Wilderness Medical Society
Clinical Practice Guidelines

The Wilderness Medical Society is a non-profit membership society, and the world’s leading organization devoted to wilderness medicine. Among many publications of the WMS are their Clinical Practice Guidelines, which provide invaluable guidance to responders of all training levels and licenses who are in responding to wilderness medical challenges. The WMS Clinical Practice Guidelines are a key resource to our instructors and program developers at Coast, and we hope that you find them as useful as we have.

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Spinal Cord Protection

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Out-of-Hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Frostbite

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Heat Illness

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment and Prevention of Drowning

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Water Disinfection for Wilderness, International Travel, and Austere Situations

• Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes Management

• Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Avalanche and Non-Avalanche Snow Burial Accidents

• Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Pitviper Envenomations in the United States and Canada

• Use of Epinephrine in Outdoor Education and Wilderness Settings

• Treatment of Eye Injuries and Illnesses in the Wilderness

• Treatment of Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia

• Prevention and Treatment of Lightning Injuries

• Treatment of Acute Pain in Remote Environments

• Basic Wound Management in the Austere Environment

• Prevention and Management of Tick-Borne Illness