This First Aid + Marine Medicine course is for racing yachtsmen and highly recommended for all who venture offshore under power or sail.
Most yachtsmen and women undertake basic first aid training as a precaution against the inevitable accidents at sea. But we are only taught how to stabilize a patient until the ambulance arrives, usually within 11 minutes for accidents ashore.
At sea, using Radio Medical, the response time for a medivac is 3 hours.
Our course is an online pre-learning, plus one full day of quality instruction.
What certifications will I earn?
- HLTAID011 – Provide First Aid
- HLTAID010 – Provide basic emergency life support
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HLTAID009 – Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
What will I learn?
- Marine specific injuries
- improvised medical techniques in a marine environment
- Injections and how to give them
- Radio medical protocols & medical kit recommendations
- CPR in a marine environment
- Severe burns & bleeding, how to suture wounds
- Patient evacuation by helicopter & marine rescue
- Bone & crush injuries; concussion
- Hypothermia treatment and much more
- This course builds on your basic first aid training
- Ideal for revalidation of your existing qualification
Marine Medical Training
The training is conducted by wilderness trainers- First Aid Certificates valid for 3 years
- Expedition Medicine Module – Marine Medicine
- Marine Medicine (partial completion)
- Ideal training for the remote (marine) workplace