Jul 14, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog SVC 
    
2025-2026 Catalog SVC

EMS 246 - Wilderness EMT


Credits: 3
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 22
Lab Hours: 22
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: For EMTs who need to acquire wilderness emergency medical skills and knowledge to be certified as Wilderness EMTs. Learn to provide patient care using improvised equipment.

Prerequisite: EMS 242 or EMT-B certification.
Strongly Recommended:
Special Requirements:

Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Prepare a backpack that includes the equipment and supplies needed to manage medical emergencies in the wilderness.
  2. Manage bleeding, wounds, shock, burns, and bone and joint injuries in the wilderness.
  3. Provide care for head, eye, face, dental, chest, abdominal, and spinal injuries in the wilderness.
  4. Provide care for environmental emergencies including heat illnesses, cold-related injuries and illnesses, altitude illnesses, animal and plant injuries, and lightning strikes.
  5. Improvise litters to transport ill and injured patients in the wilderness.
  6. Purify water and manage hygiene problems in the wilderness.
  7. Use plants from the local area to treat injuries and illnesses.
  8. Manage simulated medical emergencies in the wilderness.

Course Contents
  1. Preparing for Wilderness Medical Emergencies.
  2. Soft and Hard Tissue Injury Management.
  3. Spinal Injury Management and Patient Transport Techniques.
  4. Environmental Emergencies.
  5. Wilderness Medical Emergencies.
  6. Water Purification, Wilderness Hygiene and Nutrition.
  7. Herbal First Aid.
  8. Accident and Illness Simulations.


Instructional Units: 3.5