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Title: Hypothermia During Avalanche Burial
Date: 2004
Authors: Colin K. Grissom, Chris H. Harmston, Martin I. Radwin, Mary Beth Scholand, John C. McAlpine, J. Scott Morgan, Tim J. Bywater, Abigail W. Grissom
Description: Core body temperature cooling during avalanche burial results in hypothermia, and further core temperature cooling during extrication and evacuation ...
Object ID: issw-2004-372-381.pdf
Keywords: hypothermia, snow burial, victims, avalanche, medical care
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Title: Avalanche Victim Search by Ground Penetrating Radar
Date: 2004
Authors: Christian Jaedicke
Description: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems are used in many applications of snow and ice research. The information from the GPR is used to identify and in...
Object ID: issw-2004-383-388.pdf
Keywords: ground penetrating radar (gpr), snow avalanches, search and rescue
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Title: Pinpointing on a Line: A Modern Technique for Solving Deep Burials
Date: 2002
Authors: Bruce Edgerly
Description: Deep burials can provide a vexing challenge to even the most experienced of transceiver users. "Null" and "misleading maximum" signals surrounding the...
Object ID: issw-2002-463-468.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, pinpoint search, null, spike, misleading maximum, misleading minimum
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Title: Statistical Analyses on Multiple Burial Situations and Search Strategies for Multiple Burials
Date: 2002
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Stephan Harvey
Description: Recent statistical analysis based on 466 skier triggered avalanches in Switzerland from almost 30 years (winter 1970/71 to 1998/99) causing 698 comple...
Object ID: issw-2002-469-476.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, avalanche accident statistics, avalanche rescue, transceiver search, multiple burials
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Title: Determining the Width of a Search Strip for Avalanche Beacons
Date: 2000
Authors: Felix Meier
Description: The width of the coarse search strip that is applied when scanning an avalanche is a major factor influencing the time to locate buried victims. Wide...
Object ID: issw-2000-345-350.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacons, search strip, field tests
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Title: The Use and Effectiveness of Dogs in Avalanche Search and Rescue
Date: 2000
Authors: Frank Silva
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: issw-2000-363-368.pdf
Keywords: rafts, human scent, training,
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Title: Prolonged Oxygenation During Snow Burial; The Role of Carbon Dioxide Exclusion
Date: 2000
Authors: Martin I. Radwin, Colin K. Grissom, Mary Beth Scholand, Chris H. Harmston
Description: Asphyxiation, the cause of death in more than seventy five percent avalanche burial victims, is greatly accelerated by the rapid accumulation of exhal...
Object ID: issw-2000-378-381.pdf
Keywords: snow burial, asphyxiation, carbon dioxide
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Title: Hypothermia During Snow Burial
Date: 2000
Authors: Mary Beth Scholand, Colin K. Grissom, Martin I Radwin, Chris H. Harmston
Description: The development of hypothermia during avalanche burial has never been prospectively studied. Previous retrospective reports of core body temperature i...
Object ID: issw-2000-382-389.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche rescue, hypothermia, hypercapnia
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Title: Avalanche on Newberry Crater - A Firsthand Account of a Snowmobiler Avalanche Accident and the Subsequent Rescue - January 15,1998
Date: 1998
Authors: Brian Sali, Art Keys, Pam Hayes, Mark Moore
Description: Avalanche accident statistics for North America since 1990 indicate an alarming increase in avalanche incidents involving snowmobilers. This increase ...
Object ID: issw-1998-095-109.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche incident, burial, victim, rescue
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Title: O2 and CO2 Levels With the Black Diamond AVALUNG During Human Snow Burials Lasting Up to One Hour
Date: 1998
Authors: J. Margid, N. Beidleman, C. Harmston, C.T. Crowley, C. Hatton, T.J. Crowley
Description: The patented AvaLung aims to permit an avalanche victim to breathe the air contained in snow. Hypotheses: (1) Human blood Oz saturation will be about ...
Object ID: issw-1998-110-119.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche safety, avalanche rescue, snow permeability
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Title: Drew's Slide: A Case Study of Computer Use in the Jackson Hole Avalanche Forecast Office
Date: 1992
Authors: Larry Livingood, Jake Elkins
Description: At 10:03 April 3. 1992 an off-duty Jackson Hole Ski Instructor and a companion, were caught in a backcountry avalanche initiated from above by a third...
Object ID: issw-1992-096.pdf
Keywords: rescue, burial, rescue dogs
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Title: Avalanche Rescue: Frequency Variation as a Search Methodology
Date: 1990
Authors: Derek A. Calomeni, James C. Rogers
Description: A comparison was made of the human ear's sensitivity to detecting variations in frequency versus variations in amplitude. The purpose was to investiga...
Object ID: issw-1990-211-217.pdf
Keywords: search methodology, avalanche, rescue, victims, detection
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Title: Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Police Dog Service Avalanche Search and Rescue
Date: 1988
Authors: Terry Barter
Description: The use of dogs to locate people is a concept which has been in use for many years and carried out in many different manners for different reasons. Th...
Object ID: issw-1988-150-154.pdf
Keywords: dog, avalanche search, rescue, mountains
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Title: A Look At a Statewide Public Avalanche Awareness Program: ABC's Week
Date: 1988
Authors: Dale Atkins
Description: The sudden increase in avalanche deaths in Colorado prompted a statewide multimedia educational program developed and executed by the Colorado Search ...
Object ID: issw-1988-187-192.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, awareness, deaths, search and rescue
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Title: The Preferential Detection of Sound by Persons Buried Under Snow Avalanche Debris as Compared to Persons on the Overlying Surface
Date: 1984
Authors: Jerome B. Johnson
Description: The preferential detection of sound by a person buried under snow can be explained by the' strong attenuation of acoustic waves in snow and the relati...
Object ID: ISSW-1984-042-047.pdf
Keywords: infrasound, snow surface, buried
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