Wilderness First Aid
Troop 60 leads the council's Wilderness Medical Program. Knowing and understanding the skills and basic knowledge of how to deal with medical emergencies in remote settings enables us to better avoid emergencies and to better deal with these challenges should they occur.
Wilderness First Aid and Remote Medicine Course
All Scouts 14 and older and ALL Adults attending outings are highly encouraged to take our Wilderness First Aid program. Parents and Adults Leaders not attending outings are also invited to Wilderness First Aid training. This give you a better idea of what challenges our crews face in remote settings.
We invite all Adults who have attended this training return as instructors. Working as an instructor allows you to take your skills to the next level which in turn increases the level of safety on all Troop 60 outings.
If you would like to review our current course materials, please come talk to our Medical Director.
Wilderness Survival
At some point, we may have to deal with "The Unexpected Night Out" due to an unforeseen medical emergency. All adults who attend outings with us are highly encouraged to attend our Wilderness Survival Sessions. This training will enable you to better plan for and better deal with wilderness emergencies should they occur.
Understanding the basics of Wilderness Survival enables you to turn a potential true survival situation into a minor inconvenience.
Supplemental Wilderness Medicine Course Material
Practices guidelines are constantly updated. If you want to deliver the best care, you’ll need to review material as the art of medicine evolves.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Guidelines
This is considered the gold standard of casualty care while under fire or while in remote areas. This is our go to source material for dealing with trauma.
15 December 2021 Guidelines: learning-media.allogy.com/api/v1/pdf/1045f287-baa4-4990-8951-de517a262ee2/contents
This is the medical professional version of the Guidelines – we teach just the WRFA level of care, but it is good to know and understand what the next level is
More at: www.deployedmedicine.com
Non-medical personnel material: www.deployedmedicine.com/market/171
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines
These are considered the standard of treatment for what we might encounter in the Wilderness. They are updated frequently so make sure you are review the most recent version of the guidelines.
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines & Summaries
2024
2023
2022
2021
LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Suggested Addition to Wilderness Medical Society Snow Burial Guidelines
2019 Updates
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Spinal Cord Protection
Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes Management
2017
2015