WILD- Topic 3: Introduction

Program Description: The Canine Wilderness Emergency First Aid trains individuals who work with dogs and engage in outdoor activities where access to emergency veterinary care may be limited, and/or dogs are more susceptible to becoming injured due to adventurous activities.  Skills covered in this course include how to prevent medical emergencies from becoming worse by knowing what to do when emergencies happen, how to attend to an injured dog in remote areas and provide emergency first aid, and how to condition a dog for strenuous activity with the intention of preventing an injury.  This is a comprehensive detailed program that focuses on wilderness first aid and the management of medical emergencies that can happen to your dog in remote areas, trail hiking, camping, water activities, hunting and more.

The skills and topics covered in this class include:

• Safety techniques when working with injured dogs
• How to perform emergency triage and assess if an animal is experiencing a life-threatening medical emergency
• How to restrain and properly transport sick and/or injured dogs
• How to perform emergency triage and assess if a dog is experiencing a life-threatening medical emergency
• How to provide emergency first aid to dogs en-route to veterinary care
• How to triage a dog that has experience trauma and/or other injuries sustained in remote areas.
• Obtain vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, CRT) and determine normal vs abnormal readings
• Learn about the importance of the wilderness canine first aid kit and emergency supplies needed when engaging in outdoor activities with a dog.
• How to use the materials in it during an emergency in remote areas, on trails, in the water and more.
• How to manage and provide first aid for many common medical emergencies such as severe wounds, lacerations, fractures, heat stroke, snake bites, poisoning, burns, choking among many other conditions.
• An overview of how to perform the most current industry standard method of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on dogs will be presented however this course is not a CPR training course and will not certify the participant in pet CPR. If you would like full training and certification in pet CPR  please take our Canine and Feline CPR and First Aid course.

• Course participants will receive the following:
  • A copy of our full color Canine Wilderness Emergency First Aid Reference Guide E-book (printed books for this text are not available at this time but you may purchase a printed copy of our Canine and Feline CPR and First Aid Reference Guide at this link to be shipped to you). Purchase Print Copy
  • 2 year subscription to the Pet Emergency Education Online Resource Center
  • Upon successful completion and receiving a passing score on all assessments, an official certificate may be printed immediately at the link under the final exam section 
  • (purchase official certification wallet cards custom printed with your name and mailed free shipping) Order Now
  • Copyright access to use the K9WildAid+ logo to promote that you are certified
  Upon completion of this class participants will be certified in Canine Wilderness Emergency First Aid**

Technical Tips

Unfortunately Pet Emergency Academy cannot be responsible for the access to technology each participant has nor their computer or smart device, internet and browser capabilities.   While someone such as yourself completes one of our courses, we highly recommend using a computer, laptop or tablet/iPad as apposed to a smartphone. Also have a solid, stable internet connection.  Internet connections on public WiFi are unpredictable and not recommended.  Also using a smartphone to complete a course is not recommended due to limited visual ability and varying signal access.  For technical issues please email info.petemergency@gmail.com.

Course Outline:

This online training consists of video presentations and tutorials which are asynchronous and can be viewed at the participants own pace. Participants may log in and out as much as they like but must complete the training within 30 days. Videos and tutorials are presented by Pet Emergency Education staff and our veterinary affiliates. Video presentations are tracked and progress is monitored throughout this training. There are 3 learning modules in the training and a quiz at the end of each module. You must pass a module and the corresponding quiz in order to move on to the next module. The final exam will be available after you have passed each of the module quizzes with an 100% or higher.

Module #1 Be Prepared for Outdoor Activities

Module #2- Performing Triage in the Field

Module #3- Common Canine Medical Emergencies

Module #4- Life Threatening Emergencies that Affect Dogs

Each module has assigned readings. These readings include chapters in the course reference guide and articles from other veterinary sources that compliment the topics being covered in that module.

A cumulative final exam is to be taken at the end of the course and will cover all of the material presented throughout the entire course. Quizzes and and tests are timed and you have 30 minutes to complete quizzes and 1 hour to complete the final. If the timer expires and you have not completed the assessment, your test will close and any unanswered questions will be logged in as zeros.

You must achieve 100% on each quiz and the final exam in order to pass the course.  You have unlimited attempts to pass each assessment.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at support@petemergencyacademy.com

This program 20-912150 is approved by the AAVSB RACE to offer a total of 0.00 CE Credits (3.00 max) being available to any one veterinarian: and/or 3.00 Veterinary Technician CE Credits (3.00 max). This RACE approval is for the subject matter categorie(s) of: Category One: Scientific using the delivery method(s) of: Non-Interactive-Distance. This approval is valid in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE; however, participants are responsible for ascertaining each board’s CE requirements”