Name
Broken and Alone: Wilderness Trauma Essentials
Description
This session provides a practical, evidence-informed approach to trauma assessment and stabilization in remote or resource-limited environments. Participants will learn to rapidly identify life-threatening injuries, manage common traumatic presentations with limited equipment, and adapt standard trauma principles to wilderness and austere settings. The session emphasizes improvisation, environmental considerations, and decision-making when definitive care may be hours away. Realistic field scenarios and case-based discussion will help learners build confidence in managing fractures, dislocations, soft-tissue injuries, and multi-system trauma when “you are the only help for miles.”
NYS CME - All Levels - Core- Trauma
Speakers
Bryan FleischmanPhysician Associate (PA), Firefighter-Paramedic, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Family and Preventive MedicineBryan Fleischman is a Physician Associate (PA) who completed an emergency medicine residency, currently practicing rural critical access emergency medicine while serving as a firefighter-paramedic. His background includes high-volume 911 and critical care transport work in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also has extensive experience in outpatient and mobile anesthesiology with a strong emphasis on advanced airway management, primarily with pediatric patients. Bryan serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Emory University School of Medicine, mentors MD and PA students through the Emory Farmworker Project, and remains an active EMS educator and ALS preceptor.
Date & Time
Saturday, November 14, 2026, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM