Preparing individuals and groups to stay alive in austere environments.
True North Medical & Safety has first hand experience with Urban Search & Rescue and Wilderness
Medicine in our fulltime professions as firefighters, rescue teams, and as educators. Outside of our
professional experience, we are avid outdoorsmen that spend extensive time scuba diving, hiking, camping, overlanding, and just about anything that revolves around the outdoors. There is a reason we teach at some of the largest Overlanding conferences in North America as well as physicians,
surgeons, military, wildland firefighters, and other outdoor rescue professionals that are responsible
for critical medical care while in remote and austere environments.
o Certification: None
o Time: 8Hrs
o Prerequisite: None
o Adult CPR/AED 2 Year National Certification is included.
This is the perfect class for those who are looking to get a fundamental understanding of
wilderness/natural disaster survival and first aid for when things go bad. The class covers basic
survival concepts while in the wilderness or natural disaster situations along with basic first aid
concepts. How and what to build as far as a medical kit as well as building your basic wilderness
survival or bug out bag in order to increase your chances of survival. From gear to methodologies, this
class is great for those who do not know where to start when it comes to wilderness or natural
disaster survival. From gear to hands on skills, you will leave with a solid foundation on what to do
when the unexpected arises.
o Certification: Accredited 2 Year National Certification
o Time: 16Hrs (2 Days)
o Prerequisite: None
o Hybrid Course Coming Soon!
o Adult CPR/AED Certification is also included with our Basic Wilderness First Aid class.
The best and most comprehensive course of its kind to offer relevant and realistic first-aid
training for seasonal outdoor activities or short term wilderness endeavors and pursuits.
Wilderness environments create special situations not usually encountered in an urban or
suburban environment. With the Wilderness First Aid class, first aid providers in a remote
outdoor setting will be better prepared to respond with wilderness first aid training when faced
with limited resources, longer times to care for someone, and decisions about when and how
fast to evacuate an ill or injured person. This comprehensive 16-hour wilderness first aid course
meets or exceeds the Boy Scouts of America Wilderness First Aid Curriculum and Doctrine
Guidelines, 2017 Edition. It is targeted to the outdoor enthusiast on day trips or short
adventures. The course is taught by professional instructors with significant patient care and
backcountry experience.
o Certification: 2 Year True North Medical & Safety Certification
o Time: 16Hrs (2 Days)
o Prerequisite: Wilderness Basic First Aid
An entry-level course designed for professionals working in significantly remote settings
for days or weeks or for the civilian that wants to expand on their basic wilderness first
aid certification. Wilderness Advanced First Aid is comprehensive medical training
designed for remote professionals or wilderness leaders who venture into remote and
challenging environments. This course teaches how to manage medical emergencies
when hospitals and rescue services may not be available for an extensive time period.
We prepare students for emergency situations that involve prolonged patient care in
remote environments with improvised equipment. This class adds disciplines such as
shelter building, water purification, self rescue options, suturing/stitching, as well as
other critical elements directed to not only patient care, but also basic survival skills.
This class is an absolute must for those that may find themselves in austere
environments with the potential for things to go bad and limited on hand resources.
o Certification: 3 Year True North Medical & Safety Certification
o Time: 72-80Hrs (6-7 Days)
o Prerequisite: None
o Hybrid Course Coming Soon!
o 2 Year Certification in Adult CPR/AED is also included
The Wilderness First Responder certification is the recognized industry standard
for people who work or have a leadership role in remote environments including
wilderness guides and trip leaders, camp counselors, research expedition
members, and search and rescue team members. Topics in the 80-hour class will
include: patient assessment, how to provide long-term care with limited
resources, the decision of when to call for help, and treatments such as splinting,
burn care, broken bones, dislocations, managing spine injuries, and wound
suturing/stitching/stapling to name a few. This class will also cover wilderness
survival skills such as improvised shelters, water purification techniques, food
preparation, fire building, basic land navigation, and personal defense.
The course in a mix of classroom time, as well as extensive hands-on skills
practice through medical scenarios and labs. Final skills testing will involve
intensive day and night scenarios where patient care and personal survival skill
sets learned will be applied.
o Coming soon
Whether it be to another remote wilderness, a natural disaster, or traveling in the country. When something
bad medically happens in those environments, immediate life saving action could very well mean the
difference between life and death of yourself, a loved one, or an innocent human being. Having a basic
medical kit is simply not enough as without the proper training, the medical kit becomes useless.
Medical skill sets are perishable as adjuncts and treatment processes change on a regular basis and if
one does not practice, the efficiency and confidence to act diminishes at a time when seconds matter.
True North Medical & Safety Wilderness and Survival programs teach civilians all the way to physicians,
surgeons, and emergency response professionals the skills needed when help is going to be delayed or
possibly not coming. We have different life saving programs geared towards basic certifications to
professional level credentialing to meet your specific needs.
Cardiac arrests are more common than you think, and they can happen to anyone at any time.
• Nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur annually, and 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home.
• Many victims appear healthy with no known heart disease or other risk factors.
• Sudden cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack.
• Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when electrical impulses in the heart become rapid or chaotic, which causes the heart to suddenly stop beating.
• A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle is
blocked. A heart attack may cause cardiac arrest.
The life you save with CPR is most likely to be a loved one.
• Nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests occur annually, and 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur at home.
• Many victims appear healthy with no known heart disease or other risk factors.
• Sudden cardiac arrest is not the same as a heart attack.
• Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when electrical impulses in the heart become rapid or chaotic, which causes the heart to suddenly stop beating.
• A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle is blocked. A heart attack may cause cardiac arrest.
• Failure to act in a cardiac emergency can lead to unnecessary deaths.
• Effective bystander CPR provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival, but only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander.
• Sadly, less than eight percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive.
At True North Medical & Safety, we have custom training programs to accommodate your specific
work or school environment. Our cadre of instructors are seasoned professional first
responders with large entities that have accumulated years of experience dealing with trauma,
medical emergencies, and terrorism response. True North Medical & Safety offers single day and
multiple day training programs anywhere in the United States. From standard certified training
classes that meet OSHA requirements to custom training programs such as Active Shooter First
Aid, we can meet your workplace safety and first aid needs. For customized training quotes or
additional information, contact us via email at info@truenorthmedicalsafety.com
