LOCATION: LionsGuard, 41 Commerce Park Dr, Barrie, ON
DURATION:   40 hours

The Wilderness First Aid program is a 40 hour program built for rescuers who specialize in decision making, extrication, and transport in remote and wilderness settings.  This program teaches you leadership skills, decision making in non-traditional environments, and the skills to respond and provide care in a remote setting.  Wilderness First Responders are trained to provide care overnight, and up to a few days, as well as evacuation.  

Content

• Planning
• Your health
• Assessment
• Airway emergencies
• Breathing and circulation emergencies
• Cardiac and respiratory arrest (includes CPR-C)
• Wound care
• Head and spine injuries
• Bone, muscle and joint injuries
• Sudden medical emergencies
• Environmental emergencies
• Poisons
• Extended care
• Evacuation: transporting the ill or injured person
• Establishing control through leadership
• Legal considerations
• Incident reporting, trip / float / flight plan
• Human and environmental hazard assessment
• Critical incident stress
• Tourniquets
• Rescue breathing, Full-face helmet removal
• Discontinuing spinal precautions
• Realigning fractures / relocating dislocations
• Communications and signaling

Have you completed a Get Outdoors certified course? Are you worried your skills may fade? Want to have fun as an instructor assistant in scenarios? Want to volunteer with Get Outdoors? Ask the staff how we can help you with your goals.