SAR Medical Support
Search and Rescue Medical Support Lead: Christopher Anderson, EMT-P
The newest mission of the team is to expand to assist with providing medical support to highly-focused and technical rescue personnel of organizations such as Appalachian Mountain Rescue Group and Pennsylvania Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team. AMRG is a wilderness search and rescue team that operates out of Pittsburgh, PA. PA-HART is a collaboration where the Pennsylvania Army National Guard provides the military personnel and aircraft that is responsible for hoisting the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's rescue technicians into scenarios such as rescues from flooded areas, swift moving waters, and land based remote areas.
With these missions occurring in austere, remote and possibly devastated areas, these rescue agencies may not know the level of medical care that may be available upon their arrival at a scene. In these scenarios the team is able to respond to the site to provide advanced medical support until local EMS agencies are able to transport patients. This relationship allows the medically trained rescue technicians to focus on their primary mission while knowing they have the support of individuals with the primary assignment of caring for victims. Not only do our providers care for victims until care can be transferred but they focus on providing care to the responders while they are isolated from definitive care facilities when on their missions.
SAR Medical Support
The newest mission of the team is to expand to assist with providing medical support to highly-focused and technical rescue personnel of organizations such as Appalachian Mountain Rescue Group and Pennsylvania Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team. AMRG is a wilderness search and rescue team that operates out of Pittsburgh, PA. PA-HART is a collaboration where the Pennsylvania Army National Guard provides the military personnel and aircraft that is responsible for hoisting the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's rescue technicians into scenarios such as rescues from flooded areas, swift moving waters, and land based remote areas.
With these missions occurring in austere, remote and possibly devastated areas, these rescue agencies may not know the level of medical care that may be available upon their arrival at a scene. In these scenarios the team is able to respond to the site to provide advanced medical support until local EMS agencies are able to transport patients. This relationship allows the medically trained rescue technicians to focus on their primary mission while knowing they have the support of individuals with the primary assignment of caring for victims. Not only do our providers care for victims until care can be transferred but they focus on providing care to the responders while they are isolated from definitive care facilities when on their missions.
SAR Medical Support
- Component
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioner
- Registered Nurse
- Paramedics
- EMTs
- Logisticians
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