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Wilderness First Aid 90 – The Advanced Course
Designed to provide the skills to necessary make critical medical & evacuation decisions for those where responsibility to others demands a high level of decision-making skill and for wilderness trips where there may be complex, difficult evacuations and delays. You will learn to be innovative with your resources and improvise first aid techniques through challenging practical sessions and outdoor simulations.
Includes the Full Menu: Appetizers, Breakfast, Elevenses, Second Breakfast, Dinner and a Double Feature.
Wilderness First Aid 50 – The Essential Course
Designed to provide the skills necessary to implement long-term care and stabilization until medical help arrives for those where responsibility to others demands a high level of decision-making skill and for wilderness trips where easy evacuations are possible. You will learn to be innovative with your resources and improvise first aid techniques through challenging practical sessions and outdoor simulations.
Includes: The Appetizers, Breakfast, and the Elevenses.
Appetizers
Wilderness First Aid 101
| Intro Raw and to the Point |
30 |
| Scope of Practice Sichuany. Try it. |
10 |
| Good Samaritan Law vs. Duty to Care A starter sized portion of when you’re covered and when you aren’t. |
15 |
| Negligence |
10 |
| Critical Incident Stress Debriefing |
10 |
| Patient History and Vitals Whet your appetite for first aid by learning how and why to record critical patient history. Comes with a side of taking vitals, including posterior tibial. |
50 |
| Infection Risk Management Personal protective equipment, with side dip of transmission theory. |
10 |
| Water Disinfection Thirsty? Comes with boiling, filtering, chemical treatment and optional coagulation flocculation. |
30 |
| Dressings and Bandaging Slings, Spica wraps, pressure bandages and more. |
45 |
| Deadly Bleeding With pressure and two types of positionings. If you like RICE, you’ll like this. |
10 |
| Nosebleeds (Epistaxis) |
10 |
| General Principles of Immobilization It’s like the old joke. If it hurts to move it, don’t move it. Comes with position of function. |
45 |
| Arm Splints Ask about our different sizes. |
45 |
| Neck Collars Firm and well padded. Kind of like pastry, only not really. |
45 |
| Pelvic Injury Packaging Tied and girdled to keep all that goodness in. Make it yourself on a Friday night. |
30 |
| Abdominal Injury Packaging Corrals are sort of like doughnuts, but this one comes with excellent heat loss prevention. |
45 |
| Ankle Sprains (Tincture of Benzoine, Tape) Two parts sticky and one part twisty, great if you want a light snack that’ll keep you going. |
20 |
| Leg Splints Dad’s Favourite! Customizable to your tastes, our leg splints are made fresh-to-order and come with padding, plantars and immobilization. |
70 |
| Evacuation Planning Big enough to share. Comes with how to get out to help, as well as how to bring help in. Includes pre trip planning. |
30 |
| Electronic Communication Devices Sample sized snacks including cell phones, sat phones, PLBs and radios (two different kinds!). |
20 |
| Air Evacuation Helicopter theory. Crunchy or smooth. |
30 |
| Shock – Hypovolemia The perfect meal for anybody pale cool and sweaty. Also perfect for anybody pink warm and dry. |
10 |
| Scene Assessment Looks like an appy, but eats like a meal. Comes with a delectable assortment of hazards, mechanisms, and patients. |
10 |
| Triage More food than you can eat. Where will you start? |
10 |
| Primary Survey A full sized meal to keep you going all day. Comes with Oral Pharyngeal Airways, ¾ prone positions (over easy), and initial shock treatment (white or Whole wheat). |
65 |
| Primary Survey Problems Deadly Bleeding, Unresponsiveness. Great side dishes with an order of Primary Survey. |
10 |
| Secondary Survey Full sized portions of Head to Toe exams, including range of motion. Served with a warm side of Secondary Shock Treatment. |
80 |
| Head Injuries Some are crunchy, some are smooth. Try ‘em all! |
15 |
| Spine Injuries Considered a delicacy in most parts of the world. Find out why. |
15 |
| Rib Injuries Order ‘em above nipple line or below, but the chef recommends you hold the laughter, sneezing, breathing, walking, sitting and standing. |
15 |
| Abdominal/Pelvic Injuries It is what it’s called, so consider this description a bonus: injuries in the abdominal/pelvic regions. |
15 |
| Orthopedic Injuries Classically prepared arm and leg injuries. A good old fashioned ‘meat’ and potatoes meal. *vegan friendly. |
15 |
| Wilderness Considerations for CPR A delicious dish of rigor mortis, dependant lividity and metabolic acidosis. Served on a firm, flat surface. |
15 |
Breakfast
The Most Important Meal of the Day
| Dehydration and Electrolyte Imbalance The beverage selection includes: Water. Choose wisely. Comes with fun extras like sodium and potassium. |
20 |
| Drowning and Near Drowning |
15 |
| Hypothermia A cold meal prepared with a careful (mis)selection of equipment, exposure and environment. Pairs superbly with a Burrito (see our appetizer menu). |
25 |
| Hyperthermia Muy Caliente! Imagine the hottest hot wings you’ve ever had and the hottest weather you’ve ever been in. Now imagine them making babies. |
20 |
| CO Poisoning This meal sneaks up on you. Like Iocane powder, you can’t smell it. Unlike Iocane powder, you haven’t built up an immunity. |
10 |
| Wound Care Supplies A veritable Smorgasbord of dressings and tools. Selections include various flavours of gauze and dressings as well as adhesives and antiseptics. Careful with the scalpels! |
10 |
| General Small Wound Care Consists of four ingredients: Clean, Warm, Dry, Debridement. Served with a side of Infection. |
20 |
| Frostbite Kind of like frozen chicken fingers. Only they’re not chicken fingers. They’re yours. |
15 |
| Wound Closure Demo World Famous. |
5 |
| Burns Your choice of Rare, Medium or Third Degree. Soaked before serving and wrapped gently. |
20 |
| Sun Damage (Skin & Eyes) Working on the base is loaded with trans fats. Try our healthy alternative. |
20 |
| Blister Prevention and Care Prevention is more popular with the smart kids, but Care comes with both jelly-filled doughnuts and un-jelly-filled doughnuts. |
15 |
| Eye Trauma (Foreign Body Removal Demo) |
15 |
| Heart Attack (MI) Made of equal parts Myo, Cardio, and Infarction, you can have your MI prepared in a variety of ways. This dish is popular with the ladies. Honto. |
15 |
| Stroke (CVA) Two different flavours, embolytic or haemorrhagic. Don’t worry though, they both taste the same. |
10 |
| Long Term Care A meal to sustain you for the long haul. Tasty treats such as homemade diapers and tampon removal. Seasoned with monitoring skills and dressing changes. |
20 |
| Scenario Practice |
240 |
2nd Breakfast
The Second Most Important Meal of the Day
| Risk Management A build it yourself type meal. Choose your dose of likelihood and your dose of consequence. Mix thoroughly and see what happens. |
90 |
| Med Forms/Participant Screening Mmn. Paperwork is tasty. And even if it isn’t, your body needs it. Eat up, junior. |
30 |
| Medication in the Wilderness Some flavour combinations are awesome. Like Peanut butter and Guava beans. And then there are an acquired tastes, like medications and the wilderness. |
30 |
| Orthopedic Re-alignment A fun food served at funny angles. You can fix it up yourself. One elbow per arm, please. |
30 |
| Dislocations A selection of joints that you can reduce (make less bad). Please stick to the menu options. No special orders. |
60 |
| Clearing the Spine Don’t order a big meal if you don’t need one. Maybe this dish, made of focused exams, will be all you need to be full. |
60 |
| Anaphylaxis 100% peanut free. We cannot guarantee, however, that our lesson hasn’t come into contact with shellfish, or containers holding shellfish. Comes with practice Auto-injector. |
60 |
| First Aid Kits An assortment of things from this menu would make a great take home doggy bag. But which to choose? Find out here. |
15 |
| Written Test No stress provided. If you want any, bring it with you. |
90 |
Elevenses
Fun Anytime, Goes Great with Breakfast!
| Outdoor Simulation Training – The Chef’s Special Tasty scenario-based training complete with patients, predicaments, and moulage. Seasoned with the best local elements (in season). It’s like a super-awesome buffet. |
430 |
| Rolls, Slides and Lifts Different ways to move your patients around when necessary. Best selection in town. |
60 |
| Burrito (Heat Loss Prevention) A carefully wrapped package with an impressive variety of insulators. Spiced with warm water bottles. |
20 |
| Patient Evacuation Choose from a variety of back carries and stretcher selections, or order lots to share. |
90 |
Dinner and A…
Not Too Ill to Eat Dinner, Are You?
| Life Threatening Injuries An exciting dish comprised of flail chest, pnuemothorax, hemothorax, and tension pneumothorax. |
45 |
| Lightning |
10 |
| Illness and History Documentation Paperwork is the cornerstone of any good first aid diet. |
10 |
| Detailed Patient Exams – Illness For those who like to poke, prod and listen. Your choice of CNS exam, chest exam, or abdominal exam. |
60 |
| Chronic Illness A dish to enjoy again and again. Comes in four flavours: seizure, asthma, angina and diabetes. |
70 |
| Chronic Medical Problems Nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, constipation fecal impaction, and peptic ulcers. All of your favourites in one place. |
15 |
| Severe Abdominal Illness For –itis lovers. Appendicitis, Pancreatitis, cholecystitis, pylonephritis and peritonitis. Oh, and Kidney stones. |
20 |
| Genitourinary Conditions Boys or girls: enjoy a helping of Urinary Tract infection. |
10 |
| Female Specific Problems Vaginal infections, toxic shock syndrome and pregnancy complications strong enough for a man, but pH balanced for a woman. |
10 |
| Male Specific Problems Epididymitis and Testicular torsion. Both come in only one flavour: Ouch! |
10 |
| Zooinosis, Envenomation, Poisoning If food poisoning (ingested poisoning) isn’t enough for you, try a helping of hymenoptra bites, black widow spider bites, rattlesnake bites, rabies, tick-borne diseases and hanta virus pulmonary syndrome. |
60 |
| Trenchfoot Capture the romantic feeling of Europe in the 1930s. In your boots. Comes with Blebs. |
10 |
| Eye Injuries/Disorders |
20 |
| Dental Injuries/Disorders |
20 |
| Overuse Injuries |
15 |
| Wound Closure Practical A house specialty and crowd favourite. |
20 |
Double Feature
What’s Dinner Without a Show?
| Two For the Price of… Well, Two. 600ea. A double dose of entertainment, just like the old fashioned grind-houses of yore from long ago. Each feature comes replete with scenario practicals including simulated injuries, theater makeup and a healthy dose of whatever elements are in season. |
1200 |
Complimentary (It’s Free!)
No Hidden Charges, Honest
| Exams Primary Survey exam, Secondary survey exam, Illness exam and Written exam. As always, stress is not provided, but you can bring your own if you really, really want to. |
600 |
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