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Title: Rescue at Cherry Bowl an Avalanche Canada Microsite Exploring the Many Learning Opportunities From a Successful Backcountry Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Mary Clayton
Description: Too often, educational opportunities in avalanche safety are based in tragedy. Rescue at Cherry Bowl is a lesson from success; three backcountry skie...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.01.pdf
Keywords: rescue training, education, awareness, avalanche canada, rescue at cherry bowl
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Title: Exemplary Actions of Education for Increasing the Resilience of Communities to Natural Hazards in High Mountain
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Paola Dellavedova, Océane Vibert, Luca Pitet, Jean Pierre Fosson, Valerio Segor, Alessandro Benati, Elisabetta Ceaglio, Nathalie Durand, Antoine Brulport
Description: In response to actual climatic variations and global warming, highlighted by the scorching summers of 2003 and 2015, major alpine faces within the Mo...
Object ID: ISSW16_O4.02.pdf
Keywords: mountaineering, natural hazards, education, resilience, risks, prévriskhautemontagne project
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Title: Polar Circus Avalanche Response, February 5-11, 2015
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Stephen Holeczi, Grant Statham
Description: On the evening of February 5, 2015, two Canadian Military Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Tech) on an official training exercise were descending af...
Object ID: ISSW16_O8.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, risk, exposure
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Title: Gas Diffusion in Wet Avalanche Debris Pertaining to Search and Rescue Dogs
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Jocelyn M. Cramer, Eeva Latosuo, Patrick Sullivan
Description: Avalanche search and rescue dogs are an effective way to recover subjects that have been buried in an avalanche and cannot be located with avalanche t...
Object ID: ISSW16_O12.02.pdf
Keywords: avalanche debris, search and rescue dogs, gas diffusion
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Title: Triage Strategies for Multiple Avalanche Burials – a Monte Carlo Simulation
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Ingrid Reiweger, Manuel Genswein, Jürg Schweizer
Description: Settings with multiple avalanche burials and a limited number of rescuers require triage strategies, i.e. guidelines for rescuers as to where to devot...
Object ID: ISSW16_O12.03.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, monte carlo simulation, triage, cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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Title: Probability of Detection and Search Tactical Procedures in Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Manuel Genswein
Description: The search for a missing person is a race against the clock as survival chances drop very rapidly. The challenge for rescue is to find the proper bala...
Object ID: ISSW16_O12.04.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, probability of detection, survival chances
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Title: The Reliability of Norwegian Rescue Missions Following Road Related Avalanche Incidents, Modelled with Bayesian Belief Network
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Albert Lunde, Ove Njå
Description: In Norway, snow avalanches hitting roads are a considerable safety challenge for the rescue services. Previous studies have given rise to wondering ab...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, risk management, reliability, risk indicators, bayesian belief networks
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Title: The Longyearbyen Fatal Avalanche Accident 19th December 2015, Svalbard - Lessons Learned From Avalanche Rescue Inside a Settlement
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Martin Indreiten, Christian Svarstad
Description: A fatal avalanche hit houses in the city of Longyearbyen early Saturday morning the 19th of December 2015 after an extreme winter storm event. The ava...
Object ID: ISSW16_O16.01.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accident, urban avalanche, rescue
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Title: Case Study of Distracting Smells: Assessing Avalanche Rescue Dogs' Ability to Perform with Contaminants on Site
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Molly Schouweiler, Eeva Latosuo, Paul Brusseau
Description: Avalanche search and rescue dogs are efficient in locating buried humans in avalanche debris when alternative rescue techniques fail. It is poorly und...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.13.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue dogs, contaminants, scent discrimination
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Title: Distance between Electronic Devices and Avalanche Transceivers on a Professional Ski Patrol
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Shawn Orloff
Description: Cellular phones and two-way radios are indispensable communication tools for professional ski patrollers. It has been well established that electronic...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.14.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, transceiver, electronic interference
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Title: Being Prepared for Low Frequency Major Avalanche Rescues
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Donald Bogie, Andrew L. Hobman
Description: From a risk and search management perspective, an avalanche Search and Rescue (SAR) response contains many factors that increase the complexity and ri...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.16.pdf
Keywords: rescue, avalanche site control, training
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Title: Body Positions of Buried Avalanche Victims
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Daniel K. Kornhall, Spencer Logan, Thomas Dolven
Description: The body position of a buried avalanche victim can complicate rescuer's initial medical management. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center maintain...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.21.pdf
Keywords: accidents, avalanche burial, avalanche rescue, prehospital care, wilderness medicine
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Title: Avalanche Beacon Parks: Focus on Skill Development and Team Coordination
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Audrey Desjardins, Saul Greenberg, Ron Wakkary, Jeff Hambelton
Description: We observe and describe the ways backcountry recreationists use a wireless avalanche beacon training park located on a ski hill. From those observatio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.23.pdf
Keywords: avalanche beacon training park, team coordination, avalanche companion rescue, beacon, transceiver
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Title: Building an Inexpensive Beacon Basin
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Devin S. Hiemstra
Description: Beacon Basins are a great way to practice rescue techniques and educate the public but many organizations are unable to afford the price tag for a com...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.33.pdf
Keywords: training, practice, rescue, transceiver, recco
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Title: Nerf Ball: Avalanche Rescue Training Method
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Halsted Morris
Description: As advanced as modern digital transceivers are people still need to practice in how to use their transceiver. Having realistic practice in how to sear...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.48.pdf
Keywords: transceiver, training, nerf ball, bash ball
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