EMS 247LAB - Wilderness Emergency Care Laboratory

• Define the goals, applicability, and limitations to wilderness emergency care.
• Demonstrate the proper wilderness emergency care patient assessment, including the head-to-toe examination.
• Perform the complete SAMPLE history-taking process for patients in the wilderness setting in conjunction with the physical examination.
• Translate the subjective findings from the history-taking process and the objective findings from the patient assessment into appropriate SOAP notes.
• Explain the essential aspects of each of the commonly encountered wilderness medical and trauma emergencies.
• Explain how to prevent common wilderness emergencies and safety risks.
• List the criteria inherent to the evacuation of a patient from a wilderness environment.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat, package, and evacuate a patient from the remote wilderness environment.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from central nervous system, spinal column, extremity, musculoskeletal, and soft tissue injuries.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from heat, cold, closed blunt force trauma, drowning, envenomation, fracture, laceration, and puncture injuries as well as other, related environmental emergencies.
• Demonstrate how to effectively treat patients suffering from a variety of medical emergencies in the wilderness environment.