1leglance
2007 Expedition Trophy Champion, Overland Certifie
I know others around here have attending wilderness medical training but I thought I would post up about my recent experience getting WUMPed...Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professionals = Wilderness First Responder.
Last week I completed 5 days of intense Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professionals in Flagstaff, mid 20's at night & mid 40's during the day. And they had us in the snow all the time practicing what we were being taught.
It was a great class and I highly recommend that everyone take some level of wilderness med training through WMI/NOLS http://www.nols.edu/wmi as they have a great setup and my instructors were top notch!. Anything put on by Pete Waka & Marc Yeston is worth attending.
The night training was very cool and I got to be a suprise patient. We had teams of 5 and 1 of our team got "hurt", after 1 hour I then had a "seizure" and that really cranked the pressure up. In the first case they knew it wasn't real, but in mine they weren't so sure.
Read more about it here
http://disabledexplorers.com/id14.html
Last week I completed 5 days of intense Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professionals in Flagstaff, mid 20's at night & mid 40's during the day. And they had us in the snow all the time practicing what we were being taught.
It was a great class and I highly recommend that everyone take some level of wilderness med training through WMI/NOLS http://www.nols.edu/wmi as they have a great setup and my instructors were top notch!. Anything put on by Pete Waka & Marc Yeston is worth attending.
The night training was very cool and I got to be a suprise patient. We had teams of 5 and 1 of our team got "hurt", after 1 hour I then had a "seizure" and that really cranked the pressure up. In the first case they knew it wasn't real, but in mine they weren't so sure.
Read more about it here
http://disabledexplorers.com/id14.html
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