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An Insight into Mountain Rescue Teams (MRTs)

Mind The Bleep

Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) is an umbrella organisation, with teams the final decider of how they operate. You may work with the police, fire service, helicopters, coastguard, and ambulance services, so interagency relationships are important. Each year a team usually reports CPR being delivered.

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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. Allocate someone to activate ambulance, other clinical personnel, notify local hospital and give retrieval services a head’s up.

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