What is Wilderness First Aid?
If you find yourself providing patient care one hour or greater from definitive medical care, you are in the realm of Wilderness First Aid. Wilderness First Aid (also known as Wilderness Medicine) is characterized by extended patient care time, extremes of environment and the need to improvise resources to be able to manage and treat your patient well.
Related Questions
- Is it fair to say that, as a human, you enjoy the chaos and beauty of wilderness and nature, but not enough to prefer it over right angles, sterilized order, pathological security and rigorous predictability?
- How is wilderness different from other federal public lands?
- How does wilderness designation in a park affect people?
