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Title: How Does a Remote Arctic Settlement Prepare for Handling Fatal Accidents when Outside Assistance is Far Away? - Focus on Organized Avalanche Rescue in Remote Areas
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
Description: Longyearbyen, located at 78°N, is a small town on the west side of Spitsbergen, a part of the Svalbard archipelago in the high arctic. The rescue s...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.53.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, emergency preparedness, rescue organization
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Title: Recommendation on How Avoid Interference Issues in Companion and Organized Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein, Dale Atkins, Joe Obad, Emily Grady, Marc Piché, Todd Guyn, Rob Whelan, Kjetil Brattlien
Description: Electronic avalanche rescue devices such as 457kHz transceivers and Recco are today the primary search tools in companion and organized rescue. The re...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, interference, transceiver, recco
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Title: Avalanches in Nature Protected Areas – Except of Prevention and Rescue, The Need for Education of Nature Protection Arises (Experience from the High Sudetes, Czech Republic)
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Milena Kociánová, Roman Juras
Description: Increasing interest in winter free time activities contributes partially to avalanche accidents. Avalanche courses and workshops are one of possibilit...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-24.pdf
Keywords: education, avalanche workshops, courses, nature conservation
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Title: Avalanche Rescue and Mission Risk in Norway 1996-2010
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Albert Lunde, Krister Kristensen
Description: Well documented data from Norwegian avalanche rescue missions are evaluated according to risk assessment. Data have been collected from police records...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk assessment, risk management
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Title: Survival Chance Optimized Procedures in Rescue and How to Minimize Injuries During Excavation
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: In companion rescue as well as in the start-up phase of organized rescue, shortage of rescue resources are very likely if multiple buried subjects / p...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-09.pdf
Keywords: avalanche triage, excavation, injuries
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Title: Recreational Avalanche Accidents in Switzerland: Trends and Patterns With an Emphasis on Burial, Rescue Methods and Avalanche Danger
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Frank Techel, Benjamin Zweifel
Description: During the last 20 years (1992/93 to 2011/12) more than 90% of the avalanche fatalities in Switzerland occurred in uncontrolled avalanche terrain (rec...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-08.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, avalanche survival, mortality, rescue methods
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Title: An Extraordinary Avalanche Winter in Troms, Norway - Special Avalanche Conditions – and the Tromdalen Avalanche Disaster
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ragnar Glomseth, Tor André Skjelbakken, Knut Fredriksen
Description: This winter (12/13) was one of the most challenging ever for the regional avalanche rescue team in Tromsø, Norway, with (per 26 April) a total of 1...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P1-47.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, rescue, accident
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Title: Telemedicine Backpack: Helping Rescue Teams to Send Vital Sign Measurements to Healthcare Professionals in Inaccessible Areas
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Avellanas M., Mayo S., Rodrigálvarez V., Coll J., Sierra M., Anglés R., Hurtado R.
Description: Supported by the Interregional Cooperation Program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA INTERREG IV A 2007-2013 as part of STIPP Project and with the aim of i...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-55.pdf
Keywords: telemedicine, backpack, mountain, healthcare, rescue, accident, vital signs, ecg
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Title: Transceiver Basics and Smart-Antenna-Technology
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Ortovox
Description: Modern avalanche transceivers utilize three antennas (X, Y, Z). During searching, all three antennas are used. The X and the Y antenna are used to dis...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P4-61.pdf
Keywords: transceiver, rescue, avalanche, antenna
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Title: STIPP, A Spanish French Project That Combines Experience and Technology to Dissemimate Information on Both Sides of the Pyrenees in Order to Prevent Risk Situations in Mountain Areas
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Comet B., Dupouy J., Avellanas M, Mayo S., Rodrigalvarez V., Cisneros C., Coll J., Sierra M., Anglés R., Asiain D., Pons A., Robert A., Hurtado R.
Description: Supported by the Interregional Co-operation Program Spain-France-Andorra POCTEFA INTERREG IV A 2007-2013 the STIPP Project was developed by different ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-32.pdf
Keywords: technology, information, satellite, weather station, server, telemedicine, mountain, healthcare, rescue, crossborder, risk prevention
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Title: ARS Avalanche Rescue Dog Handler Course in Andermatt, Switzerland
Date: 2012
Authors: Sean C. Hopewell
Description: Not Available
Object ID: issw-2012-764-767.pdf
Keywords: avalanche dogs, wasatch, k-9 search and rescue
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Title: Transceiver Performance When Searching for Multiple Burials
Date: 2012
Authors: Jürg Schweizer, Manuel Genswein, Fred Jarry, Dominique Létang
Description: Two large scale field tests at Davos (Switzerland) and on Col du Lautaret (France) focusing on the performance of avalanche rescue transceivers in mul...
Object ID: issw-2012-341-347.pdf
Keywords: avalanche transceivers, multiple burials, avalanche accident
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Title: Handler Perceptions of Optimal Scenting Conditions for Avalanche Rescue Dogs
Date: 2012
Authors: Ryan R. Gould, Eeva Latosuo
Description: Little research has been done to directly link environmental factors such as wind speed, humidity and air temperature to scenting conditions for avala...
Object ID: issw-2012-363-366.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue dogs, dog handlers, scenting conditions, environmental factors, practical experience
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Title: Resuscitation of the Avalanche Victim: An Evidence-Based Guideline
Date: 2012
Authors: Jeff Boyd, Hermann Brugger, Fidel Elsensohn, Peter Paal, Giacomo Strapazzon, Eveline Winterberger, Ken Zafren
Description: Background. Earlier avalanche resuscitation recommendations, published in 1996 and 2001, were principally extrapolated from biostatistical survival an...
Object ID: issw-2012-307-313.pdf
Keywords: avalanche victim resuscitation, victim, asphyxia, ventilation
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Title: Applying Search Theory and Coordinated Incident Management to Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2012
Authors: Don Bogie, Andrew Hobman
Description: Search theory was developed by the USA during World War 2 Koopman (1946, 1980) to make hunting for submarines more effective. Its key concepts of; Ef...
Object ID: issw-2012-740-745.pdf
Keywords: search technology, victim, probability
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