Tonight the team did it’s yearly basic life support refreshment evening. Every year, we learn the essential skills of CPR to make sure this very important skill is always up to date for every team member. This year, as part of our learning, we used the interactive resources at https://life-saver.org.uk/ and found it to be… Continue Reading
Training sessions
Rope rescue on Scout Scar
Team training and rigging for rescue. It seems we passed the scrutiny of team searchdogs Fern and Cullin. Continue Reading
Joint Search Training
A full on training day as a combined effort between ourselves and Kirkby Stephen MRT organised the yearly major search exercise. This involved MR teams from not only the Lakes but also RAF Leeming, Teesdale and Swaledale. Also in attendance to help ferry searchers to different locations was an aircraft from the Maritime Coastgaurd agency.… Continue Reading
Primary Survey and BLS
Team training today was medical based. Discussing Primary Survey, Secondary survey and Basic Life Support (BLS) then outside to cover a few scenarios. Continue Reading
Search and Medical Scenario
We had to search for a fellow team member who had taken a fall from his mountain bike; due to his concussed state he could not give us an exact location. After some questioning we narrowed the area down and he then sent us an image of what he was looking at. Once found he… Continue Reading
Medical
Tonight’s team training was a full evening of medical discussions and practises, ranging from snake bites through to Lyme disease via heatstroke and lightning strikes. We also included the administration of Adrenalin either through Epi-pen or syringe. Continue Reading
Peer Review
Team training on Sunday was also the culmination of Kendal MRT’s Peer Review. We are only the second team in the Lakes (Wasdale MRT the first) to undergo this process which is designed to allow teams to evaluate their Mountain Rescue practises in both practical and administrative areas. With guidance from MREW Peer Reviewers, the… Continue Reading
Stretchers and boulders
Team training for April included a ride out to Longsleddale followed by stretcher handling in and out of vehicles, Casualty Care and rigging techniques. This was followed by a rescue scenario encompassing aspects of the days training. Continue Reading
Search and medical training
This month, the team combined search and medical for a training exercise in Staveley. A scenario was set with a reported missing fell runner. The team had to put together a search plan using team members and one of our search dogs. With the casualty found, our focus switched to treating the casualty for hypothermia… Continue Reading
Medical training
Team training this evening a medical round robin including some autopulse training Continue Reading
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