in the backwoods.
Movement out of the area is a dangerous proposition. Your best
option is to hunker down for the night and survive. Besides, one
of your team has a busted femur and can't walk out. How do you
stay warm, dry, and protected by the elements? How often should
you re-assess your patient? What are the signs of stability,
deterioration? What can you do about it? |
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Improvising in the Wilderness - Our Most
Popular Class!
Used all
of your medical supplies already? Are you looking at a pile of stuff
that your victim brought with them as “weight” for your egress back to
civilization? You’d better figure out how to stabilize that femur
fracture your team member just got during patient egress. And how will
you get him to safety? When to move and when to bivouac; that’s the
question. Not your common improvisational Wilderness Medicine course.
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