NWSI 2024 Beyond Band-Aids: Unveiling Your Ultimate Wilderness Medical Arsenal

Description:
Essential Med Kit Items, Top 3 Must-Haves, Head-to-Toe Safety, Wildlife Wisdom, and Multi-Purpose Marvels for Trauma and Emergency Mastery
Presenter:
Connie Jacobs, Colorado Conservation Lands Program Lead, Bureau of Land Management
References:
First Aid Kits - • INTRO TO FIRST AID for...
Backpacking First Aid Kit - • How to Create a BACKPA...
Doctors Explains First Aid Kits for Camping, Travel, & Hiking - • Doctors Explains First...
Blister Care: Doctor Reveals Surprising Blister Prevention Techniques - • Doctor Reveals Surpris...
Common wilderness Injuries and prevention tips:
www.elevatedtr...
Improvising supplies for emergencies (lots of ads to skip, material is good):
- Improvising First Aid: Addressing Wounds When Kits Aren't Enough | - Unified Survival - unifiedsurviva...
- Useful First Aid Kit Tips & Hacks | First Aid Blog | Medical Gear Outfitters - medicalgearout...
Safety Tips While traveling and in the back country:
• OUTDOOR SAFETY TIPS fo...
Backpacking gear for beginners (budget items will get you by):
• Budget Backpacking Gea...
Snakes:
- How to deal with snakes on the trail (general, good info)
• HOW TO Handle SNAKES o...
- Discussion with an ER doc who specializes in snake bites:
• Wilderness Medicine: S...
- Video above goes/pairs with video below.
• Wilderness Medicine: S...
Disclaimer: Please note: at 2:15 Dr. Erickson misspoke and generally recommends placing the arm at the level of the heart (to manage local swelling but not encourage systemic absorption). That said, in settings where neurotoxicity from envenomation is likely (and local tissue swelling is of secondary concern), keeping the bite below the level of the heart may slow lymphatic venom absorption. See Dr. Erickson speak at the upcoming National CME Conference on Wilderness Medicine: wilderness-med...
Consider putting your 1st Aid kit (and meals!) together with latex allergies in mind!
- 8-17% of health care workers and Less than 1% of the general population in the U.S. (about 3 million people)
- Statistics | American Latex Allergy Association - latexallergyre...
- www.aaaai.org/...
Head to Toe Assessment Demo: NOLS Head to Toe Assessment - • Wilderness Medicine | ...