SAR Fundamentals/Survival skills

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• Run through FOG SAR slides chapter 25
• hand out trip plan broschures
• discuss prevention

prevention, trip plan

improvising

• Body Management is a skill in maintenance and control of limited essential body resources and problem solving capabilities[1]
• Survival requires maintaining a ~positive mental attitude~. [1]
  • the will to live [1]
  • problem solving ability [1]
  • PMA alone is not sufficient [1]
  • how to produce
    • education [1]
    • training [1]
    • practice
    • experience [1]
• brain is most important survival tool [1]
• survival priorities [1]
  • PMA
  • Air
  • Shelter
  • Rest
    • 30 hours [3]
  • Water
  • Food
  • Rule of 3's
• Whole person concept: both mental and physical processes work in unison [1]
• Conservation of existing body resources [1]
  • water [1]
  • energy [1]
  • heat [1]
• mental step of Emergency Management [1]
  • STOP [1]
  • Stop [1]
    • Stop at first sign of danger, to give time to think [2]
  • Think [1]
    • think about immediate and future dangers [2]
  • Observe [1]
    • size up situation [2]
  • Plan [1]
• controlling fear [1]
  • many strategies [1]
  • face head-on [1]
  • recognize as natural [1]
  • establish nature/cause of fear [1]
  • in self [1]
    • do not physically or mentally run away [1]
    • take control of the situation; don't let it control you [1]
    • expand your comfort zone [1]
    • be prepared, realize it can happen to you [1]
    • have procedures to keep busy mentally or physically [1]
    • realistic goals [1]
    • teamwork [1]
    • affirmative self-talk [1]
    • spiritual faith[1]
    • be informed [1]
    • keep things in perspective [1]
• in others [1]
  • mutual support [1]
  • leadership [1]
  • avoid resentment [1]
  • avoid chiding [1]
  • accept other's limits [1]
  • comfort [1]
  • avoid letting people feel sorry for themselves [1]
  • involve in simple tasks [1]
• goals [1]
  • step by step [1]
• adaptability [1]
  • improvise [1]
• personality traits [1]
  • makes decisions [1]
  • improvises [1]
  • adapts to situation [1]
    • makes the best of it [1]
  • prepares [1]
    • hopes for the best, prepares for the worst [1]
  • knows fears, controls them [1]
• survival physiology [1]
  • food & water [1]
  • heat loss [1]
  • heat production [1]
• emergency survival
• phase 1 - emergency response [1]
  • 1st 6 hours [1]
  • protect life [1]
    • priorities and necessities of life [1]
  • first aid [1]
  • protect/inventory equipment [1]
  • conserve body resources [1]
  • signal for help [1]
  • build fire [1]
    • PMA vs physical need
• phase 2 - continued life support [1]
  • maintain physical needs [1]
  • apply survival skills [1]
  • maintain PMA [1]
  • watch for future dangers [1]
• phase 3 - rescue [1]
  • continue signalling [1]
  • plan self rescue [1]
• A survival situation is one in which an individual's very existence is threatened.[3]
• survival is living a minute longer by any means possible [3]
• improvise [3]
• nearly all survival situations are short term [3]
  • less than 72 hours [3]
  • 98% [3]
• people rarely go out of their comfort zone [3]
• people who regularly act at the edge of their comfort zone, react better to emergencies [3]