Army Cadets

Medical Rescue can provide integrated medical support to Australian Army School Cadet camps and training

We currently have been supporting Newington College and Knox Grammar Army Cadet Units with annual and promotions camps with the following services.

Headquarters medic/paramedic support services

Field response support

Cadet medic training and mentoring

Search and rescue support

Ambulance Service liasion and handover

Duke of Edinburgh Award

Recent events in 2009 on a Duke of Edinburgh Award bushwalk ended up in the tragic death of a schoolboy being separated, lost and dehydration. The coroner found that there were some major issues with the 000 calls to the ambulance service and major delays in the response of emergency services due to location description and understanding issues.

This is just one example incident of a where a school approved or organised outdoor event ended in a tragic disaster and loss of precious life.

Our specialist remote area paramedics can increase the safety on any DoE event by being on location without interfering with the course of events during the event.

Using specialist skills and more importantly experience gained in Military, Police support, and Ambulance Service Special Casualty Access team our 2 man teams can shadow the group by day and night to ensure early intervention to minimise consequences of any incident. First Aid qualifications and Remote Area or wilderness First Aid training cannot be compared to our teams combined knowledge, skills, experience and understanding in paramedicine and remote area skills.

Navigation experts, bushcraft skilled, equipment such as night vision gear, personal locator beacons, global positioning systems, satellite phone and radio communications, intensive and specialist medical equipment, awareness of search and rescue procedures, survival skills, knowledge and experience in helicopter rescue, and remote area extended care paramedical experience our people on the ground can initiate paramedical care, start searches, access patients, initiate, liaise and assist search and rescue, extricate or provide on site extended care.

We do not and cannot guarantee total safety or that someone will not get lost, hurt or separated from the group. What we will ensure is a drastic reduction of the time from incident to professional specialist paramedical care, command and control of an incident and initiation of state rescue services, and therefore a true reduction of the possible consequences of an incident and that may mean saving the life of someone’s son/daughter,one of Australia’s young leaders, decreasing media fallout and parent anguish and anger, and negative publicity for the school.