The Advanced WFA course incorporates and surpasses the standard WFA course:

• Double the duration (32 instead of 16 hours) gives much more time for:

  • more hands-on practice via mock injury / mock illness scenarios

  • more time for questions and greater depth into the standard WFA course topics

  • additional course topics and skills sessions, including:

    • top 20 expedition problems & solutions

    • dislocations

    • traction splints

    • pneumo- / hemothorax

    • flail chest

    • seizure

    • stroke

    • diabetes

    • hyperventilation

    • pneumonia

    • drowning

Who:  Open to the general public.  Instructor:  Matt Rosefsky, Wilderness EMT

(NREMT-B)

When & Where:  (all courses run 8:30am - 5:30pm each course day)

          ·April 2-5, 2010:  Advanced WFA (flyer) at Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA

Cost:  standard WFA course fee plus $130 general public / $120 OASC Members
(double the course time but less than double the fee)

Signup:    Spaces are limited and courses sometimes fill up a month in advance.  Please call 1-434-760-HIKE (4453) for registration information.

This page was last updated on January 25, 2010.