Podcast – Management of avalanche victims out of hospital

Hi everyone.

Big announcement, I have decided to resuscitate my podcast. The change to english is to reach my friends and colleagues in Iceland and abroad. Here, we will focus on Wilderness medicine, emergency and rural medicine.

The first episode is on the management of avalanche victims out-of-the-hospital. I did a talk to the Search and Rescue team in Garðabær (Hjálparsveit skáta Garðabæ) about it and people were really interested. Lots of great questions came after.

I have decided to re-record it under a podcast format so other rescue teams could listen to it.

The link to the podcast :

iTunes Spotify

Here is the Avalanche Victim Resuscitation Checklist from ICAR :

ICAR MEDCOM Avalanche Checklist

Graphic showing the probability of survival in function of the duration of complete burial.

Taken from Comparison of avalanche survival patterns in Canada and Switzerland. CMAJ 2011. DOI:10.1503 /cmaj.101435

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