REC (L5) travel & expedition first aid for entrust by bryn walking

November 12th/13th rec (l5) travel & expedition first aid at sennybridge camp in the bannau brycheiniog national park for 9 participants

This 16hr REC Advanced First Aid course was for 9 participants who were all highly qualified and very experienced outdoor professionals. Their primary role is to train new army recruits in a range of outdoor adventurous skills.
Bryn Walking advanced training courses have a maximum of 9 participants.
Alan Ward (International Mountain Leader) was the Course Tutor.
A two day course (16 hours). The Travel and Expedition First Aid course is designed to introduce a systematic way of advanced first aid for managing casualties in remote areas and at high altitude. Topic learning and practicals intermixed with scenarios of real situations. The course includes:

• Development of skills gained at emergency level: Primary & Secondary Surveys, Choking, CPR and AED

• In-depth review of emergency care topics and practical revision to demonstrate competence

• Advanced techniques • skills • development

• Review of special interest topics by the candidates

Course Content: The course is progressive by building on each session, introducing new outdoor scenarios to test all techniques for:

• Environment: hazards • cold • heat • chemicals • poisons • light • toxic substances

• Escort: vital signs • psychological • monitor • fluids • stretcher • splints • pain control

• Illness: chest pain • stroke • asthma • epilepsy • diabetes • poisons • hyperventilation • mental • hyponatraemia • sepsis

• Scenarios: triage • incident management • emergency plans • action cards

• Travel: dislocations • wound management • tropical diseases • gastric illnesses • altitude (incl. PAC)

The Assessment
This Travel & Expedition First Aid course is assessed in various ways including: REC L2 Individual Test Paper, Structured assessment of outdoor scenarios, a REC L5 Team Challenge Test Paper and continuous assement during the course.
Course feedback: The greatest strengths of this course - 

• Excellent equipment - Content supported by experience and stories
• Delivered at the right pace/manner to the audience
• Educational
• Nice stories - gave context to the subjects
• Applicable to my work
• Scenarios
• Great course with some great stories
• Context
• Practical application
• Theory was good
• Practice was good
• Lots of variety
• Interesting content around the info with case studies etc
• Well Delivered

1. Note from one candidate: "Be aware that self-harm scenarios can be very triggering - those with a self-harm history may not disclose this"
2. Note from another candidate: "Bit of whisky - only joking"​

gallery: choking (choking charlie - actfast choking vests - lifevac antichoking device)  - cpr (QCPR manikins with electronic performance monitors) - aed

gallery: portable altitude chamber (PAC)

gallery: outdoor scenarios

GAllery - miscellaneous