Wilderness First Aid Certification (Class
Calendar)
This course is a great place to start for anyone who wants to be much more medically
self-sufficient. The usage for this material ranges from just being able to take
care of your own family in a home emergency, to backpacking, hiking or camping trips,
to living in a more rural area, to being stranded in a remote location, to a hurricane
Katrina (or worse) situation.
The 16-hour Wilderness First Aid Certification class covers treatment of trauma
and illness most commonly encountered in a remote, disaster or wilderness situation. The curriculum covers primary and secondary
survey, extrication, diagnosing and treating a wide variety of trauma and life-threatening
situations, splinting, bandaging, high altitude injuries, heat and cold injuries,
disease and infection, snake and insect bites & stings, shock, head injuries, water
purification, fluid replacement, building first aid kits and much more. At least
50% of this class is hands-on training and practice. You can't really learn these
skills without the pressure of having to perform first-aid tasks in the classroom to start
with. The testing is both hands-on and a written test. The certification is provided
by the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, which is created, endorsed and underwritten by the American Academy of
Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
A certification card is issued which is valid for 3 years.
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