Wilderness EMS Skills Study Guide: Environmental Emergencies, Improvised Care, and Evacuation Planning

Wilderness EMS practice requires consistent approaches to environmental emergencies, improvised care, and evacuation planning. This hands-on study course walks through those approaches with case-based modules. By the end of this course you will be able to apply structured frameworks to common environmental emergencies, design improvised care approaches for resource-limited situations, plan evacuations with structured decision-making, and document wilderness cases effectively. What you will learn: - Recognition and management frameworks for heat illness, hypothermia, frostbite, and altitude illness - Approaches to lightning, drowning, and animal-related injuries - Improvised splinting, packaging, and patient movement techniques - Wound and injury management with limited resources - Evacuation planning frameworks including litter carry, technical evacuation, and helicopter operations - Communications planning in remote environments including radio, satellite, and PLB use - Documentation frameworks for prolonged wilderness cases The course is structured as a study guide. Each module covers one area, provides checklists, presents case examples, and asks you to reason through wilderness scenarios. This course is a study guide for EMS providers and search and rescue members studying wilderness EMS concepts. It does not replace state-approved EMS certification, recognized wilderness medicine training, or supervised practical training. By the end you will have structured frameworks for studying wilderness EMS skills and reasoning through cases set in remote environments.