Category Archives: SAR

CHAMONIX ALPINE HEMS

Posted on October 30, 2012 by K

Recently french TV channel France 3 aired a fascinating documentary about french mountain rescue in Chamonix. The show focuses on the particularly lethal summer climbing season of 2012. World-class HEMS done in a way you have never seen before. Some of … Continue reading →

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DR. POPSICLE AND THE RULE OF 1-10-1

Posted on June 6, 2012 by K

We love this guy. Dr Gordon Giesbrecht. Professor at the university of Manitoba. He studies human physiology and our responses to extreme environments. He has done some groundbreaking work in cold-stress physiology and prehospital care in hypothermia. He is one … Continue reading →

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THE RESCUEBASKET

Posted on May 25, 2012 by K

There are several methods for hoisting a patient into a helicopter, ranging from stretcher systems to simple slings. They all affect the respiration and hemodynamics to varying degrees, which has resulted in some serious incidents with injuries or death as … Continue reading →

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AVALANCHE SURVIVAL

Posted on May 10, 2012 by K

                  In avalanche victims the four most important factors that decide survival are degree of burial, duration of burial, the severity of trauma and finally presence of a free airway and the … Continue reading →

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INTUBATING WITH NIGHT VISION GOGGLES

Posted on April 28, 2012 by K

RFDSdoc recently put this article in his twitter feed - ´Orotracheal intubation in darkness using night vision goggles.´ A study that proves how laryngoscopy and intubation is possible with NVGs. Being a notorious war-nerd, it is a concept that geeks me out … Continue reading →

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US DETECTS PNEUMOS IN TRANSPORT?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by K

According to a small simulator study, ultrasound might work for detecting pneumothoraces in the back of a helicopter or an ambulance. That could spare our patients from some unnecessary thoracotomies.

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IT IS ALWAYS THE QUIET ONES

Posted on March 3, 2012 by K

One warm summer night here in Norway, we responded to a fire on a day-cruiser anchored just 20 metres from shore. The five people on board had a wild party going on, when a petrol stove tipped over and the … Continue reading →

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RESCUE ON RUPAL FACE

Posted on January 8, 2012 by K

Slovenian Tomaz Humar was arguably the world’s best alpinist climber before he died in 2009 on a mountain named Langtang Lirung.  But already in 2005 he had a close call on Nanga Parbat when he was trapped by avalanches on … Continue reading →

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