Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) Course (Tusayan)

Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) Course is organized by Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) and would be held during Sep 22 - 24, 2017 at Best Western Premier Grand Canyon Squire Inn, Tusayan, Arizona, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved with a maximum of 20.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits..

Course Description :
• Earn your Advanced Wilderness Life Support certification
• Learn the latest practical hands-on wilderness medicine skills for patient assessment, treatment and evacuation protocols.
• Practice your skills in live scenarios with our expert instructors
• Obtain up to 20.5 hours of category 1 CME
• Receive Wilderness Medical Society Fellowship credits

Conference Objectives are :
• 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
• Trauma
• Medical problems
• Infectious disease
• Head, Ear, Eye, Nose, Throat, Skin
• Animal & insect Bites
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Wound management
• Water treatment
• Hyperthermia, hypothermia & frostbite
• Medical kits
• Lightning
• HAPE/HACE
• Dive Medicine
Additional Details will be posted as soon as they are available.