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RPK 160: Wilderness First Aid

2 credit

Lecture 2 hours. Laboratory 2 hours.

Examines the role of outdoor professionals in wilderness medicine and the response, care and rescue of outdoor participants in non-urban environments. Provides intensive, in-depth training in the areas of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, patient assessment system, body systems, environmental injuries/conditions, anaphylaxis, lifting/moving/extrication, patient carries, and backcountry medicine.
Total 4 hours per week.

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