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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: The fundamentals of Mountain Rescue with Ben Cooper and Jamie Patterson
Description: In this session we will examine the fundamentals of Mountain Rescue with Paramedic Jamie Patterson and Emergency Nurse Practitioner Ben Cooper. This will include a look at the demographics and diversity of rescues within the Mountain Rescue Team (MRT). We will also examine the different specialist domains that constitute being a member of the MRT such as navigation, search strategies, team dynamics, Immediate Medical Care (IMC), casualty evacuation and much more. Finally, we will examine some seminal cases where all of Ben and Jamie’s training has come to use. Both World Extreme Medicine colleagues examine the following topics:...