The Surviving Adventure course is a challenging, high energy, hands-on
experience that will give you the confidence and understanding in managing
an emergency medical situation when travelling off the beaten track or in
a remote environment. The residential course takes place over a weekend,
and the expert instructors take you through an intense series of interactive
outdoor practicals to give you an understanding of how to react and manage
a medical emergency. These interactive sessions are interspersed with a
small number of superb short lectures outlining key issues such as how to
deal with illnesses caused by extreme temperatures, trauma management and
handling potential threats such as landmine risks and hostage situations.
Once the practicals and initial lectures are complete, the course progresses
to a series of fully realistic exercises. These are designed to give you
first-hand experience of what an emergency situation feels like, and how
to manage one from start to finish. Key to the whole course is the fact
that each and every lecture and scenario is presented by a medic, mountaineer
or member or former Special Forces member who has encountered such a scenario
first hand.
The course itself is based just outside Hereford and you stay in comfortable
lodgings within the grounds of The Old Rectory. Breakfast, lunch and dinner
are included. The course starts at 11.30 on Saturday, so please allow yourself plenty of time to get there.
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