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
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...
Meeting the New Wilderness Medical Course Guidance: courses with Remote Area Risk International.
The updated guidance on Medical Provision for Wilderness Medicine only serve to emphasise the relevance of our carefully selected and...