Do you have example in mind of what "wilderness EMT" would do that regular EMT couldn't? I'm just curious. I just thought that such courses put big emphasis on improvising supplies and carry out methods (which we learn anyway) since not everything that I have in the ambulance can be packed into the woods.

On the other note.
I looked thru a wilderness medicine handbook that comes with most of the "Adventure Medical" First Aid Kits and they showed a weird way of keeping tongue out of your way in order to keep airway clear. They basically took safety pins and punctured your tongue and lower lip which held them together therefore out of harms way. I showed it to a doc in the ER since I was wondering if you could just puncture flesh like that. He vowed to write to the guy who wrote a book (also a doctor) to take it out of there due to possible complications (infection, tears, muscle/tissue damage).

Matt