Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) Course - Kings Beach, California

Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) Course - Kings Beach is organized by Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) and will be held during Apr 27 - 29, 2018 at North Tahoe Event Center, Kings Beach, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 20.50 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

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
• 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
• LightningHAPE/HACE
• Dive Medicine

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.