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Search and Rescue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

William Pierce
William Pierce
Affiliation:
U.S. National Park Service, Shenandoah National Park, Luray, Virginia, U.S.A.
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I want to first talk about search and rescue as it occurred in Mexico City; secondly, about what we learned in Mexico City; where are we going from there; what are some of the things that are happening and should be happening in major disaster management, especially as it deals with search and rescue.

There are four main phases in search and rescue. Those four phases are: First, you have to locate the victims; second, you have to reach the victims; third, you need to stabilize those victims; and fourth, you need to evacuate them. I'm going to deal primarily with locating the victims because that was my main responsibility, coordinating the search aspect in Mexico City.

Type
Papers from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services: Focus on Disasters, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 1986
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 21 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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