Basic Wilderness Life Support: A Text for Wilderness First Responder Courses

by Richard Ingebretsen

This is a textbook that can be used for a Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course, a Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course and a Basic Wilderness Life Support (BWLS) certification course. It is also a valuable new text for those venturing into the wilderness where no medical care is available. Written by wilderness medicine faculty and students at a number of medical schools, this text provides the latest updates in wilderness medicine treatment.

334 pages, Paperback

First published October 16, 2012

Reviews

[Erin]

Received this book for my Wilderness First Responder training course through Wilderness Medicine of Utah. In the past they've used a MUCH better book, Wilderness First Responder (Buck Tilton), published by NOLS/WMI. I'm sure they wanted to have one from their own organization for multiple reasons, but this one is so poorly written, organized and full of so many typos it was ridiculous. Let alone misspellings, it had different numbers listed for normal BP via where you found the pulse depending which page you read. And forget trying to find things via the index in the back.

However, it's definitely a quicker read, as you want to skim through all the bullet points (the basic format of this book). They also give you test "cases" each chapter, but never actually follow up with a definite answer. If you want a book like this, go for the NOLS/WMI version.