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An Insight into Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs)

Mind The Bleep

You may work with the police, fire service, helicopters, coastguard, and ambulance services, so interagency relationships are important. Of the medical conditions reported, hypothermia was the largest group – the vast majority mild.

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CASE #6 UPDATE – FIND THE BLEEDING, STOP THE BLEEDING

Rural Doctors Net

Importantly the ambulance service in many rural areas will be staffed by volunteers – trained to Cert IV level but unable to cannulate, give drugs (other than penthrox/GTN) or intubate. Pull straight any fractures & splint them. Let’s break the case down into little chunks. Remember to apply splints to skin!

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