Instructors: Dr. Alana Hawley, Raz Peel, Dr. Alec Ritchie, Dr. Courtney Thompson
Dates: Sept 9 and 10
Times: 8:00-17:00 (both days)
Description: Advanced Wilderness Life Support™ is a 16 hour (2 day) certification course intended exclusively for medical professionals. The course curriculum attempts to strike a balance between didactic lectures and hands-on instruction to most effectively train students in managing medical situations in the remote context. Course topics include professional wilderness management of hypothermia and cold injury, avalanche, altitude related problems, patient packaging & evacuation, medical problems, submersion injuries, lightning strikes, wound and musculoskeletal injury, wilderness medical kits, as well as sessions on basic survival and search and rescue fundamentals.
Min # of registrants: 10
Max # of registrants: 28
PRICE: Registration opening soon