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Title: | Wilderness Technical Rescue |
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Long Title: | Wilderness Technical Rescue |
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Course Description: | Provides students with advanced skills needed for technical wilderness evacuation. Curriculum goes beyond basic wilderness evacuation competencies taught in wilderness first responder or wilderness EMT courses. Topics: organizing, planning and managing technical rescues, SAR knots and anchor systems, patient packaging for technical evacuations, rescue load lowering/raising systems and wilderness technical evacuations medical considerations. Efficient, safe wilderness evacuation skills are developed through a combination of lecture, lab and challenging scenarios. |
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Min Credit: | 1 |
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Course Notes: | NCE 11.19.15 JLG |
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Origin Notes: | CMC |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES
1. Demonstrate safety as a priority using judgment and decision making skills.
2. Demonstrate organization and planning skills in a wilderness technical rescue evacuation using briefings and safety checks.
3. List and demonstrate common knots & multiple anchor systems utilized in search and rescue technical evacuations.
4. Demonstrate patient care in a rescue litter for a technical rope rescue.
5. Demonstrate litter management skills on flat to low angle technical terrain.
6. Use a descent control device for lowering and belaying of a low angle rope rescue.
7. Construct practical mechanical advantage systems for technical scree evacuations.
8. List and identify medical considerations for wilderness technical rescue evacuations.
TOPICAL OUTLINE
I. Utilizing decision-making & risk management tools for technical SAR operations.
a. Common SAR decision making frameworks
II. Organizing and planning a technical wilderness evacuation.
a. SAR “LAST” principle
b. Incident management systems for SAR
c. Conducting field briefings
d. SAR communication guidelines
III. System safety guidelines and checklists.
a. Best practices for SAR technical evacuations
b. System safety factors
c. Critical point analysis
IV. Knots & Anchors
a. Knots, bends & hitches for SAR applications
b. Fundamentals of anchor systems for SAR
c. High strength tie-offs
d. Multiple anchors systems
V. Patient packaging for technical evacuations.
a. Stokes litters
b. Ferno litters
VI. Litter evacuation techniques
a. Non-technical walk outs
b. Low-angle technical evacuations
c. Technical scree evacuations
VII. Operating descend control devices
a. Lowering rescue loads
b. Belaying rescue loads
c. 1 versus 2 rope considerations
VIII. Mechanical advantage systems
a. Tension method for mechanical advantage system analysis
b. 3:1 simple mechanical advantage system
c. 5:1 simple mechanical advantage system
d. 6:1 compound mechanical advantage system
IX. Medical considerations for wilderness technical rescue evacuations
a. Technical medical kits & specialized medical equipment
b. Extended patient transport guidelines
c. Special considerations for the trauma patient
d. Special considerations for the medical patient
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