Description
Course Overview
This course teaches the basics of extended care in low resource environments where definitive care may be severely delayed or inacessible.
This course has no prerequisites. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.
This course meets the recommended curriculum of the Wilderness Medical Education Collaborative and successful graduates will be awarded both a WAFA and AAFA certification.
Course Schedule
Day 1: General Principles, Vital Signs, Patient Assessment, BLS, Anatomy & Physiology, Critical Systems Problems
Day 2: Anatomy & Physiology, Critical Systems Problems (ctd), Lifting Moving & Extrication, The Spine Injured Patient, Litter Carries, Improvised Litters, Musculoskeletal Injuries
Day 3: Allergy & Anaphylaxis, Wounds & Burns, Exposure Illness & Injury, Toxins & Envenomations, Submersion Injury, Electricity & Lightning Injury
Day 4: Triage, General Austere Medicine, Simulation, Exam
