REMS rope rescue

Lightweight & REMS Rope Rescue

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome
2. Disclaimer
1. The normalization of deviance via the positive feedback loop
2. Types of risk
3. Night Operations
1. Ropes for REMS
2. Inspection of a rope
3. Sheath Slippage
4. Elongation (Stretch!)
1. Waist & Chest Harnesses
2. When, where and why - Tie-in points on your harness
3. Webbing vs Slings (runners)
4. Single Sheave vs Double Sheave pulleys for REMS
5. Rope protection
6. Hollowblocks
1. When, Where and Why
2. Carabiner videos
1. Baseline kit for training
2. Personal REMS Loadout
3. Team loadout
4. Medical load out: Medic 1
5. Medical load out: Medic 2/EMT-B
6. Frame Ruck
7. Rigging bag
8. Litters loadout
9. Radio harnes/bra load out
10. If you had to build a REMS team out from scratch...
1. Roles and responsibilities
2. Its all about the maps
1. The Sequence
2. Whistle Communication for Rope Rescue
1. How to use knots for speed
2. Strength of ropes with a knot
3. Alpine buttery fly
4. Bowline
5. Clove hitch
6. Diestel hitch
7. Double fishermans
8. Figure 8
9. Munter hitch (Italian hitch)
10. Radium release hitch
11. Scaffold
12. Single strand purcell prusik
13. Traditional purcell prusik
14. VT hitch
1. Webbing anchors
2. Sewn Sling Anchors
3. Soft goods on soft goods
4. Cordelette Anchors
5. Powercord
6. Girth hitch Masterpoint
7. Girth hitch anchors
8. Bowline anchor with the rope
9. Tensionless tie off
10. Vehicle Anchors
1. Anchors 101
2. Equalized
3. Angles and forces
4. Redundancy
5. No Extension (& Pendulum)
6. Strong/Strength/Solid
7. Timely
1. Things to know
2. Tree Anchor Strength - Rick Weber
3. Is That Tree Big Enough? - Jaron Graeber & Kyle Reynolds
4. What if Trees Had Ratings in kN? Tree Anchor "Ratings" Based on Wind Loading - John Morton
5. National Tree Climbing Guide
1. Voodoo [Transport hitch] [poldo tackle]
1. UTV as a HD
2. Tree's away from the edge.
3. Human
4. Double sheave pulley on the ground in a pinch
5. Human Lift
6. Gin poles!
1. The low v.s. steep. v.s. high angle debate
2. One Rope (SRT)
3. Two Ropes
1. Stuff to know
2. # of Haulers
3. Rope grabs
4. Hauling TTRS w/ COD considerations
5. Change over times!
6. Poor man's JAG
1. Lowering: ATC w/ VT max/1
2. Raising: PMP w/ VT max/1
3. Pulley pre-rigged
4. Knot bypass: Raising w/ sling extension
5. Knot bypass: Raising w/ Slamma Jamma
6. Knot bypass: Lower w/ klemheist, munter mule overhand & powercord
7. Knot bypass: Lower w/ radium release
1. Lowering SMSB
2. Raising SMSB
3. Independent belay technique
1. Stuff to know
2. 2x ATC devices
3. Raising Systems: TTRS
4. Change over: Raise to lower in TTRS
5. Change over: Lower to a raise TTRS
1. Mechanical Advantage (MA) Systems
2. 6:1 w/ on the same rope
1. Considerations
2. Stokes basket
3. Feet wrapping
1. The Skedco - Initial setup and modifications
2. Skedco- Bridal attachment points & rigging
3. Skedco with 2-3 rescuers
4. Skedco - Restaging the skedco
5. Stokes basket for 2 - 3 rescuers
6. Stokes horizontal rigging - one rescuer
7. Stokes vertical rigging - one rescuer
1. Suspended pick-off with minimal gear
2. Tandem Rappel
3. Counter balanced rappel
1. double VT prusiks
2. double short purcells
3. Suspended pickoff with Jag
4. quick wrap around the patient
1. Stuff to know
2. Rigging edge lines
3. Work positioning: Going over the edge as an edge attendant
1. Same rope: Multi point anchor
2. Loading the ATC device for rappell
3. Setups off your harness
4. Tie off the atc
5. Change overs while on the rope
6. Changeovers using the ATC
1. All the terms
2. Common diagrams
1. Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA)
2. European Standards (EN & CEN)
3. Conformité Européenne (CE)
4. National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
5. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
6. ASTM International
7. The Cordage Institute
8. American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
9. EN, CE and UIAA Numbers
1. research papers and links
2. Drop test standards compared
3. The Mechanics of Friction in Rope Rescue
4. NFPA outline
5. Rescue System Mechanics, Interim Report
6. ASTM F2954-19 Standard Guide for Training for Intermediate Rope Rescuer Endorsement

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Lightweight & REMS Rope Rescue

Course curriculum

Read me first

Risk assessment

Ropes

Equipment

Carabiners

Load outs

Roles and Responsibilities

Verbal Commands

Knots

Anchor techniques

More on anchors - EARNEST

Anchors - Everything trees

Back ties

High Directionals in REMS

One vs two rope systems

Hauling & Lowering ops

Single Rope Technique (SRT)

Single Main Seperate Belay (SMSB)

Twin Tension Rope Systems (TTRS)

Mechanical Advantage (MA)

Patient Packaging

All things litters

Rescuer pick-off techniques

Team pick-off techniques

Edge Attendants & Edge Lines

Rappel Lines

Terms and Definitions

Regulatory Bodies and Standards

Papers and references

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