The Red Cross usually teaches this as a 16-hour classroom lecture course. Our Council volunteers (EMTs, Nurses, Trainers, the occasional MD or Paramedic) teach it as an indoor-outdoor course of lectures and live-action scenarios. When the course syllabus was last updated a couple of years ago, the national Red Cross leadership sent a team to our course at Maumee to take pictures and observe how we do it, and several of our volunteers are pictured in the official handbook for the course. Howzat?
I am very proud of T.J. and Dakota. They did very well. Their expertise will add another layer of awesome to our Philmont trek next summer.
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They feed us well Dakota making sure that the cake batter gets cleaned off the spatula |
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WFA is an outdoor course Erin and Judy lecturing |
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Immobilizing the head live-action training scenario |
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Practicing the burrito wrap Keeping the victim (T.J.) warm |
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A victim's eyeview of the scenario Not much else to see when you're lying in a ravine with a busted leg and arm |
