[at-l] Emergency Books

[awkathome at earthlink.net (Arthur Kelley)]

De-lurk for a first time post...

On the topic of courses - The local REI has a brochure for a course in 
"Wilderness First Aid Certification" put on by Wilderness First Aid of 
Alexandria, Virginia. <http://wfa.net>. Anyone have any experience with 
this? Is this course any good? I'd like to do something like it. If not 
this then what? Thanks for your help.

-Arthur


On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 02:03 PM, Linda Patton wrote:

> Turtle wrote:
>> Someone mentioned in a message that they had taken a course in 
>> Wilderness
>> medicine.  Well some of us can't take such a course because of time,
>> distance, or money.  So what books would you suggest that might help a
>> person prepare for emergencies.  Especially medical.  And especially 
>> ones
>> that would be good for Lone Hikers.
>
> 	Even a local Red Cross first aid course is better than none.  Check
> around before giving up.  I hesitate to recommend any one book, but 
> here's
> a list of possibilities and if your local library doesn't have them, 
> ask
> them to interlibrary loan them for you.  Check them out and decide for
> yourself, or with a professional's input if possible.  Then buy a copy 
> of
> the one(s) you prefer.
> 	-- eArThworm