Course Contents
Module 3
Altitude
- Strategies to minimise the occurrence of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema (HAPE), and High Altitude Cerebral Oedema (HACE)
- Treatment of AMS, HAPE, and HACE: use of drugs, oxygen, Portable Altitude Chamber (PAC), GAMOW bag, and evacuation
- Oxygen Administration
- Frost Nip and Frost Bite
Desert
- Recognition and Management of heat stress, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke
- Prevention strategies to mitigate against heat-related illness
Facing disaster when working or travelling overseas
- Planning and preparation to mitigate against disaster
- Definition of disaster, rapid and slow onset
- Technological disasters (man-made). Displaced populations, industrial and transport, conflict, and famine
- Natural disasters: geophysical (earthquake, tsunami, volcanic, landslides), hydrological (avalanche and floods), meteorological (cyclones and wave surges), biological (disease, epidemics, insect and animal plagues), climatological (extremes of temperature, drought, and wildfires)
- Incident management and rescue co-ordination overseas
Triage
- Triage for Adults and children when help is delayed
- Triage exercise in the immersive classroom
First Aid and medical kits for the remote environment
- Prescription only Medicines (POMs)
- Dental
- Sterile travellers kits
- Wound management: prevention of sepsis
- Prevention of sickness: field hygiene
- Essentials to pack
- Field hygiene: water disinfection, infection
- Mental health first aid toolbox
Bites and Stings
- Insects
- Marine life
- Adapting our behaviour
- Treatment
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