About this Course

The 4 days Wilderness First Aid Course is specially designed to enable participants to respond to first aid emergencies in settings where professional medical help is more than 2 hours away.

One of the unique features of this course is its scenario-based casualty management training approach. The course covers a wide range of real life simulations likely to in the wilderness setting and the intervention of first aid response.

Complex situational simulations are conducted to train, equip participants with life saving, leadership, teamwork and quick decision making skills.

Course Content

• Introduction to programme objections
  
• Chest Pain/Drowning/CPR/AED
  
• CPR/AED certification tests
  
• Use of pocket mask for resuscitation
  
• Casualty Assessment System (CAM) (RSE and Primary Survey)
  
• Arresting of haemorrhages and management of shock
  
• Wound management in the field
  
• Immobilisation of fractures, soft injuries management (sprains, dislocation, crush))
  
• Field spinal management
  
• Management of head injuries and epilepsies
  
• Base-line vital signs/ record and report – Casualty’s Chart
  
• Casualty management
  
• Bites and stings management
  
• Heat & cold injuries, altitude illness
  
• Chest injuries, asthmatic attack
  
• Abdominal Injuries
  
• Burns management
  
• Eye & Foreign objects in the ear
  
• Improvised stretcher
  
• Lifting and transferring of casualty
  

Duration

4 Days

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