8 Am - Noon

Firehouse #1 - State Hwy EE, Sedgewickville MO 

Hunters are accidentally shot while they were out hunting. The US Fish and Wildlife Service reports that hunters spend over 5 million cumulative hunting days in the field each year. While these emergencies are ‘low frequency’, they can be extremely complex and ‘high risk’ in nature. Are you trained and ready to respond to complex outdoor emergencies? Does your fire department train for rescue operations in the most remote areas of your district? This course will better prepare Firefighters to assess, rescue, and treat injured hunters and patients in the remote outdoors. During this class, we will review rapid trauma assessment and treatment for a myriad of GSW’s, puncture and penetrating wounds, arrow and broadhead injuries, cold water emergencies and hypothermia, and multisystem trauma injuries related to hunting and outdoor emergencies. Hands-On training scenarios will include use of common and specialized rescue equipment, and several different techniques to rescue hunters from a variety of tree stands, tree climbing rigs, elevated and ground blinds, falls – including hunting harnesses and suspension injuries, archery and arrow injuries, and a wide variety of traumatic injuries commonly associated with hunting, trapping, and outdoors sporting events.

(EMS CEUS: EMT/Paramedic/Registered Nurse - Trauma 4 hours)