CANCELLED: Mountain Medical Operator (MMO)

Red Lodge, MT

September 8-11, 2023

Featuring the Hybrid WLS:MP Certification (online modules to be completed before course), this course offers a more in-depth training into rope-work, technical evacuation and mountain navigation.

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Earn your:

WLS:MP(formerly AWLS) Certification

Stop the Bleed certification

21 hours of category 1 CME

Learn about:

• Introduction to knot tying, anchor building, ropework and litter management.  *Please note, this is not a technical rescue course, but we will be doing actual litter lowering evolutions on safe, low angle terrain.*

• Terrain management, route finding and navigation

• Large animal and livestock risk mitigation

• Mountain rescue command structure

• Radio communications

• Mountain meteorology and inclement weather management

• Introduction to wilderness ultrasound

• Mountain nutrition and hydration

• Medical kits

• Complex patient management in the wilderness

• Intro to helicopter operations (LZ staging, communications)