A 80+ hour course that is normally conducted within 9-10 days. This course is designed for back-country professionals, guides, expedition team-members, outdoor educators or individuals who take extended personal back-country trips. The curriculum will address wilderness, urban and extended-care situations. This course is physically and mentally demanding as you will be challenged to think out-of-the-box and carry heavy loads for extended periods of time. You will learn wilderness medicine by being actively involved in scenario-based training, case studies, and “out-of-the-box challenges that will enhance your decision-making abilities. Our instructional sequence and “real-world” experience combined with WMTC curriculum make this course a very dynamic, energetic and intense course. Although the course content may seem similar to the WFA and WAFA; the WFR is a designed to cover these topics more extensively with an in-depth look at the medical standards, knowledge, skills and abilities. Successful completion awards the participant a WFR certification that lasts three years.
Upon graduation of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Apply sound judgment as a trip leader in a medical situation
- Understand Medical / Legal issues associated with wilderness medicine
- Operate within the Wilderness First Responder Scope of Practice
- Break-down & Explain Anatomy & Physiology of the human body
- Perform back-country essentials that prevent injuries
- Perform the Patient Assessment System (PAS)
- Properly lift and move a patient
- Perform CPR
- Operate an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- Treat for shock
- Apply spine management techniques
- Prevent, assess and treat breaks, strains and sprains
- Prevent, assess and treat trauma, environmental & medical injuries
- Prevent, assess and treat soft tissue injuries
- Properly document using the SOAP note
- Apply basic functions of a evacuation element
- Proper litter packaging
- Proper litter-carry techniques
- Construct an improvised litter
- Develop and Execute a Rescue Plan
- Perform Wilderness Stabilization & Bivouac
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Course fees vary depending on location
