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Category Archives: Check This Out!
L.L. Bean to offer Women’s-Only Wilderness First Aid
FREEPORT, ME – L.L. Bean has partnered with Wilderness Medical Associates to offer a Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course. This course, unlike the standard Wilderness First Aid, is available exclusively for women. WFA training is imperative for people who are … Continue reading
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When To Use Tourniquets
Tourniquets have a checkered history past and current combat in the SW Asian theaters has drawn new attention to them. Continue reading
WildER Med – Wilderness Medicine Conference
There are a number of wilderness medicine conferences that happen yearly both in North America and abroad that focus on general medical issues in the outdoors as well as more specific themes such as altitude, environmental emergencies, and disasters. The … Continue reading
Development in China
David Johnson (WMA International President and Medical Director) and Mike Webster (WMA International Executive Director) meet with executive members of both the Chinese Mountaineering Association and Chinese Olympic Committee in May 2012 in Toronto, Canada. Continue reading
Epinephrine ampules withdrawn
Specific lots of epinephrine ampules have been voluntarily withdrawn. Continue reading
Course Subscriber: Receive notifications when courses are added
Want to be Notified of New Courses? Course Subscriber is a service dedicated to notifying students when courses are added to wildmed.com. You choose the criteria: Type of course, the distance you are willing to travel, and dates that work … Continue reading
Where’s the Man?: Pacific Crest Trail, WA
Where’s the Man?: Pacific Crest Trail, WA WMA-certified Wilderness First Responder (WFR), LT, sent us this photo of him cruising along with the man alongside the caption below. Thank you for making the trails a better place! “The man soaring … Continue reading
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Wilderness First Responder – Scope of Practice (Draft)
In order to establish guidelines for comprehensive, thorough, and more consistent wilderness medical training, AORE and other organizations that hold a respectively large place in the field of wilderness medicine have signed off on the Wilderness First Responder SOP (Draft), a document that complements the Wilderness First Aid Scope of Practice.
Please consider helping AORE make a difference by reviewing this document if you have ever sponsored a WFR course, attended at WFR course, or instructed a WFR course. Does this document include the topics that you want your staff to know? As a participants of a Wilderness First Responder course, is this training enough to prepare you for backcountry medical emergencies? Are the elective topics sufficient? Please be clear, professional, and thorough. Continue reading
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Where’s the Man?: Iquitos, Peru
Submitted by Dr. David Johnson, WMA President & Medical Director. DJ in the Belen market of Iquitos, Peru. This venue winds forever along the river’s edge. It serves the population 7 days a week, offering all manner of food, herbs, spices, wood products, … Continue reading
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‘Where’s the Man?’ Contest Continues
Last year we began the ‘Where’s the Man?’ contest and received some great entries! This year, we will be continuing to collect submissions, which will all be posted on our blog and on our Facebook page. At the end of … Continue reading
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