Be Safe And Prepared In The Outdoors With Survival Med Online

Natalie Bonthius is a physician working with the National Park Service and Search and Rescue.  They’ve had a large spike in rescue calls as well as outdoor injuries for the past few years.  To make wilderness medicine education more accessible for the public, she’ll be teaching a Wilderness First Aid course over Zoom For the next few weeks.  The recording is also available. It has lots of interactive medical and survival scenarios: Basic Life Support and patient assessment Dressing wounds, stopping bleeding, and tying tourniquets Creating splints and assessing for bone breaks Hypothermia wraps & Improvised neck braces for spinal injuries Bears, Mountain Lions, Snakes, Scorpions, and other animals Lightning and temperature extremes Flash floods and canyoneering Altitude illness, Frostbite, Trench Foot, and Environmental Medicine Anaphylaxis and using an Epi Pen Drowning rescues Communicable diseases Getting Lost and Rescue Signaling Finding appropriate water and treating it Medicolegal topics and liability The entire course is $35 and includes the WFA certification exam.    https://survivalmedonline.org/wilderness-first-aid