Course Detail
Units:
2.0
Course Components:
Seminar
Description
This course will be a 2-week elective in which you can earn the Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) certificate offered by the University of Utah School of Medicine. Session topics include wilderness patient assessment, hypothermia and hyperthermia, wilderness wound management, water treatment, HAPE, AMS, HACE, and other injuries and illnesses unique to the back country.