MEDIC SOLO Disaster + Wilderness Medical School

The way in which YOU handle the first 5 mins of an emergency can make the difference between life & death.

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Photos of students learning how to give first aid to victims of crashes, terrorist or natural disasters, and outdoor adventure mis-haps

Since your web browser does not support JavaScript, you can scroll down to see the pictures in the JavaScript slideshow. Learn how to help at a car crash scene, rather than wanting to help but not knowing what to do

Learn how to help at a car crash scene, rather than wanting to help but not knowing what to do

Learn how to help victims of terrorist or natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods

American Heart Association CPR & AED (adult, child and infant) certification course

Helping numerous people inside a building

Learning how to move patients with suspected spinal injuries

Caring for amputations

Carrying a patient with a broken, splinted leg

Putting direct pressure to stop bleeding from the neck

Using canoe or kayak paddles to improvise a leg splint

A teenager stopping a leg from bleeding by putting direct pressure on the wound

Using pressure irrigation from a syringe to clean a leg wound, preventing infection

Treating someone with an impaled object in their eye

A creative way to stabilize a head and neck on someone with a possible spinal injury

Using a quickly-improvised litter made of sticks and a tarp to carry out a broken leg patient

In-class splint-making skill session

Night-time treatment of a patient with an open pneumothorax ('sucking chest wound')

Improvised shelter-building skill session, in this case using a tarp and whatever else one can find

Night-time transfer of a patient to the EMTs of an ambulance crew, at a trail head parking area

Taking action to stabilize the patient's head, neck and spine to minimize risk of spinal cord damage

Improvising a pressure dressing to stop the bleeding from a sliced arm

Caring for someone in snowy, foggy mountain-top conditions

Treating a bicycle crash victim

Giving immediate care to someone who got hurt in a shopping mall

$Using a SAM splint and other materials to improvise a splint for a fractured arm$
Taking a pulse (heart rate) and other vital signs including breathing (respiratory) rate, level of consciousness, and skin color temperature moisture

Taking a pulse (heart rate) and other vital signs including breathing (respiratory) rate, level of consciousness, and skin color temperature moisture

Caring for a victim of a tree which fell and broke his leg, and is trapping him

Using a CPR mask-to-mouth barrier on a patient having breathing difficulty

Using a water bladder to cool down some hands with first, second and third degree burns from a stove explosion

Performing a physical exam on a patient whose leg has been crushed beneath a fallen tree

Assisting a patient struck by a collpased rock wall at a construction site

Splinting Two Broken Legs

Calendar

June 1 - 2:

Madison, NJ

(near New York City)

June 8 - 9:

Virginia Beach, VA

(Hampton Roads /

Tidewater areas)

July 20-21:

Washington, D.C.

August 14-21 (8 days):

WFResponder near

Spruce Knob, WV

Sept. 21-22:

Virginia Beach, VA

(Hampton Roads /

Tidewater areas)

Oct. 12-13:

Richmond, VA

Oct. 19-20:

Charlottesville, VA

Nov. 9 - 10:

Blacksburg, VA

Nov. 16-17:

Washington, D.C.

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Learn how to save life & limb when / where pro help is not immediately available.

"Wilderness" = Time of injury/illness to hospital arrival > 1 hour.

= Natural areas, rural living, and natural or terrorist disaster zones

when & where EMS is overwhelmed, and cellphone towers are jammed.

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