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Risk Management & First Aid

The Risk Management and First Aid Group focuses on managing safety in outdoor programming.
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  • Blog Post: Wilderness Medical Society Meeting WFA Discussion

    On Sunday evening July 25 th Tony Islas MD, president of the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) hosted a meeting of wilderness medicine providers at the summer meeting of the WMS. All of the major providers were represented, including the Red Cross and members of ski patrol, representatives from AORE and...
  • Blog Post: WFR Scope of Practice Draft

    The group of wilderness medicine providers working on scope of practice documents have completed a draft of a Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Scope of Practice (SOP) Guideline to accompany the Wilderness First Aid (WFA) SOP published last fall. We’re circulating the WFR SOP draft to provide an...
  • Blog Post: Wilderness First Aid Scope of Practice Update

    Folks This is an update on the wilderness first aid scope of practice process and documents. Our group of colleagues have been working steadily on these documents.We have circulated several drafts of the Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Scope of Practice document, considered the feedback we have received and...
  • Blog Post: Wilderness First Aid Scope of Practice

    The concept of consistency in the content of Wilderness First Aid (WFA) and Wilderness First Responder (WFR) programs is receiving much attention. Some folks seem to think there is chaos among the various providers with people teaching widely varying practices. I’m not so sure this is the case...
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