Standards, competence, top cover, tourniquet conversion & the importance of context.
Feb 22. 2025. This article is from a civilian remote medic/fieldwork/expedition/nuanced perspective but may have wider application. We’re putting it up now for currency and value of message speed. Might get refined over the next week or so for posterity/ added links etc. A multiplicity of tourniquet types and styles. These and more are taught on our courses. Importantly, familiarise yourself with kit (and check the suitability of it) before departure. Beware of fakes and buy
Court Judgement. Australian criminal prosecution. Death on expedition. Diabetes management. Pre screening. Pre training. Monitoring. Ops room communications. Telemed.Risk Assessment. Risk mitigation.
A tragic case. If you are involved in expeditions, fieldwork or remote medical cover, you need to read it. It’s an Australian case...
Risk Management : Our Prolonged Field Care courses feature in outdoor/expedition industry publications.
Whilst already well known in Search and Rescue, disaster response, NGO, outdoor and expedition circles, it’s always great to see our civilian expedition/fieldwork specific Prolonged Field Care training feature in the press. Previously, our specialist PFC courses have appeared in Search and Rescue publications, highlighting the importance of PFC (mirroring the experience of some of our delegates from Mountain Rescue who have had to care for casualties for very extended period
Reflections on 2024 in pictures and thoughts …plus some 2025 spoilers …
A look back at 2024 in words and pictures.. abd and a look ahead…
Casualty Care in the cold. Casualty management priorities, Formula 1 pit stop team approach; Hypothermia wraps/protection & heat loss prevention in the field:
Formula 1 pit stop hypothermia approach . Heat loss / Cold needs to be managed from the outset. It’s something most of us in the outdoor/expedition medical world have been doing for decades. It’s nothing new. We do this by using group shelters / bothy bags and also other interventions. Good skills to have the wider team trained to do this in parallel at the very start of the very longstanding CABCDE approach. It’s exactly why our ‘Check cards’ have been headed by a ‘Cold Card
2021: End Of Year Round - Up
Mountain Leader/Exped Leader: “More useful than all the other medical courses I have done, combined !” As the UK’s Centre of Excellence...
2020...a quick overview...
With 2021 course dates being published next week (as you’d expect, we have been reviewing operations and risk assessments in light of the...
Wilderness First Responder
A few photos from our recent Wilderness First Responder (and refresher for those who have already done WFR) course run at Plas y Brenin....
Webinar Academy ! Courses, interest events, masterclasses and more.
Online Webinars, courses, interest pieces and masterclasses for those wanting to escape lockdown (virtually) for an hour or two.
Advanced Wilderness Life Support and Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine - with R2Ri.
AWLS, PHTLS, Risk Management and expedition planning courses suitable for Wilderness Medics. So, a year ago, we had just finished the...