WILDERNESS ADVANCED FIRST AID
The Wilderness Advanced First Aid course is taught by professional medics with extensive experience in remote wilderness conditions. Classroom lectures and demonstrations are combined with realistic scenarios where our instructors will challenge you to practise your new skills and knowledge.
At the end of the course, a very realistic victim evacuation simulation overnight will give you the opportunity to put into practice everything you’ve learnt through the week. The last and additional 2 days we offer make this course different from other Basic Life Support or Wilderness First Responder courses making it unique in its kind, vibrating the EWES philosophy and energy.
This hands-on training course is designed to meet the needs of wilderness guides, mountain leaders, and those working in remote locations or conflict areas around the world. The course focuses on practices and procedures for initial and prolonged care for a patient in the wilderness or remote environments when help may be hours or days away.
NEXT COURSE DATES
Sept 28th - Oct 3rd, 2025
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in hostile environments and use of semi-automatic defibrillator
Response to traumatic pathology in remote environments such as brain injury, chest trauma, abdomen trauma, nailed objects, wounds, fractures, dislocations and sprains, mobilizations and immobilizations.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Days 4 & 5
Response to medical pathologies in remote environments such as respiratory problems, chest pain, syncope, allergy, traveler’s pathology, bites, stings
Rescue and survival practices in a real situation of assistance and transfers of a victim in a hostile environment.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Stabilisation, treatment and evacuation guidelines for remote environments
Accident scene management & group leadership
Basic life support & automated external defibrillator
04
Practical skills; lifting, moving and extrication, spine stabilisation and litter packaging, wound cleaning and exploration
05
Evacuation procedures; helicopter safety, search and rescue, and working with emergency medical services, rope and rescue
06
Environmental topics: exposure control, bites and stings, altitude illness, cold injuries, thermoregulation, lightning, near drowning
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Medical presentations; infectious diseases, asthma, diabetic emergencies, atherosclerosis, angina, heart attack, & stroke, allergies and anaphylaxis
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Musculoskeletal systems; spine injury assessment, musculoskeletal injuries, extremity splinting, dislocations
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Wilderness medicine & medical kits
