This lab deals with assessing and treating dislocations in the field. Various materials are used to teach students how to improvise effective extremity splints with available materials and expedition gear. Teaches students how to assess and rule out possible spine injuries in a wilderness context. This lab focuses on lifting and moving spine injured patients and subsequent immobilization on a backboard or litter. Each course has three major video simulations near the course end to help students practice in a realistic environmental situation.
Video is taken as students work through their simulations and reviewed immediately afterward.
As in many of the PAS drills, fake wounds, blood, etc. are used to increase reality. Patients will need to have long pants and shirts that may be cut by their rescuers.