"Wilderness Emergency Care" is a textbook written to support the two courses listed below:
Wilderness First Responder (WFR) is a professional-level 80-hour course that trains you to understand and avoid wilderness hazards and cope with emergencies anywhere. You learn how to assess injuries and medical or environmental problems, and do emergency care with whatever you have on hand or can improvise. So this course also prepares you for disaster situations, when emergency medical services and hospitals are overwhelmed or inaccessible. Skills practice is intensive. Simulated accidents help you put your skills together and develop your leadership abilities.
Wilderness EMT Upgrade (WEMTU) is a 40-hour course that adds the wilderness knowledge and skills from WFR to the urban-oriented training of those currently certified as EMTs or Paramedics. It can be taught as an independent class, or as a certification option in a WFR course. Graduates who are EMTs or Paramedics receive a WEMT certification. All other graduates receive a WFR certification.