OVERVIEW

Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) Course is organized by Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) and would be held during Oct 06 - 08, 2017 at American Mountaineering Center, Golden, Colorado, United States Of America.

The target audience for this medical event basically for Emergency Medicine. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 20.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Course Objectives :
• To provide a practical foundation in Wilderness Medicine for medical professionals
• To teach patient assessment and treatment guidelines for life support until definitive care or evacuation is available
• To train the provider in methods for managing medical and trauma emergencies and urgencies in the wilderness when evacuation is unavailable or unnecessary

Topics Include :
• Patient assessment
• Wound management
• Trauma
• Water treatment
• Medical problems
• Hyperthermia, hypothermia & frostbite
• Infectious disease
• Medical kits
• Head, Ear, Eye, Nose, Throat, Skin
• Lightning
• Animal & insect Bites
• HAPE/HACE
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Dive Medicine