Casualty care

Search and rescue utilise the knowledge of medical personnel within the team to train all their members in basic first aid skills and, for those able to, an advanced casualty care course. The course covers advanced techniques i.e. difficult extrication, spinal immobilisation and rapid triage & evacuation, and much more.

Search management

When on a live search it is important to have a recognised hierarchy of leadership, within search and rescue this consists of a search controller or a search manager who manages the operations of the team. Within each search team there are team leaders, and basic search technicians.

The hierarchy is a simple but effective process and a basic formation is as follows: Search Controller, Team leader, BST. Aside from this there are many areas of operational support that can be called upon such as: Radio operator, Welfare officer, Technical Rescue Team and a Medical Rescue team.

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