Element Rescue

This podcast is the second in a three part series with Dominick Briganti.

This episode is the first in a three part series of our conversation with Dominick Briganti.

This podcast is the second part of our conversation with Tom Evans.

Part I of our conversation with Tom Evans.

This podcast gives an introduction to Disruptive Rescue and the topics to be covered in the podcasts that will follow in our Disruptive Rescue Series.

Discussion: KPP's of operational climbing/access compared to fundamental recreational climbing techniques and disciplines.

This is the final episode on HRO’s with Dr. van Stralen. Probably a good time to throw out a big “Thanks” to Daved van Stralen for his time, while he was on vacation in France to talk with us. We are fortunate to be able to work with him quite a bit, and will definitely be doing some more podcasts with him in the future. Besides HRO, he is a Yoda when it comes to airway management...

This is the second episode of the three part series on HRO’s with Dr. Daved van Stralen. Quite a few topics are covered in this edition including; how HRO’s value experience within all levels of the organization, templating success by instituting reliability & resilience prior to the crisis, an overview of the five principles of HRO’s, and ways of shifting the culture of your organization. Below we posted a few pdf’s that give various examples and perspectives of HRO’s. The first pdf “Managing the Unexpected”, is by Weick and Sutcliffe (mentioned in episode one), which goes into some great AAR’s of a few past events, illustrating a how HRO’s view near misses and high impact events

HRO methodology has been permeating into a broad spectrum of high risk / high threat organizations over the past decade. From nuclear power-plants, intensive care units, wild land firefighting and most recently DoD health care systems. There is plenty of information out on the web pertaining to HRO’s, but is it valid or just another company claiming to be “experts”? We will speak with one of the originators and internationally respected practitioners of HRO, Dr. Daved van Stralen.

This is a two part podcast with Dr. Daved VanStralen discussing the topic of evidence based medicine and TCCC. We have taught and "preached" TCCC for over a decade, while defending the guidelines, equipment, and recommendations with the "mantra" evidence-based medicine. After years of unexplained failures and issues, we take a look at what "EBM" actually is, and whether its performance parameters are relevant to your operational parameters.

A discussion on... - The advantages of NFPA 1006 - What NFPA 1983 is and isn't - How the TCCC SOF CASEVAC program screwed up - NFPA 1006 JPR's and RTF - How Missy Elliot influenced operational rescue - And more...

Had a chance to talk with Dominick Briganti, a good friend and great technical rescuer. Dom has been in the fire service for 25 years and has been involved in technical rescue for many of those. Currently he is working with a fire department in Southwest Florida, and is the training coordinator for his county’s tech rescue team. We have been fortunate to know Dom for awhile and try to link up and instruct with him every chance we get. We discuss some evolutionary aspects concerning fire service rescue, 9/11, developing rescue skill sets into a true tradecraft.

This is part II of a two part podcast with Dr. Daved VanStralen discussing the topic of evidence based medicine and TCCC. We have taught and "preached" TCCC for over a decade, while defending the guidelines, equipment, and recommendations with the "mantra" evidence-based medicine. After years of unexplained failures and issues, we take a look at what "EBM" actually is, and whether its performance parameters are relevant to your operational parameters.

This was recorded June 18, 2015 after a TECC meeting in Chicago. We talked with David Callaway, Brendan Hartford, and Chris Cook about the evolution and need for TECC, how and why TECC (civilian) differs from TCCC (military), who endorses and uses TECC how RTF's are integrated into dynamic responses, what TECC has in their guidelines that other groups miss, and a bunch more.