HIGH ANGLE 2 ROPE RESCUE

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High Angle II is the part of rope rescue where we learn how to move the patient from wherever they are, to a place of safety or to someone who can provide better medical care and can get them to a hospital. On this course you learn to secure the patient in the stretcher, how to rescue a patient who is uninjured but stuck, how to pull a stretcher up to the top of a cliff (or building) and how to lower it to the bottom. How to move sideways across gaps, as well as some of the techniques associated with specific rescue problems.

Please note that you must have completed AND PASSED High Angle I before you may commence with this course.

You need to be fit enough to:

• Carry all your equipment

• Ascend back up whatever height you have abseiled

• Be a member of a 6-man team carrying a 100kg patient 300m cross country.

Your fitness will be assessed during the course and if you are not fit enough  then you will not be permitted to complete the course.

The assessment takes place in 2 phases:

• A written theory exam of 150 marks. The pass mark is 60%

• A series of skills stations where you must rig stretchers, construct anchor systems, rig raising and lowering systems and perform a solo pick-off rescue. You may not make functional or safety errors during these practical assessments.

Selection, capabilities, limitations, use, inspection, care and storage of:

• Pick-off harnesses

• Load-release straps

• Pulleys

• Anchor plates

• Edge rollers

• Tipods, A-frames and Gin-poles

• Solo rescuer

• Team-based

• Multi-point anchors

• Anchor pre-tension

• Principles

• Horizontal orientation

• Vertical orientation

• Jockey mobility

• Mechanical advantage and pulley systems

• Changing from lower to raise and vice-versa

• Passing knots on raise and lower

• Tyrolean traverse

• Norwegian reeve highline

• English reeve highline

• Aerial cable-way

• Pole-top rescue

• Cliff rescue