7-Day (72-Hour) WFR Cert

In-Person Course

The SOLO WFR course provides essential training in wilderness medicine, leadership, and critical thinking for professionals, leaders, and outdoor adventurers in the backcountry, low-resource, and remote environments. Taking a comprehensive and in-depth look at the standards and skills of dealing with: Response and Assessment, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Environmental Emergencies and Survival Skills, Soft Tissue Injuries, and Medical Emergencies. Although these appear to be the same basic topics covered in our two-day WFA course, they are covered far more extensively, and there is much more hands-on practice. Additional topics, such as CPR, are also included. Be prepared to be outdoors for most of the day on all eight days.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• The general principles of wilderness and rescue medicine with an emphasis on identifying medical emergencies, critical thinking, and risk management

• Patient assessment and emergency care, including CPR and AED use, basic life support skills, the patient assessment system, patient reporting, and calling for help

• Environmental medicine, including illness and injuries related to altitude, temperature, lightning, submersion, and environmental toxins

• Backcountry medicine, including the assessment and treatment of common medical problems

• Treatment of injuries from traumatic mechanisms and the treatment of musculoskeletal problems such as overuse syndromes and dislocations

• Non-technical lifting, moving, and extrication of patients with an emphasis on spinal motion restriction when applicable

• Practical skills including bleeding control, wound management, bandaging, splinting, spine stable patient packaging, hypothermia management, medical kit preparation

• Extended care protocols, including treatment of anaphylaxis, wound management, CPR in a remote setting, spine injury assessment, reduction of simple dislocations, and treatment for severe asthma

Course Details

STONEHEARTH OPEN LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES (SOLO)

Founded in 1974 SOLO is the oldest, most innovative, and one of the most respected wilderness medical curricula in the United States. The SOLO curriculum has been designed to give students the skills they need to respond to emergencies “beyond the golden hour” soloschools.com

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