Med kit

[Ferrulewax]

Besides first aid kits, and a basic first aid training done by the red cross. Is there a better resource for training for the back country for a emergency?

I think a wilderness first aid course is a good start (although it tends to focus a little more on rendering first aid as a group and how to delegate responsibility, at least in the course I did). A stop the bleed course would also be a good option.

 

[ashtont]

Besides first aid kits, and a basic first aid training done by the red cross. Is there a better resource for training for the back country for a emergency?

My work provides the red cross training for us so that kinda what got my mind rolling on what some people run for backcountry stuff.


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[IDVortex]

I think a wilderness first aid course is a good start (although it tends to focus a little more on rendering first aid as a group and how to delegate responsibility, at least in the course I did). A stop the bleed course would also be a good option.

I've done some light looking into courses, but most I find is for a group setting. Not for a single person alone in the middle of the Frank Church wilderness

 

[Ferrulewax]

I've done some light looking into courses, but most I find is for a group setting. Not for a single person alone in the middle of the Frank Church wilderness

I wonder if a more "tactical" based course would be better? It would probably still lend itself more to group aid.

 

[ashtont]

I wonder if a more "tactical" based course would be better? It would probably still lend itself more to group aid.

that’s what it felt like when i did it, partners and calling people for help, I’d rather learn more or less to do stuff solo or me and a buddy. I’m not a huge group hunter.


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[Fatcamp]

My first aid kit has grown considerably over the last few years. I've had some very close calls with potentially significant injuries in the deep backcountry. I also do a lot of backcountry skiing which carries a significant risk for injury and I am familiar with some fatalities in the same areas that I have skied where key items such as Nasopharygeal Airway, tourniquets, chest seals etc would have potentially changed the outcome. Lot of different schools of thought, but I am increasingly less impressed with cavalier attitudes.

When I hunt in remote areas I carry the small kit outlined above but when we shoot, boat or travel I always have a full blowout kit.

I find that interesting and thought provoking.

 

[Marbles]

Besides first aid kits, and a basic first aid training done by the red cross. Is there a better resource for training for the back country for a emergency?

Wilderness first aid, or better wilderness first responder. NOLS courses.

To address other points.

These courses are a foundation, you have to take what they teach you, try to understand it, then adapt it to your needs.

I was once told there is a difference between education and training. The semantics of this was that training gives you an algorithm to follow and focuses on if this, then that. Education teaches you to understand the underlying issues so you can create solutions.

The algorithms work, and well educated people use them as it speeds things up, but the education lets you figure out what to do when the algorithm fails.

EMT and paramedic are still predominantly at the training level. RN gets some deeper education, but still is limited in that regard. PA, APRN, DO, MD get (or should get) taught to think through the problem, but there is a large foundation needed and constant maintenance.

That is a long winded way of saying, don't reject a level of training just because it doesn't fit everything perfectly.