Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care in Remote Locations

Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care in Remote Locations is ECSI's manual for first aid far from immediate professional help, developed with AAOS (the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons). SkillsTrain is the authorised distributor importing and supplying it into Africa. ECSI, the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, is the Jones and Bartlett family's training brand for first aid and safety courses.

Unlike standard first aid, which assumes an ambulance is minutes away, this manual covers the decision making and ongoing care needed when evacuation may take hours, a materially different problem since a responder has to manage a patient's condition over an extended period rather than stabilise and hand over quickly. That makes the content relevant to guides, rangers, remote site workers and outdoor programme staff who may be the only trained person present for an extended stretch, rather than only urban first aiders working close to formal emergency services.

Because the decision to evacuate, and how, is often as important as the first aid itself in a remote setting, the course spends real time on judgement, weighing the risk of moving a patient against the risk of waiting, which is less of a concern in standard first aid training closer to help.

Who it is for: guides, rangers, remote work site safety teams and outdoor education or expedition staff. SkillsTrain supplies this as ECSI and AAOS's published work; we do not write or accredit it.