Wilderness First Aid Specialization

First aid for wilderness medical emergencies. By the end of this course, you should be able to understand common medical problems encountered in a wilderness setting and how to treat them with little resources and identify ways to keep yourself and your group safer in a wilderness or low medical resource environment. 

Instructors: Angela Wright, MD +3 more

What you'll learn

  •   Understand common medical problems encountered in a wilderness setting. 
  •   Identify ways to keep yourself and your group safer in a wilderness or low medical resource environment. 
  •   Treatments of common medical problems encountered in a wilderness setting and an understanding of when to evacuate.

    • Skills you'll gain

  •   Health Assessment
  •   Patient Positioning
  •   First Aid
  •   Neurology
  •   Trauma Care
  •   Triage
  •   Emergency Response
  •   Patient Evaluation
  •   Splinting
  •   Medical Emergency
  •   Sanitation
  •   Emergency Medical Services

    • Specialization - 4 course series

    Once you have completed the Cousera certification, you may opt to demonstrate your learning and earn an e-WFA® certificate from the University of Colorado School of Medicine! To learn more, please visit https://www.coloradowm.org/ewfacert/.

    In this course, students will learn the basics of wilderness medicine, including how it is a unique clinical environment, and concepts of scene safety. They will learn how to perform a basic assessment of a patient, including a physical exam, gather history data using the SAMPLE approach, and how to evaluate a patient for a potential spinal cord injury.

    In this course, students will learn to identify and treat common traumatic injuries in the wilderness, and how to identify the difference between blunt and penetrating trauma. They will also be taught about common injuries of the chest, abdomen, pelvis, and signs and symptoms of different types of head trauma along with how to identify when a condition would warrant immediate evacuation.

    In this course, students will learn about common medical conditions that involve the heart, lungs, brain, abdominal and genital organs, how to treat these conditions, and when a condition would require evacuation. Students will also learn prevention measures to reduce the chance of developing diseases in the wilderness setting.

    In this course, students will learn about environmental injuries, how to treat them, and what conditions require evacuation. This will include animal bites/stings, and temperature-related emergencies, such as those that are heat or cold-related, lightning, altitude, and drowning. Students will also learn about important aspects of camp hygiene, and what to do in the event that evacuation is needed.

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