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Aug 31, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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REC 145 - Wilderness Advanced First Aid Description: Principles and skills to make critical first aid and evacuation decisions and take appropriate action in remote locations where medical assistance is more than one hour away.
Credits: 2 Lecture: 1 Lab: 2
Course Content:
- Scene safety and universal precautions
- Wilderness first aid kits
- Patient exam, vital signs, history and documentation
- Unconscious patients
- Adult CPR, cardiac emergencies, and respiratory emergencies
- Chest injuries, head injuries, spinal cord injury management
- Back boarding, litter packaging and carrying
- Shock
- Wilderness wounds, burns and infections
- Fracture management, traction splinting, dislocations
- Cold injuries, heat and hydration
- Lightning and altitude illness
- Submersion incidents
- Bites, stings and anaphylaxis
- Abdominal emergencies
- Common simple problems
Learning Outcomes:
- Assess scene safety and use universal precautions. (1)
- Perform primary and secondary patient assessments in the wilderness setting. (3)
- Perform CPR in a wilderness setting. (5)
- Render first aid in a wilderness setting. (1, 4-16)
- Create a first aid kit for wilderness use. (2)
- Prepare a patient for evacuation. (7)
- Plan and perform a rescue and evacuation. (7)
- Document patient information, vital signs, assessment, plan and patient monitoring. (3)
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