Wilderness First Aid Basic

$135

8 Hour ASHI certification course
Learn how to handle common injuries and illnesses when medical care is an hour away or more. Designed for those who work or travel in remote locations, these comprehensive classes will teach you what to look for and what to do in the event of an emergency, and direct you to the most appropriate type of care. Basic Wilderness First Aid is an intensive 8- to 10-hour course for those who are involved in wilderness recreation. This course may also meet the needs of volunteers and professionals who lead groups on short trips in relatively low-risk situations.

  • Introduction to the course, preparing for the outdoors, vital systems and shock
  • Wounds, burns, bleeding control, and infection
  • Bandaging practice
  • Patient assessment
  • Bones and joints, mechanism of injury, handling fractures
  • Splinting fractures
  • Treating sprains and dislocations
  • Assessing head and spinal injury
  • Thermoregulation, heat illness, hypothermia, frostbite, dressing for survival
  • Altitude illness, lightning strike, sun exposure
  • Bugs, snakes, bears, and contaminated water

 

Calendar:
3/3 Los Altos Hills
5/5 Los Altos Hills

 

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