This 1-day (.8 CEU) outdoor course in Jackson, Wyoming provides PTs, PTAs, and OTs with strategies for leadership and patient care when encountering serious trauma or illnesses in remote backcountry locations.
Realistic hands-on scenarios will be used to help participants leverage their clinical skills to identify and provide intervention for a variety of potentially life-threatening conditions. The scenarios will be based on the presenters’ experiences providing point-of-contact backcountry patient care as PTs in the U.S. National Park Service, Jenny Lake Rangers in Wilderness Search and Rescue, Wildland Firefighting, and on the frontline during military deployments.
Your will learn to:
use your training and clinical skills to provide leadership during serious medical emergencies.
use your knowledge of anatomy and physiology to provide field management of life-threatening conditions including acute bleeding, brain trauma, respiratory distress, blood sugar emergencies, drug overdose and anaphylaxis.
apply your manual skills for acute stabilization and management of fractures and dislocations.
package and transport inured people across rough terrain.