Outdoor First Aid for Athletes: Mountain West

EMERGENCY FIRST AID SKILLS • SELF-PACED ONLINE STUDY

+ wildlife, weather & terrain hazards specific to AK, MT, ID, WY, NV, UT, & CO

$45

MEETS 2021 WFME STANDARDS FOR DISTRIBUTED & DISTANCE LEARNING IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Essential first aid & safety for outdoor adventures

90 Days Unlimited Access Includes:

Seven self-paced video classes teach you to assess injury and apply first aid for sprains, fractures, impalements and other bleeding wounds, animal bites, stings and many more outdoor emergencies

Ten practical skills videos & guides teach you how to improvise splints, compression bandages, tourniquets, cervical collars & more

Bonus regional U.S. Wilderness First Aid course covers local wildlife, environment & common rescue calls

What You'll Learn

Via self-paced online lectures, interactive video scenarios, medical case assignments, knowledge checks & quizzes

Injury assessment & basic life support

MARCH & SAMPLE patient assessment protocols; breathing, circulatory & nervous system assessment; spinal stabilization; basic CPR & Heimlich maneuver training

Common outdoor medical problems

Treating & stabilizing impalements, broken bones, finger amputations, muscle injuries, bleeding, wounds, cold injuries, heat illness, lightning and altitude ilness & more

Terrain, temperature & weather hazards

Terrain, temperature and weather hazards

Heat & cold related injuries; wildfires, lightning & burns; floods, tides & drowning; avalanches & earthquakes; acute mountain & altitude sickness (AMS, HACE, HAPE)

Wildlife attacks & treating injuries

Dealing with grizzlies, black bears, mountain lions; snakes & scorpions; other venomous animal & insect bites, stings, rabies prevention & communicable & waterborne diseases

Basic outdoor survival skills

Route, logistics & supplies planning; avoiding getting lost, signaling for rescue; finding and treating water for safe drinking, maximizing chances of being found alive

Special Mountain West Topics

Locations

Sierra Nevada, Rockies, East Cascades, Mojave, Desert, Great Basin Desert, High Desert, Painted Desert, San Rafael Desert, San Luis Valley, & Colorado River Valley

Mesa Verde National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Grand Teton, Lake Powell, Zion National Park, Yellowstone, Lake Tahoe, Big Sky, Glacier & other national parks

Popular state parks, forests, lakes, rivers & recreation areas

Hazards & Rescue Calls

Heat stroke, dehydration, getting lost & finding water; winter storm survival, avalanches, cold exposure, hypothermia & afterdrop, photokeratitis; altitude illness including AMS, HACE & HAPE, falls, & mountain & desert rescues

Lightning & wildfires, landslides, rock falls, flash floods & drownings, hot springs thermal injury

Moose, deer & elk, bighorn sheep, grizzly & black bears, bison, wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, plus Mojave, Midget-Faced, Western & Pacific, Prairie, Desert Massasauga, yellow & speckled rattlers; black widow & brown recluse spiders, scorpions

Giardia, Q Fever, chronic wasting disease, hantavirus, bubonic plague & more

Learn to improvise medical care
with everyday items

Skills training on basic CPR, tourniquets, neck braces, splints, compression bandages, Epipens & more

Practice your new skills at home or at work using yourself, family, friends or coworkers as patients

Improvise medical care with everyday items

Learn to treat injuries & save lives using everyday items to improvise splints, tourniquets & more

Certificate of Completion

Survival Med Outdoor First Aid for Athletes Certificate

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Survival Med Faculty

Natalie Bonthius, MD

Founder of Survival Med & Emergency & Survival Medicine Physician, UHS-Southern California

Carson Harper, MD

Emergency Medicine Physician, UHS-Southern California

Richard Ingebretsen, MD

Clinical Instructor & Wild Med U Program Director, University of Utah School of Medicine

Kevin
Grange

Paramedic & Firefighter, Jackson Hole Fire & EMS and Grand Teton National Park

Robert Scanlon, MD

Quadruple Board-Certified Critical Care, Pulmonology, Internal Medicine & Sleep Medicine Physician

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Outdoor First Aid for Athletes: Mountain West

Essential first aid & safety for outdoor adventures