Wilderness Medicine Intensive Skills Course & Whitewater Raft Adventure 2024 is held in the beautiful, rugged Mt. Shasta/Marble Mountains Wilderness areas of Northern California.
Wilderness Medicine Intensive Skills Course & Whitewater Raft Adventure 2024 covers topics such as:
- Outdoor Survival
- Whitewater raft skills
- Planning a Wilderness Survival Kit
- Orienteering (including map/compass, GPS)
- Wilderness survival (half-day course including improvised shelters, fire starting, signaling, useful knots)
- Basic mountaineering skills
- Swiftwater crossing techniques
- Basic wilderness rescue techniques / evacuation / improvised litters
- Route-finding
- Splinting: improvised techniques for the backcountry
- Wilderness and Travel Medicine
- Wilderness management of wounds / soft tissue injuries
- Evaluation and Management of trauma in a wilderness setting
- Hypothermia, frostbite, and other cold injuries
- Patient assessment in wilderness
- High altitude illness
- Wilderness Orthopedics - fractures, dislocations, sprains
- Wild animal attacks
- Snakebite
- Live patient scenarios and simulations
- Avalanche safety and rescue
- Lightning injuries and safety
Wilderness Medicine Intensive Skills Course & Whitewater Raft Adventure 2024 will be held in Mount Shasta, United States on 08-14 Jun 2024.