Advanced WFA Part II (bridge)
Why is this course unique?
Advanced WFA courses are super hard to find. Our version is even rarer: a 2-day bridge, instead of the usual 4-day full course.
MEDIC SOLO's version includes challenging, exciting team rescues of people trapped in an actual upside-down vehicle, and a mission to search for and rescue people trapped in an actual crashed airplane.
Overview
Building on the skills learned in Wilderness First Aid, and following the same MEDIC-style course format of ~50 / 50: lecture+Q&A / hands-on, this course is a 2-day "bridge" to the Advanced Wilderness First Aid certification.
Course Topics and Location Information
Plenty of hands-on practice is blended in with the following topics not covered in WFA:
- Cardiothoracic Trauma: fractured ribs, flail chest, pneumothorax -- closed, tension, spontaneous, and open ("sucking chest wound")
- Gunshot wounds
- Heart: angina pectoris vs. myocardial infarction
- Abdominal trauma: blunt force, penetrating
- Abdominal pain
- Genital trauma
- Rising Intracranial Pressure
- Stroke
- Seizures
- Facial injuries: Eyes, Ears, Nose, Teeth
- Fractures of upper arm, finger, and more.
- Dislocations
- Reynaud's syndrome
- Trenchfoot
- Altitude Illnesses
- Lightning: preventing getting struck
- Bivouac: principles of building an impromptu shelter
- Litter Basket use in class: how to package and secure a patient, and carrying technique and practice
- Improvised Litter: ditto the above
- Rescue Team Organization for Multiple Caregivers
- Additional vital signs and history
- Long term care and monitoring of a patient
- First aid kit
When we offer this course at Twin Mountain Off Road Adventure, Williamsport,, WV, students also will:
- Work on / extract patients from an actual upside-down vehicle
- Work on / extract patients from an actual crashed small airplane
- Nighttime team rescue scenario
- Enjoy free camping, and have the option to extend stay to enjoy Twin Mountain Off Road Adventure's on-site offerings, such as:
- Trail system for you to enjoy driving off road
- Course: Introduction to Off Road Vehicles and Driving
- Course: Basic Recovery
- Course: Advanced Trail Skills
A few anonymous feedback survey quotes about the facilities:
Camp facilities: excellent; showers & bathrooms outstanding. Huge bonus on wrecked aircraft.
Fantastic location. Very comfortable. Clean. I loved the restroom facilities.
Prerequisite
Current certification in any one of the following: MEDIC SOLO WFA, SOLO AWFA, or SOLO WFR or SOLO WEMT
Certification & Recertification
Certification: Advanced Wilderness First Aid, 2 years, from internationally-renowned SOLO -- the oldest continuously-operating school of wilderness medicine in the world. To recertify, you can take this course again, or the Wilderness First Aid course.
Higher-cert Recertification: this class counts as recertification for current SOLO AWFA, SOLO WFR, and W part of SOLO WEMT.
Course Fee, Dates and Registration
$365 - $395; includes an exciting night-time team rescue (not usually a part of an AWFA part II course; the night in between the two course days), free camping, nice bathrooms and showers.
Registration is here (look for "Advanced WFA Part II" specifics when you get to the payment section), spaces are limited, and payment is what secures a spot.