Field Emergency Medicine / Practical Considerations in a Field Environment

This two-day course will provide participant's with an intensive review of expedient and proven field treatments. Topics covered will include: bites & stings, preventative immunizations, emerging infections, water purification and treatment of waterborne diseases, heat/cold stress and collapse, diabetic emergencies, key ingredients of a field medicine kit, wound repair & suturing techniques including practical skills lab, treatment of gunshot wounds including use/applications of Quick-Clot® and Heme-Con® and Israeli-type tourniquets and battlefield dressings, and emergency airway maneuvers including intubation and surgical airway access.

Field skills / practical labs will emphasize improvised splinting and stabilization of fractures, wound management including expedient suturing, extrication of the wounded, triage principles and practice, and rapid recognition and immediate interventions of critical life threats.

Date: November 8-9, 2008
Instructor: Dr. Bill Rogers
Cost: $200.00 per day