Rescue
A rescuer is a person who saves something from harm or danger. They are trained in technical rescue, diver rescue, mountain rescue, extrication rescue, or/and advance technical firefightingrescue or remove the object or patient without causing further harm or injury and provide first medical treatment to that patient.
There are many different types of rescue in SA with similar requirements specialize into different jobs.
Rope Rescue is a subset of practical rescue that involves the use of rope, be it steel or cable rope, or more commonly used nylon, polyester, or other type of rope.
High Angle Rescue is associated to rope rescue because they require rope in order to move that patient or person on mountain or height from one place to another.
Water Rescue is a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions. Due to the added pressure of moving water, swift water rescue includes the use of specially trained personnel, ropes and mechanical advantage systems that are often much more robust than those used in standard rope rescue.
Section 1
Requirements of rescuer in workplaceTechnical rescue refers to the parts of saving life that employ the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally kept for emergency medical services or firefighting.
High Angle Rescue Learners beginning or start this course are expected to be medically fit and not suffering from any condition which may be damaging to safe work at height or general occupational health and safety, such as cardiac problems, epilepsy, severe athsma, spinal or renal problems or a highly infectious disease.
Learners are also expected to be moderately physically fit – they will be essential to ascend 30m in 20 minutes as an assessment criterion for the course.
Rope Rescue is like high angle because high angle also need rope in order to rescue the patient or object. This implies that for a leaner to become a rope rescuer need to physical fit so that he or she can be able to pull her or himself from the rope and medical fit. Leaner need to also dedicate to this workplace and work according to the protocol or rules of the job.
Water Rescue the person starting this course need to medical fit and not affected by any infecting diseases. The person must be able to swim and be able drive any water transporting cars.
Expectation of medical rescueFor the leaner to become a medical rescue is expected to understand what it means to be a medical rescue, the responsibility, requirements and the fully commitment is needed for rescuers.
The rescuer is expected to be able to risk his or her life in order to save the jaw of life. Their fitness will help them to be able to carry those big people.
Service that requires the medical rescue services, it shall ensure that it has personnel trained in accordance with courses approved by the Health Professions Council of South Africa, be in possession of the appropriate specialised rescue equipment and vehicles registered as Medical Rescue Vehicles in accordance with the National Road Traffic Act. d
Related training
Confined space rescue is a subset of technical rescue operations that involves the rescue and recapture of victims trapped in a confined space or in a place only available through confined spaces, such as underground vaults, storage silos, storage tanks, or sewers.
Specialty Rescue provide equipment in rescuers and help in rescue.
Firefighter or Fire rescue, current fire rescue is not effective and current fire rescue systems either focus on fire protection and management or focus on only controlling firefighters in an ineffective way. A more effective fire rescue system is needed to support on-site fire rescue. Before giving the details of the proposed construction, we first analyse the requirements of this specific application.
SECTION 2
Positive experiences that medical rescuer has been encountered in their career.
The medical rescuer experiences a lot at their career when it comes to rescuing. Their work has no bound they cover all rescue process in regard to that particular situation. They experience a lot because are occupy in many difference types of cases where they learn new skills.
Medical rescue advantages more experiences in different type of rescues
Rope rescue or high angle rescue
The medical rescuer will be positively capable of reaching a patient from above in a high angle environment with more experiences when it comes to different type of rope or high angle rope rescue, this can also depend to the assignation of yourself to this career.
They will be able to access the patient and provide medical care in accordance with their level of medical training. They will also be able to suite a patient in a stretcher for evacuation and provide support to those moving the patient.
successfully will be capable of planning and managing a search for a lost person as well as capable of functioning as a member of a search team in the field. also be able to function as a member of a team performing a cross-country stretcher evacuation over easy-angled terrain. Which means will experience working with people and knowing how to manage situations but also learn lot that is different to his or her career.
Water Rescue
Most people are not born with the skill of swimming, so when they gain a lot to that skill and become free when they are in water for long time.
They also experience working with people from different emergency medical care when there is a high-water rescue or water disaster management. Where all rescuers communicate how they will manage or work through that disaster.
They also learn more skill or different ways in diving or swimming under water like learning more freestyle swimming. This increases chances of the safety of people in oceans or elsewhere.
Negative experiences that medical rescuer has been encountered by the during their careers.This could relate in part where the community or some people in that rescue part cause the disadvantage to the rescuers from different sector. Most people or medical rescuers are scared to work in other places which they get miss treated because of where they come from, by their color of the skin or the judgement because of their past.
Most of medical rescuer according to what I think related on above paragraph get negative experiences when they cannot do one or more skin, or they are not good at that skin.
The most people relate themselves with people who are good in all skills so those who are not good, but they can do the skill are ending up not knowing if this is a right career for them.
Section 3
The requirements to fulfil the role as a medical rescuer in South Africa and internationally.
Medical Rescue
Both staff must be enrolled with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and somewhere around one of the faculty must hold a base enlistment of Ambulance Emergency Assistant, notwithstanding this both work force must hold a base capability of Basic Medical Rescue or comparable.
- Event Medical Services and instruction organization Emergency Medical Services must hold fast to the base prerequisites for either Intermediate Life Support or Advanced Life Support or Aeromedical Service and delegated such.
- All ambulances, restorative reaction vehicles and therapeutic salvage vehicles must have, as a base, the hardware as
- Air way hardware
- Breathing or Ventilation hardware
- Oxygen supply
- Ventilator hardware
- Diagnostic hardware
- Miscellaneous Disposable Equipment
- Intravenous Therapy Equipment
- Medicines Therapy Sundries
- Transport and Immobilization Equipment however some are discretionary in restorative salvage
There are many rescue hardware requirements per National Health Regulation act 61 2003.
Conclusion
The therapeutic rescuers have some skill in various manner so as to save the patient. They expect hardware to do protect and they do simply save initial step they search for any peril.
Risk recognizable proof is the procedure or condition that can possibly make damage individuals, harm of property or harm to the earth.
As per Reasonably practicable rule where practicable respects to:
- The seriousness and extent of the danger and hazard concerned.
- The condition of knowing sensibly accessible concerning the peril and chance and of any methods for expelling or relieving that danger or hazard.
- The accessibility and appropriateness of intends to expel that danger or hazard.
- The cost of evacuating or alleviating that danger or hazard in connection to the advantages getting there from.
At the point when the peril is expelled then the rescuers move or salvage the patient as indicated by standards that was made so as to forestall more danger.
Amid the salvage their hazard related with protecting the patient are alluded as 4Ts.
- Transfer high effect and low probability
- Terminate high effect and high probability
- Treating low effect and high probability
- Tolerating low effect and low probability
These 4Ts shows how the hazard can be viable so they can almost certainly decide the best approach to deal with the hazard and in the meantime to save the patient.
The therapeutic rescuers work has a group to save patient and individuals without causing any further damage and furthermore give care to that persistent amid transporting and give survey to the specialists or crisis care expert to treat the patient.
References
- The mountain guide rescue for emergency workers. Available online at:
- International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA), Fire Service Search and Rescue. 7th ed. (Stillwater, Okla.: Fire Protection Publications/Oklahoma State University, 2005), 108-127. Available online at:
- HEALTH ACT, 2003 (ACT NO. 61 OF 2003) “Emergency medical services Regulations”. Available online at:
- Francelle Theriot, 2121 Design, Brand and Digital Marketing, Baton Rouge, “Confined Space Rescue: Non-entry or Entry Rescue?”. Rocorescue.com. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
- NFPA 1670 standard on operation and training for technical and rescue incident 2004 edition chapter 3.
- NFPA 1983 standard on life safety rope and equipment for emergency services 2006 Edition.