Rescue Technician

Preface. Acknowledgements. Session Guide. Synopsis. Skills Card. Session 1. Rescue Operations. Session 2. Technical aspects of Ropes, Hardware, and Harnesses. Session 3. Rescue Knots and their Uses. Session 4. Principles of Rigging, Anchoring, and Mechanical Advantage Systems. Session 6 Incident Scene approach to Patient Packaging and Transfer. Session 7. Slope Evacuation. Session 8 Skills Proficiency Evaluation: Rope Rescue System. Session9 Principles of Vehicular Construction and Associated Technology. Session 10. ABCs of Vehicular Rescue. Session 11. Vehicular Extrication Tools: Hand, Hydraulic, Electric, and Pneumatic. Section 12 Vehicular Stabilisation. Session 13. Hand Tolls and Vehicular Extrication. Session 14. Power Tools and Vehicular Extrication. Session 16. Principles of Passenger and Commercial Conveyance Rescue Buses and Trucks. Session 17. Skills Proficiency Evaluation; Passenger and Commercial Conveyance Rescue Patient Packaging and Transfer. Session 18. Compliance Issues of Confined-Space Rescue Operations; First Responder Awareness. Session 19. Compliance Issues of trench/Excavation Rescue Operations; First Responder Awareness. Session 20. Aquatic Emergency First Responder: Awareness.