
The Role of Today’s SAR Medic
The role of today’s SAR Medic is a challenging one. Today’s rescue environment demands the highest levels of prehospital care be delivered to patient side despite the technical environment that might present itself. Whether it be reducing a shoulder on a multi pitch climb, pulling a lifeless body from a snowy hole and bringing her to a complete recovery with ECMO, giving pain meds to the multi trauma on a Combat SAR (CSAR) mission, or resuscitating a cardiac arrest on a HETS