Advanced Wilderness and Remote First Aid:

All programs comply with the 2005 ILCOR and CoSTAR guidelines!

This course prepares individuals to provide care to an injured person for more than 24 hours and includes and expands upon all material from Wilderness and Remote First Aid plus more scenarios and several more advanced topics. It focuses on:
    - Outdoor leaders
    - People who take extended trips into the wilderness or remote locations
    - People who provide recreational or leisure experiences as a professional guide
 

Course length is 40 hours with at least 50% taught in an outdoor setting.

Certification: Red Cross Advanced Wilderness and Remote First Aid, AED & Level 'C' CPR. Valid for 3 years.

Includes all of:

                                       Advanced Wilderness First Aid Topics
     
Tourniquets   Helmet Removal
When to Discontinue Spinal Precautions   In-line Traction
Reducing Dislocations   Pulse Check
Rescue Breathing   Putting Limbs in Anatomical Position
 
                                            Wilderness First Aid Topics
     
Extended Care   Your Health
Secondary Scenario   Backboards
Pressure Points for Deadly Bleeds   When to Discontinue CPR
Improvised Cervical Collars   Moving Head to In-line Position
When to Remove Impaled Objects   Irrigating Wounds
Hypothermia Wrap   High Altitude Illnesses
Immersion Foot   Scuba Diving Emergencies
Basic Ice & Water rescues   Communication Devices
Digestive System Problems   Evaluation
Evacuation and Transportation   What is the P.L.A.N.?
     

                                               Standard First Aid Topics
     
Adult CPR   ABC Recap & Rolls
Adult Unconscious Choking   Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
Alternative Airway, with helmet   Infant CPR
Child CPR   Infant Conscious Choking
Child Unconscious Choking   Diabetes
Check Call Care (Action)   Seizures
Conscious Choking   Poisons
Asthma   Heat Illness
Allergies   Cold Illness
Cardiovascular Risk Factors   Bleeds
Heart Attack/Angina   Burns
Stroke/TIA   Muscle, Bone & Joint
Secondary Survey (advanced)   Triage/Multi-person incident
Head & Spine (eye, ear, nose, mouth)   Group Testing

 

Certified Instruction: Canadian Red Cross and Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada