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Wilderness First Aid Session 1

Lecture: Mountaineering-Oriented First Aid

Wilderness First Aid Session 1 - Jefferson County Fire Protection Building (Port Townsend)

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Robert Foster
Primary Leader
  • For Beginners (Getting Started Series)

6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Thursday- classroom topics for presentation and discussion (chapters 1-4, 11, 18, Appendices on Improvised Litters and SOAP note)

  1. Wilderness First Aid introduction, legal issues, documentation
  2. Scene Size-up
  3. Patient Assessment
  4. Evacuation
Route/Place

Jefferson County Fire Protection Building (Port Townsend)

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Required Equipment

Required Equipment

  1. Practice Guidelines for Wilderness Emergency Care, 5th Ed. – Wilderness Medical Society.
  2. Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine, 3rd Ed – MOSBY; Auerbach, Donner, Weiss.
  3. Wilderness Medicine, 5th Ed – NOLS; Tod Schimelpfenig.
  4. Mountaineering First Aid, 5th Ed. - Mountaineers Books; Carline, Lentz, Macdonald.
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