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24-Hour Wilderness Herbal First Aid Certification on-site in Lafayette, CO. The course will be taught by Sam & Suchil Coffman.This is a 24 hour course taught over 3 days (8 hours per day) and includes both a conventional 16-Hour Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Certification through Emergency Care and Safety Institute (ECSI) as well as more than 8 hours of herbal first aid training.
Herbal First Aid information is integrated into the curriculum every day in order to create a holistic model of remote or post-disaster care that emphasizes the essentials of first aid care while also introducing fundamental plant-medicine concepts that apply to austere or post-disaster environments.
The tuition for this course includes:
Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations. 3rd Edition, Jones & Bartlett Press
24-Hour WFA certification subjects include:
Primary and secondary survey
Extrication
Field expedient methods for moving a victim, basic knot/lashing concepts
Diagnosing and treating a wide variety of trauma and life
Threatening situations
Splinting & bandaging plus ankle and knee stabilization for walking
High altitude injuries, heat and cold injuries
Disease and infection
Snake and insect bites & stings
Shock
Head injuries
Water purification & fluid replacement
First Responder planning, building first aid kits and more
Herbal First Aid subjects include:
Fundamental herbal care concepts
The necessary shift in thinking
Wound Care and Infection Management using herbs
Injury, shock, pain and herbs
Respiratory herbal first response
Gastrointestinal herbal first response
Urinary herbal first response
Planning, preparing and administering herbs
Hands-on training and practice is emphasized very strongly throughout this 3-day intensive.
The certification testing for ECSI is both hands-on (done as teams) and a written test.
Wilderness first aid certification is provided by ECSI, which is created, endorsed and underwritten by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) and American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
A national ECSI certification card is issued which is valid for 2 years.
Dates: October 4th – 6th, 2024.
Day 1: 9 AM – 5:30 PM
Day 2: 9 AM – 5:30 PM
Day 3: 9 AM – 3:00 PM
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
424 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, CO, United States, Colorado 80026
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