Emergency medical care for the outdoors

When planning a outdoor adventure, no one wants to talk or think about the chances of being injured in the wilderness or what to do when it happens but if your like me, you want to be prepared for anything. With that being said, let's talk about how to gain some skills to be better prepared encase of  the unfortunate medical disaster.

Take and EMT-B course
One of the best decisions I ever made was to follow the advice of some of my friend from church who encouraged me to take a 3 month Emergency medical Technician class at my local college. I learned all of the emergency, life saving skills of that we necessary for working on a ambulance as an EMT at my local fire department (another story for a later time). My EMT-B skills came in handy for for all of my adventures and opened up a lot of opportunities in both my career as well as my recreational life. There have been many that I have requested to join a trip, solely because of my usefulness as a "medical person". 

many colleges and local fire departments offer EMT-B course for  reasonable prices .Yes, there is a financial investment but the skills you will learn will be with you for life!
If you are willing to volunteer at your fire department, most chiefs will actually pay for your class.

Buy the text book
sadly enough, just like college you are going to need to buy a text book, and not all emt text book are the same. I'll link my favorite text book down below

Prehospital Emergency care

Ride along or volunteer as with EMS agencies.

One thing medical professionals love is, teaching others the things they have learned in the field. most fire departments, private ambulances, and ER's will let you ride along and learn stuff. You could volunteer at a fire department and learn some stuff that you will find useful on your adventures. 

Get a Wildness specialty added to your certification 

Wilderness medical associates international teaches a 5 day Wilderness EMT upgrade course.