River Rescue!

Rescue skills are put to the test when a small aircraft is accidentally shot out of the sky by a careless antelope hunter. Amazingly, the aircraft lands in a stream adjacent to the Sinks Canyon Center classroom where Wilderness EMT students are ready to treat the injured pilots and passengers. Obviously this is a simulation, created by the cunning instructors at WMI.

Untitled from John Hovey on Vimeo.

In the first video, watch some quick work as students stabilize a broken femur. The femur, your thigh bone, is the largest bone in your body and very strong. If it is fractured, you face potential life-threatening bleeding and excruciating spasms of the quadriceps and hamstring muscles, making it critical to treat this injury properly and quickly.

River Rescue from John Hovey on Vimeo.

The second video highlights some of the challenges associated with stabilizing and transporting a patient in the middle of a river. What? You got wet? Well, I guess that’s to be expected on a wilderness medicine course!