Rescue technician : operational readiness for rescue providers.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Student manual

Rescue operations: compliance and safety in relation to the incident management system -- Technical aspects of ropes, hardware, and harnesses -- Rescue knots and their uses -- Principles of rigging, anchoring, and mechanical advantage systems -- Incident scene approach to patient packaging and transfer -- Slope evacuation -- Skills proficiency evaluation: rope rescue systems -- Principles of vehicular construction and associated technology -- ABCs of vehicular rescue -- Vehicular extrication tools: hand, hydraulic, electric, and pneumatic -- Vehicular stabilization -- hand tools and vehicular extrication -- Power tools and vehicular extrication -- Skills proficiency evaluation: vehicular extrication -- Principles of passenger and commercial conveyance rescue: buses and trucks -- Skills proficiency evaluation: passenger and commercial conveyance rescue: patient packaging and transfer -- Compliance issues of confined-space rescue operations: first responder awareness -- Compliance issues of trench/excavation rescue operations: first responder awareness -- Aquatic emergency first responder: awareness