Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute

Medical Kit Documents

The following documents are available for your review:

1. Wilderness Medical Kit System Overview (Adobe .pdf format)

2. WEMSI Personal Wilderness Medical Kit version 1.2.2 (Adobe .pdf format)
  This document contains a recommended personal medical kit for Wilderness EMTs with search and rescue teams.  It includes an explanatory preface, of use to anyone building any kind of wilderness medical kit.  There are also many detailed notes about why certain items were chosen or left out, and where to obtain some items.  Again this should be invaluable for anyone designing a wilderness medical kit.

Comments are solicited, as this version will be updated in January 2000. Comments may be emailed to the address in the file, but we prefer that commentors join the wilderness-emergency-medicine Internet discussion list and discuss their comments with others on the list. Here is the information on subscribing to this list.

Some discussion of previoius versions may be found in the wilderness-emergency-medicine list archives.
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NOTE: The WEMSI Personal Wilderness Medical Kit is NOT available for sale, unfortunately.  We don't think that anyone sees enough commercial profit in making an expensive kit like this available for sale.  If we're wrong, and someone does decide to start making WEMSI kits available, we will be certain to announce that fact widely.

3. Discussion of Trilisate (Html format)
as a potential replacement for ibuprofen/naproxen. This document provides a detailed proposal for changing one of the medications in the listing.

4. WEMSI Personal Wilderness Medical Kit (short) version 1.2
  This contains only the listing of items from the above document, no discussion or notes.  May be of use as a checkoff and to place in the kit.
Adobe .pdf format
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MS Word 2000 format

5. WEMSI Team Medical Kit list: (Adobe .pdf format)
 This document outlines a "pie in the sky" list of everything a completely-equipped wilderness EMS team might have available. Primarily a planning and reference document, and unlike the Personal Kit above, this is not a kit that his been tested in the field in this configuration.

6. Errata and proposed changes (Html format)
for the above document.   This listing will be updated on a regular basis with the typographical errors to be fixed, formatting changes, and any substantial changes or corrections.

7. WEMT Clinical Skills Checklist (Adobe .pdf format)

8. WEMT Reporting Card (Adobe .pdf format)

9. WEMT Quick Reference Card (Adobe .pdf format)

10. WEMT Patient Record Form (Adobe .pdf format)

11. WEMSI Personal Wilderness Medical Kit version 2.0 (Adobe .pdf format) August 14, 2001
  This document contains a recommended personal medical kit for Wilderness EMTs with search and rescue teams.  It includes an explanatory preface, of use to anyone building any kind of wilderness medical kit.  There are also many detailed notes about why certain items were chosen or left out, and where to obtain some items.  Again this should be invaluable for anyone designing a wilderness medical kit.

12. WEMSI Personal Wilderness Medical Kit (SHORT)version 2.0 (Adobe .pdf format) August 14, 2001
  This contains only the listing of items from the above document, no discussion or notes.  May be of use as a checkoff and to place in the kit.

NOTE: We have had a report of difficulty opening the files in items 11 and 12. If you have trouble opening these files, please upgrade to the latest version of Acrobat Reader from www.adobe.com

You might also send a quick email to our web site administrator, Bernie Roche, outlining what happened and what error message you got.

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