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Wilderness Medical Society

National Association
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Search And Rescue

Links and Articles

Search Theory and Management
 
Medical & Wilderness Medical
 
   
Pennsylvania SAR Council & SAR
 
Downloads
 
   

 

Search Theory, Search Management & Sweep Width Information

A very interesting article on "Duty to Act"

 

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

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

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
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

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
 
This is a short history of how cold weather operations has affected military campaigns through history
 
Cold Weather & Military Campaigns

 

This is a description of body core temperature and associated symptoms in the hypothermic patient
 
Core body temperatures & symptoms

 

This is a set of medical kits used to provide medical support at a 36 hour adventure race
 
CDS Adventure Race Med Kit

 

This is the set of medication standards for the adventure race medical kit.
 
CDS Adventure Race Medication Standards

 

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

 

Wilderness EMS Institute personal medical kit in list form  WEMSI Personal Med Kit - Short form
Vacuum splint demo Vacuum Splint demo

 

PSARC and General SAR Items

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

2005 dues cover letter with specific goals for 2005

 

Useful Downloads

Some great map tools from the Bay Area Search and Rescue Group
 
http://www.maptools.com/FreeTools/index.html

A number of useful downloads from CDS

 

http://www.cdsoutdoor.com/resources.php

 

 

 

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