Rescuer Basic skills: Firebuilding in adverse conditions (how’s, why, uses), improvised shelter building for self and injured, improvised litter making, and correct packaging in a Stokes Litter and Rescue SKED.įriday: 1-5 Outdoor Scenarios (cannot be named due to surprise nature of these situations and need for students to respond spontaneously. SPOT), including mapping GPS to physical maps, using map and compass to find a search location, preparing for an extended rescue in winter conditions, clothing and hiking skills to prevent rescuer issues, Surprise medical scenarios enroute to locations, assessing critical injured patients at location, and decision making and evacuation procedures for critically injured patients in a remote location, and procedures for safely evacuating time during after dark, nighttime hours.
Teaching basic skills on how to respond to a PLB (ex. All activities occur either in or around the Joe Dodge Lodge in the White Mountain National Forest near Pinkham Notch, NH. To facilitate evacuation decision making that factors in the risks to and needs of the rescue group.Ģ021 Activity Schedule. To promote survival of the rescuer in these given austere situations. To re-visit treatment protocols for individuals where time to definitive care may be days to weeks. To encourage creative problem solving using materials at hand to solve medical problems.
This course is designed to prepare students to assume the role of rescuer and provide care for injured or ill individuals in a wilderness or major disaster situation where critical infrastructure has been severely damaged and usual supplies are missing. Schedule: This course is fully out-of-doors despite the weather.īasic schedule: 6:30 Breakfast (provided)ħ-9: Indoors for Essential didactic lectures Students provide their own travel arrangements and are encouraged to carpool. Lodging and Meals: All provided in the course fees and provided by the AMC visitor services.Ĭost: 2021 Fee is $750.00. At the AMC Visitor Center and the Joe Dodge Lodge. Update posted yearly.Īrrival time: 12:30 hrs on the starting Thursday and Dismissal time 1200 hrs the following Sunday. Date determined yearly but timed to fall on or around Veteran’s Day Weekend. Mountain Medicine Wilderness and Disaster Medicine Fall Conferenceĭate: This is a full 3-day conference.
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