WEMS Practitioner Course Syllabus
for licensed Physicians, Physician Associates, & Nurse Practitioners
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Lab Descriptions
- Basic Life Support Lab: Addresses all elements of the Scene and Primary Surveys.
- Wound Cleaning Lab: Pig’s feet are used for training realistic wound cleaning and removal of impaled objects. Discussion on primary vs. delayed primary vs. secondary closure. Dressing & bandaging options.
- Basic Extremity Splinting Lab: Padded aluminum splints are used to improvise effective extremity splints using the buddy & cast splinting concepts. Requires a cut T-shirt roll and a pair of heavy hiking socks; the socks will not be cut.
- Advanced Extremity Splinting Lab: Common expedition equipment is used to improvise effective lower extremity splints using the buddy, jelly roll, and sandwich splinting concepts.
- Focused Spine Assessment Lab: How to assess and rule out possible spine injuries in a wilderness context.
- Spine Management Lab: Lifting, moving, and packaging potentially spine-injured patients in one or more commercial litters. Includes pressure infusion bag for rapid infusion of IV fluids for dehydration or diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)
- Improvised Carries Lab: Quick and practical methods for carrying out an injured patient.
- Improvised Litter Lab: A daisy chain rope litter and stretcher are shown and practiced.
- Dislocations Lab: Relocation techniques for indirect anterior shoulder, lateral patella, and digits are demonstrated and practiced. Jaw reduction and passive anterior shoulder reduction techniques are demonstrated.
- Improvised Hypothermia Packaging Lab: Sleeping bags, pads, tarps or plastic sheeting, and water bags/bottles are used to improvise a hypothermia package.
- Simulations: Role plays incorporating patient assessment & documentation. Makeup is used to increase the reality of traumatic simulations and cutable simulation clothing is required.