Adventure RX Series (All 4 Sessions)

$800.00

Adventure Rx is a quarterly, hands-on CME event series presented by Whatcom County EMS and Backcountry Medical Guides. Designed for healthcare professionals, first responders, and wilderness-savvy community members, each session delivers dynamic, scenario-based field training in real outdoor environments.

Every course is approved for up to 8 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 CME and Washington State EMS continuing education credit. Sessions can be taken individually—no prerequisites—or as a complete seasonal series.

Seasonal Focus:

  • Fall – Wilderness Medicine Essentials Part 1- Rescue operations & prolonged field care

  • Winter – Mountain Medicine: Avalanche, snow immersion, cold injuries, altitude

  • Spring – Wilderness Medicine Essentials, Part 2: Spring sports, remote orthopedic care, infectious disease, travel medicine

  • Summer – Maritime Medical: Medicine-at-sea & marine rescue scenarios

Adventure Rx blends seasonal skills, real-world patient care challenges, and immersive team-based problem-solving—so you leave prepared to handle the unexpected, wherever it happens.

Adventure Rx is a quarterly, hands-on CME event series presented by Whatcom County EMS and Backcountry Medical Guides. Designed for healthcare professionals, first responders, and wilderness-savvy community members, each session delivers dynamic, scenario-based field training in real outdoor environments.

Every course is approved for up to 8 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 CME and Washington State EMS continuing education credit. Sessions can be taken individually—no prerequisites—or as a complete seasonal series.

Seasonal Focus:

  • Fall – Wilderness Medicine Essentials Part 1- Rescue operations & prolonged field care

  • Winter – Mountain Medicine: Avalanche, snow immersion, cold injuries, altitude

  • Spring – Wilderness Medicine Essentials, Part 2: Spring sports, remote orthopedic care, infectious disease, travel medicine

  • Summer – Maritime Medical: Medicine-at-sea & marine rescue scenarios

Adventure Rx blends seasonal skills, real-world patient care challenges, and immersive team-based problem-solving—so you leave prepared to handle the unexpected, wherever it happens.

Audience

  • Primary: In hospital staff: RN, PA, MD, Field: EMS personnel, ski patrol, SAR teams

  • Secondary: Outdoor professionals, guides, educators, and engaged laypeople

Format

  • Frequency: Once per quarter

  • Duration: Full-day (8 hrs) depending on season and content

  • WA DOH CE and Category 1 AMA PRA CME

Goals & Outcomes

  • Provide accessible, high-quality field-based CME/CE

  • Strengthen regional preparedness and community response capacity

  • Create a gateway for professionals to pursue advanced training

  • Promote cross-sector collaboration in austere and remote care

  • Lecture Topics

    • Delayed evacuation considerations

    • Pain management in remote settings

    • Medical kits, infection, hydration and nutrition

    Skills Stations

    • Building improvised shelters & splints

    • Field meds & pain control scenarios

    • Telehealth & SOAP note under duress

  • Lecture Topics

    • Avalanche physiology & asphyxia

    • Frostbite & cold injury updates

    • Team dynamics in austere conditions

    Skill Stations

    • Beacon/probe/shovel drills

    • Prolonged CPR in snow rescue

    • Team-based rescue simulation in snow or simulated avalanche debris

  • Lecture Topics

    • High-velocity ortho injuries

    • TBI field decision-making

    • Search & rescue coordination

    Skill Stations

    • Fracture management with improvised gear

    • Spine motion restriction in variable terrain

    • Evacuation planning on trail systems

  • Lecture Topics

    • Cold water immersion & hypothermia

    • Marine trauma & drowning

    • Radio comms & maritime evacuation plans

    Skill Sessions

    • Hypothermia rewarming setups

    • CPR & AED use on vessels

    • VHF radio simulations & patient packaging on unstable surfaces

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