Downloads, Links, Articles, Tools, etc.
Links
Search and Rescue Organizations
- Mountain Rescue Association
- Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group
- National Association of Search and Rescue
- Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Council
- Bay Area Search and Rescue Council (cool map tools)
- National Cave Rescue Commission - Eastern Region
- Wilderness Emergency Strike Team (WEST)
Wilderness Medical Organizations
- Wilderness Medical Society
- Dr. Keith Conover Homepage
- Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute
- WEMSI - EUROPE (Wildmedic.org)
- EMT CITY.COM
SAR and Outdoor Equipment
Other Websites
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Files, Articles and Other Useful Information
General Files/Information
- CDS Course Overview and Learning Obj (PDF)
- Duty to Act Court Case Article - Oct 2005
- Underwater Gasp Reflex Information
Search Management Files/Information
- Coast Guard Newsletter about cold water drowning (PDF)
- Search Command Initial Checklist
- Practical Search Considerations Information
- UTM Grid for all Map Sizes
- Area Estimator
- Map Tool for 1:24,000 Map:
- Mini Ops Kit Checklist
- ICS -100 Class/Packet
- Compatibility of SAR Procedures with Search Theory
- Space Shuttle Columbia NASA Search Data
- The Alzheimer's Article
PASRC/Other SAR Organization Files
- PSARC Operations Kit
- PSARC Medical Kit
- PSARC Communications $ Semi-Tech Kit
- PSARC Team Level Requirements
Wilderness Medical File/Information
- Different Types of Scotch Casting Materials
- Poison Ivy Information
- Wilderness Medical Society WFR Guidelines
- ASRC Medical Policy - PA
- WEMSI Personal Medical Kit (Full Listing)
- WEMSI Personal Medical Kit (Check List)
- System O2 - Portable Oxygen generation system may be inadequate.
- Personal, Team, and Base Medical Kit list for 1st Special Response Group
- Do Not Resuscitate Information For Pennsylvania
- Heat Illness in the Israeli Army
- Fluid and Electrolyte Balance and Endurance Exercise
- History of Wilderness EMS
- Hypothermia and Cave Rescue
- PA Wilderness EMS General Protocols
- Mosquitoes and Insect Repellant
- Cold Weather Military Campaigns
- Core body temperatures and symptoms
