Thematic Working Group A: Search and Rescue (SAR) and Emergency Medical Response (EMR)

 

Objectives
  • exchanging views across borders,
  • analysing the gaps in the tools they need to operate
  • prioritising future R&D efforts
Main areas

Specific challenges for SAR include skills and capacities of localisation, stabilisation, evacuation in all terrains (water, mountains, remote and non-accessible areas) and all contexts (transportation accidents, disasters, etc.).

In EMR – for the same range of contexts and terrains – challenges include triage, trauma and life support, decontamination of people, large number of victim s’ management (mass rescue organisation, field hospitals), transport to safe areas (ground and air transport), fatalities management.

The thematic is transverse and not specific to a certain context. It concerns first responders and rescuers, as well as medical and ambulance services or civil defence units.

Useful link

No Fear project: http://no-fearproject.eu/  (Network Of practitioners For Emergency medicAl systems and cRitical care)

 

Download the "Policy Brief Search and Rescue and Emergency Medical Response" produced by the TWG leaders, in coordination with other partners and associated experts​​

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Incident command organization
Information management
Technology
Guidance instruments and standards
Communication
Knowledge cycle
Pre-planning
Community involvement
Human factors

Best practices, doctrine, lessons learned

firefightersplus

European project

GUIDE FOR CORONAVIRUS PLANNING & RESPONSE

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Publication

Research - Building local level engagement in disaster risk reduction. A Portugese case study

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Renforcons notre resilience

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XENIOS

Tourism is a major driver of economic growth in Greece. Therefore, great attention and effort are required to offer quality services to visitors/tourists who should feel safe and relaxed when visiting tourist areas. A positive experience for tourists begi...

Burnside-Lawry, Judy; Carvalho, Luis (2015): Building local level engagement in disaster risk reduction. A Portugese case study. In: Disaster Preve...

Contributing to the global dialogue on disaster risk reduction (DRR), the purpose of this paper is to address a key priority for the Post-2015 Framework for DRR (HFA2) by analysing initiatives used by one local government to increase local-level engagemen...

Technological innovation

SAPI - système de surveillance et d’alerte du personnel

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First responders flow simulation

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Raybird 3 Fixed-wing Drone / Autonomous Swarm-Unmanned Aerial System

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Aerial Robotic Fire Defender Drone (ARFiDD)

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SmokeD Wildfire Detector

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White Hawk Tethered Aerostat

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GIS-based Fire Hazard and Risk Assessment

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ENGAGE IMS/CAD (Incident Management & Computer Aided Dispatch)

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G-Sense - Earthquake Rapid Damage Assessment for Buildings

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Assistant Volunteer

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AIOSAT - Autonomous Indoor and Outdoor Safety Tracking System

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