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Somebody should’ve grabbed Lecointe by the neck and thrown him overboard

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Today's Seal Is: Barrowed Outside Of The Premises

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anonymously message me (3) things you want to know about me.

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You are correct to assume I’m in the US (northern Rocky Mountain region if that helps). Yes, it is something you can just take. Some places you could even take it for college credit haha.

You are also correct that once you take the course and get the certificate, you’re operating individually. A lot of jobs in the outdoor recreation/natural resources field here require some kind of first aid training so it’s easy to find.

WFR courses go in to a lot more detail and cover things like sutures, relocating joints, lifts/drags/carries, long term patient care, and patient evacuation. Wilderness EMT courses are, to my understanding, standard EMT stuff with the addition of wilderness medicine and search and rescue training.

Below the cut are two different organization’s recommended group first aid kits. It’s considered good practice that every person also has their own small kits, usually containing personal medications and things that run out fast like blister care supplies.

Here’s a fun map showing how inaccessible some places are (x). Not all of this is federally designated Wilderness-a lot is Bureau of Land Management-but all is roadless.

It’s also incredibly important to remember that the concept of Wilderness is flawed. All of Turtle Island is stolen land and many federally designated Wilderness Areas were forcibly taken from Indigenous peoples and later, from other marginalized groups. It is imperative to recognize that what we see today is the culmination of thousands of years of intentional land stewardship by the many people connected to these places.

Hi 👋 I saw your tags on the first aid poll post and they piqued my interest. Do you want to talk about wilderness first aid?

I'd love to! I obtained my Wilderness First Aid certification over the summer, and I previously held a Wilderness First Responder cert. I am a proponent of everybody having some basic medical training, and because of the activities I do I wanted something substantial. I routinely work and recreate out of trailheads that take 2+ hours driving a primitive road to get to, and from there walk multiple days into the backcountry. In situations where an evacuation is necessary, it can take hours or days.

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Wilderness first aid (WFA) is the specific discipline of first aid which relates to care in remote areas, where emergency medical services will be difficult to obtain or will take a long time to arrive.

My course instructors defined "a long time" as an hour or more. There are a LOT of places where this is the case.

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A WFA certification can be obtained in a 16 hour course, and covers scene/patient assessment and common illnesses/injuries. In addition to a WFA cert, you get a CPR/AED and EpiPen cert.

A WIlderness First Responder (WFR) certification can be obtained in an 80 hour course and goes into much more detail, and covers long term patient care & evacuation techniques.

WIlderness EMT courses go above and beyond, and include search-and-rescue training, practice in a clinical environment, vehicle extraction, and more. Can be obtained in ~200 hours.

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These basic principles should guide wilderness medicine practitioners:

1. Do no harm.

Practitioners can hurt people while caring for them, by not caring for them, or by providing inappropriate care. What this means for the practitioner is that they should perform to the best of their ability within the scope of their training, and to document everything accurately. WFAs operate under Good Samaritan Laws (they vary by state), which grants immunity to those who volunteer to help the injured person. They typically do not provide immunity to negligence. There are standards of care that are covered in detail in an official training course.

2. Nobody dies a preventable death.

In a wilderness setting, this primarily refers to rescuer deaths. Providers should not put themselves at risk as two patients are more difficult to manage than one. This also means controlling the scene before managing patients and addressing major threats first.

3. Keep simple things simple.

WFAs have a unique opportunity to perform preventative care as usually, the injured person is someone in our group. Are we being risk aware? Attentive to everyone's health and well-being? Are we taking care of our feet? Treating our water appropriately? Did everyone pack appropriately for the terrain and weather?

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Take a look at this years' poster presentations!

We’re delighted to announce that this year’s POSTER PRESENTATIONS are live!

From the allure of cannibalism to a Terror-themed cocktail menu, and even a Shackleton-inspired puppet show, check out our contributors' brilliant work (with more to come soon!)

Make sure you click through to view these posters in the original quality.

❄️ See this year’s posters!

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Antarctica Abandoned Stations

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Terror Artists please if you are selling physical art (stickers, charms, prints etc) this is your time to shamefully advertise yourself!

My bf just told me to choose anything Terror related that my heart desires for my name day and he will order it and I want fanworks 🙌

We can turn this into a main reference post for others too who are looking for gifts for the holidays! I'd update this post with links for accounts and shops.

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can't stop thinkin abt strong as fuck ice mummy

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*standing on beechey island next to an open grave* no babe I'm not trying to turn you into an ice mummy. Come closer

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you probably thought today was a normal Monday. nooooope. strong as fuck ice mummy again, sorry.

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i do this to the tuunbaq

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Today's Seal Is: Uncontained Joy

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Joanne Mannilaq

Inuit Mother Walrus Packing Doll, 1990

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This walrus is wearing an amauti, an Inuit garment meant both for keeping warm and carrying your baby around.

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Perks of being a momma seal is you have a super soft pillow that follows you everywhere

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Hi 👋 I saw your tags on the first aid poll post and they piqued my interest. Do you want to talk about wilderness first aid?

I'd love to! I obtained my Wilderness First Aid certification over the summer, and I previously held a Wilderness First Responder cert. I am a proponent of everybody having some basic medical training, and because of the activities I do I wanted something substantial. I routinely work and recreate out of trailheads that take 2+ hours driving a primitive road to get to, and from there walk multiple days into the backcountry. In situations where an evacuation is necessary, it can take hours or days.

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Wilderness first aid (WFA) is the specific discipline of first aid which relates to care in remote areas, where emergency medical services will be difficult to obtain or will take a long time to arrive.

My course instructors defined "a long time" as an hour or more. There are a LOT of places where this is the case.

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A WFA certification can be obtained in a 16 hour course, and covers scene/patient assessment and common illnesses/injuries. In addition to a WFA cert, you get a CPR/AED and EpiPen cert.

A WIlderness First Responder (WFR) certification can be obtained in an 80 hour course and goes into much more detail, and covers long term patient care & evacuation techniques.

WIlderness EMT courses go above and beyond, and include search-and-rescue training, practice in a clinical environment, vehicle extraction, and more. Can be obtained in ~200 hours.

___

These basic principles should guide wilderness medicine practitioners:

1. Do no harm.

Practitioners can hurt people while caring for them, by not caring for them, or by providing inappropriate care. What this means for the practitioner is that they should perform to the best of their ability within the scope of their training, and to document everything accurately. WFAs operate under Good Samaritan Laws (they vary by state), which grants immunity to those who volunteer to help the injured person. They typically do not provide immunity to negligence. There are standards of care that are covered in detail in an official training course.

2. Nobody dies a preventable death.

In a wilderness setting, this primarily refers to rescuer deaths. Providers should not put themselves at risk as two patients are more difficult to manage than one. This also means controlling the scene before managing patients and addressing major threats first.

3. Keep simple things simple.

WFAs have a unique opportunity to perform preventative care as usually, the injured person is someone in our group. Are we being risk aware? Attentive to everyone's health and well-being? Are we taking care of our feet? Treating our water appropriately? Did everyone pack appropriately for the terrain and weather?

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*FORMAL training/certification, whatever that may look like for you

**includes pre-med

reblog for reach/bigger sample size!!

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements