Underwater Patient Evacuation Course


Aim:
This program is designed to provide air medical personnel with the knowledge and skills necessary to react effectively to an emergency in the water, extract an on-board patient from a submerged aircraft, and to participate to the maximum extent in their own rescue and continue to provide care for their patient in a water survival situation.

This program is usually delivered with the Emergency Breathing Systems Course, however air medical personnel who have completed the Aircraft Ditching and Water Survival Course may attempt it as a breath-hold skill.

Content:
This one-day course is comprised of lectures, discussion, demonstrations and practical exercises to achieve these objectives:

• Underwater patient evacuation procedures using the Modular Egress Training Simulator (METS™)

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