First Aid

The Mazamas offer several first aid courses each year.

Hybrid Wilderness First Aid (WFA)

The Mazama Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course, provided in collaboration with Base Medical, will teach students critical skills for providing basic first aid in the backcountry. Students will learn the foundations of determining scene safety, patient assessment, and identifying common injuries and illness. The course will develop basic first aid knowledge and skills, with a focus on stabilizing and managing a patient in a wilderness setting, where higher levels of care are often hours away. Get WFA Information.

Mountaineering First Aid (MFA)

A 10-hour course that is designed to teach the first-aider how to apply first aid skills in the wilderness, perform advanced patient assessment, improvise equipment and cope with wilderness-specific conditions. It will introduce you to caring for people who become ill or injured far from definitive medical care. Emphasis is placed on long term patient care management and specific injury evaluation. Get MFA Information.

CPR

Adult CPR & AED through The American Heart Association (AHA). The course is a blend of on-line course work first, and then practice/skills test CPR class at the Mazama Mountaineering Center (MMC). Get CPR Info.

Hike Leader First Aid

The Heartsaver® 'First Aid/CPR AED' course is designed to prepare students to provide first aid, perform CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. This is a blended-learning course - you will be completing coursework online and participating in an in-person skills test at the Mazama Mountaineering Center (MMC). Get Upcoming Hike Leader First Aid Training Dates.

STOP THE BLEED

Why Learn? A bleeding injury can happen anywhere. We've all seen it happen too often on the news or in everyday life. Life-threatening bleeding can happen in people injured in serious accidents or disasters. The drive home after a climb can be the most dangerous part of a climb. Instead of being a witness, you can become an immediate responder because you know how to STOP THE BLEED® (STB)

What You'll Gain from the Course The person next to a bleeding victim may very well be the one who's most likely to save him or her from bleeding to death. By learning how to STOP THE BLEED®, you'll gain the ability to recognize life-threatening bleeding and act quickly and effectively to control bleeding once you learn three quick techniques. Take the STOP THE BLEED® training course and become empowered to make a life-or-death difference when a bleeding emergency happens.

How We Teach In this course there will be a formal presentation at the MMC Holman auditorium by Mazamas volunteers who are nationally qualified STB instructors followed by hands-on practice of applying direct pressure, packing a wound, and using a tourniquet to stop bleeding. With 3 quick actions, you can be trained to save a life. The #1 cause of preventable death after injury is bleeding.  

For questions, please contact: stopthebleed@mazamas.org

Wilderness First Responder

Wilderness First Responder (WFR) is a lay medical responder trained to provide initial patient assessment and management, risk-benefit analysis, and evacuation decision making in an area where organized rescue and hospital care is delayed. It is targeted at the outdoor enthusiast on multi-day trips or longer adventures.  The course is provided in collaboration with Base Medical. WFR is a nationally recognized certification and this course follows nationally set standards. This particular WFR is a hybrid course format consisting of  28 hours of online work to be completed at least 2 days prior to the practical and 5 full days of 8 hour in-person practical sessions an online final exam passed with a score of 80 percent or higher within seven days of completing the practical portion of the course  Get WFR information