Surface Ice Rescue

This book provides practical, up-to-date information on training, team management, equipment, and techniques for ice rescue teams , including a special section on ice formation, patient handling, and the reaction of the human body to cold.

Contents

• No ice is safe ice
• Preplanning the surface ice rescue response
• The three levels of training
• Who responds to ice rescue incidents?
• Managing an operation
• Surface ice rescue equipment
• Awareness-level duties and responses
• Operational-level duties and responses
• Technical-level duties and responsibilities
• Communication and line tending
• Special ice rescue situations
• Ice formation and types
• Cold stress and hypothermia
• The four processes of heat loss
• Heat and fluid loss
• How repeated exposure to cold affects us
• Cold stress, immersion, and fluid loss
• Chillblains, frostnip, frostbite, and freezing
• Drowning
• References and additional reading
• Answers to study questions