Training Videos

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• Wilderness First Aid Made Simple
  • How to Use Care Flow Diagrams
• Primary Assessment
  • Primary Assessment – Skills Demonstration Video
• Secondary Assessment
  • SAMPLE History – Skills Demonstration Video
  • Vital Signs – Skills Demonstration Video
  • Secondary Assessment Physical Exam – Skills Demonstration Video
• Extremity Splinting Skills
  • Leg Splinting – Skills Demonstration Video
    • Leg Splinting Made Simple – Skills Checklist
  • Arm Splinting – Skills Demonstration Video
    • Arm Splinting Made Simple – Skills Checklists
• Spine Clearing Skills
  • Spine Clearing – Skills Demonstration Video

Products discussed during the course

• First Aid Kits and Supplies
• First Aid Kit Suggestions

Book
Wilderness First Aid Made Easy is available from Amazon and Amazon Kindle.

• Wilderness First Aid Made Easy – Paperback 
• Wilderness First Aid Made Easy – Kindle 

Downloadable Resources

• Arm Splinting Made Simple – Skills and Quality Control Checklists
• Overall Patient Care Flow Diagram – Wilderness First Aid
• Hypothermia – Signs, Symptoms and Treatment
• Leg Splinting Made Simple – Skills and Quality Control Checklist
• Spine Clearing Flow Diagram
• SOAP Note – Download and print for your first aid kit
• First Aid Kit Suggestions
  

Wilderness First Aid Course Agenda

• Day One Course Agenda
• Day Two Course Agenda

Sources

• AN EVIDENCE-BASED PREHOSPITAL GUIDELINE FOR EXTERNAL HEMORRHAGE CONTROL: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS COMMITTEE ON TRAUMA. (2014, May 18). Retrieved from https://www.facs.org/~/media/files/quality programs/trauma/education/acscot evidencebased prehospital guidelines for external hemmorrhage control.ashx
  
• Auerbach, Paul S. Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to Emergency Medical Procedures and First Aid. London: Elsevier Health Sciences, 2009.
  
• Davis, Chris, Anna Engeln, Eric L. Johnson, Scott E. Mcintosh, Ken Zafren, Arthur A. Islas, Christopher Mcstay, William R. Smith, and Tracy Cushing. “Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Lightning Injuries: 2014 Update.” Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 25, no. 4 (2014).
  
• Dow, Jennifer, Gordon G. Giesbrecht, Daniel F. Danzl, Hermann Brugger, Emily B. Sagalyn, Beat Walpoth, Paul S. Auerbach, et al. “Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Out-of-Hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia: 2019 Update.” Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 30, no. 4 (2019).
  
• Hawkins, Seth C., Jason Williams, Brad L. Bennett, Arthur Islas, Dietrich Whitfield Kayser, and Robert Quinn. “Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Spinal Cord Protection.” Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 30, no. 4 (2019).
  
• Hubbell, F. (2014). Wildcare: Working in less than desirable conditions and remote environments. Conway, NH: TMC Books/Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities.
  
• Isaac, J. (2013). Outward Bound wilderness first-aid handbook. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press.
  
• Lipman, Grant S., Kurt P. Eifling, Mark A. Ellis, Flavio G. Gaudio, Edward M. Otten, and Colin K. Grissom. “Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Heat-Related Illness: 2019 Update.” Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, June 17, 2019 .
  
• Luks, Andrew M., Paul S. Auerbach, Luanne Freer, Colin K. Grissom, Linda E. Keyes, Scott E. Mcintosh, George W. Rodway, Robert B. Schoene, Ken Zafren, and Peter H. Hackett. “Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness: 2019 Update.” Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 30, no. 4 (2019).
  
• Mcintosh, Scott E., Matthew Opacic, Luanne Freer, Colin K. Grissom, Paul S. Auerbach, George W. Rodway, Amalia Cochran, et al. “Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Frostbite: 2014 Update.” Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 25, no. 4 (2014).
  
• NAEMT. (2016). PHTLS: Prehospital trauma life support (8th ed.). S.l.: JONES & BARTLETT LEARNING.
  
• Pollak, A. N., Edgerly, D., McKenna, K., & Vitberg, D. A. (2017). Emergency care and transportation of the sick and injured (11th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  
• Quinn, Robert H., Ian Wedmore, Eric L. Johnson, Arthur A. Islas, Anne Anglim, Ken Zafren, Cindy Bitter, and Vicki Mazzorana. “Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Basic Wound Management in the Austere Environment: 2014 Update.” Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 25, no. 4 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2014.08.015.
  
• Schimelpfenig, T., & Safford, J. M. (2016). NOLS wilderness medicine. Lanham, MD: Stackpole Books.
  
• Thygerson, A. L., Thygerson, S. M., Thygerson, J. S., Backer, H. D., Bowman, W. D., Paton, B. C., . . . Backer, H. D. (2019). Wilderness first aid: Emergency care in remote locations. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.