Our comprehensive 80 acre rural training centre encompasses a wide range of adaptable scenario settings, allowing a fully immersive experience to give you the best possible hands on experience.
Overview
The Wilderness 16hrs Outdoor first aid course doesn’t just cover first aid, it includes a wide range of techniques designed to help you deal with emergency situations, in remote locations, which may require prolonged field care while waiting for help to arrive.
This is a practical hands on course developed over the last 20 years that we have been delivering it, in conjunction with Wilderness First Aid, it includes aspects of survival, rescue and prolonged field care, all over and above advanced first aid training.
Course content
- Extreme cold
- Extreme heat
- Treatment of Adder snake bites
- Catastrophic bleeding, including:
- Direct pressure
- Tourniquets
- Haemostatic agents
- Crush injuries
- Lyme disease
- Medical Emergencies
- Fractures
- Basic life support
Course Trainer
Paramedic lead training for the highest level of skill and real life experience, in a relaxed engaging manner.
Intended Audience
Designed for those who travel, work or play in remote areas, far from help, this course for fills the criteria for First Aid training for all Outdoor NGB qualifications including British Cycling, ML, SPA, RYA, BCU, ASSI, BO, DofE, BASI, Forest School, MLT, Br, Canoe Wales, NCLA, and RYA.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
The training venue should be quiet and undisturbed. Staff should not be expected to be on duty. Staff attending should remain for the entire length of the session.
