This course also includes improvising simple medical equipment with gear commonly used in outdoor sports. This is not your normal CPR, this is CPR as it relates to wilderness and remote environments. Besides covering all the skills and knowledge objectives of Adult CPR this course covers the specific issues that can cause respiratory and cardiac arrest in the wilderness. Issues such as drowning, lightning, avalanche burials, and when to stop CPR when help is extremely delayed are covered. The WFR-Refresher focuses on skill practice and scenarios to help the refreshing student sharpen their wilderness medicine skills.
Lectures are interactive and designed for refreshing students.
This course certificate is valid for three years. More information and course dates Top of Page Avalanche Awareness To safely enjoy winter and spring in the backcountry you need to know how to recognize and evaluate potential avalanche hazards. This course covers hazard recognition, snow pack characteristics and stability evaluation, safe route finding, transceiver use, prevention techniques and rescue methods. Both classroom and outdoor field practice are incorporated into this very useful course. Materials fee includes Snow Sense text and Life-Link avalanche inclinometer.