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Links and Articles
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Search Theory and Management |
Medical & Wilderness Medical |
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Pennsylvania SAR Council & SAR |
Downloads |
Search Theory, Search Management & Sweep Width Information
| A very interesting article on "Duty to Act"
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Duty-To-Act |
| A short note on GSAR management updates.
Written after the National SAR School |
GSAR Updates |
| A great article on Sweep Width |
Sweep Width |
| Objective POD Estimation presentation from the 2005 NASAR conference
(very large) |
Objective POD |
| A new paper on sweep widths and ground SAR (very large) |
Sweep widths and ground SAR |
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An interesting paper on land SAR and Search Theory |
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-o/g-opr/nsarc/LandSearchMethodsReview.pdf |
| Here is an interesting article on visual search issues |
Misses in visual searches |
| Some inland SAR definitions |
Inland SAR Definitions |
| Some inland SAR definitions |
Inland SAR Definitions |
| A guide to search management paperwork and process |
Practical Considerations for Search Management |
| An interesting article on search in suburbia |
http://www.basarc.org/papers/suburban_sar/Suburban.html |
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A paper on the search problem involved in debris
recovery from Challenger (Appendix D.10) |
http://klabs.org/richcontent/Reports/Failure_Reports/columbia/caib_report/volume_2/part10.pdf |
| The Alzheimer’s article. |
http://www.dbs-sar.com/SAR_Research/lost_alzheimer.htm |
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Camden NJ Search. Don't let this happen to you! The full report
is 30 pages long but a very interesting read |
Camden Search Full Report |
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The AFRCC |
http://www2.acc.af.mil/afrcc |
Wilderness First Aid and Medical Issues
| Search managers take
note:
Public Health Advisory: Suicidality in Adults Being Treated with
Antidepressant Medications |
[July 08, 2005 -
Healthcare Professional and Patient Information Sheets - FDA] [July 01, 2005 - Talk Paper - FDA] [June 30, 2005 - Public Health Advisory - FDA] [June 30, 2005 - Drug Information Page - FDA] |
| Will Your Safety Harness Kill You? |
CDC warning Study Paper |
| Simple Wilderness First Aid presentation |
WFA |
| Some papers on CISM: Currently there is a great deal of controversy on the use of CISM debriefing sessions. Here are some links that you may find interesting. |
http://www.icisf.org http://www.pitt.edu/~kconover/ftp/CISM-Pseudoscience.pdf http://www.pitt.edu/~kconover/ftp/Lancet-CISM.pdf http://www.pitt.edu/~kconover/ftp/massviolence.pdf http://www.pitt.edu/~kconover/ftp/DOD-Consensus.pdf http://www.pitt.edu/~kconover/ftp/cism-naemsp.pdf |
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This is a short history of how cold weather operations has affected
military campaigns through history |
Cold Weather & Military Campaigns
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| This is a description of body core temperature and associated
symptoms in the hypothermic patient |
Core body temperatures & symptoms
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| This is a set of medical kits used to provide medical support at a
36 hour adventure race |
CDS
Adventure Race Med Kit
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This is the set of medication standards for the adventure race
medical kit. |
CDS
Adventure Race Medication Standards
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Wilderness EMS Institute team medical kit |
WEMSI Team Med Kit |
| Wilderness EMS Institute personal medical kit with details. This kit is broken into three modules: Minimum, Advanced and Search. |
WEMSI Personal Med Kit - Long form
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| Wilderness EMS Institute personal medical kit in list form | WEMSI Personal Med Kit - Short form |
| Vacuum splint demo | Vacuum Splint demo |
| A note on the 10 Essential items created for a BSA adult
leader talk |
10 Essentials |
| Some views on the Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Council
direction |
General view on SAR in Pennsylvania and PSARC's mission |
| Some great map tools from the Bay Area Search and Rescue
Group |
http://www.maptools.com/FreeTools/index.html |
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A number of useful downloads from CDS
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http://www.cdsoutdoor.com/resources.php |