Wilderness First Aid

Great practical first aid training for all who live, work and play in the backcountry!

What: 2 year certification in Wilderness First Aid and CPR
Where: Matagamon High Adventure Base, Grand Lake Matagamon, 27 miles NW of Patten, Maine on Rt. 159, North Gate of BSP
When: May 31 and June 1, 2008, approx. 8:00 am to 4 pm.
Boarding participants welcome evening of May 30
Cost: Course and lunches only—$100
Course with lodging and meals—$135
Sponsor: Maine High Adventure, Katahdin Area Council, BSA
To confirm space and register: call 1-800 763-4499, or email info@mainehighadventure.org Instruction: Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO)
For more info about SOLO: www.soloschools.com

Wilderness First Aid (WFA) is SOLO’s most popular course and it creates a solid foundation in the basics of backcountry medical care. Started as the “Mountain/Woods First Aid” course in 1975, this was the first course of its kind in the United States, and it is the curriculum upon which all other backcountry medicine courses are based. WFA COURSE TOPICS: Anatomy of a Wilderness Crisis, Anatomy of the Musculoskeletal System, Asthma, Backcountry Essentials, Cold-Related Injuries, Environmental Emergencies & Survival Skills (including lightning), Heat-Related Injuries, Medical Emergencies & Critical Care, Orthopedics, Patient Assessment System, Patient Lifting & Moving, Principles of Fracture Care, Rescue Plan, Response & Assessment, Soft Tissue Injuries & Medical Emergencies, Spinal Cord Injury Management, Sprains & Strains, Techniques, The Human Animal, Trauma—Musculoskeletal Injuries, Trauma—Soft Tissue Injuries, Universal Precautions, Use of Epinephrine.

— excerpted from www.soloschools.com/wfa