The American Medical Response Reach and Treat Team (AMR) brings professional paramedic skills into the wild. AMR provides advanced life support in the wilderness when people are injured in climbing accidents, caught in rushing rivers or suffer from hypothermia. This story first broadcast on March 3, 2014.
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Chapters:
0:00 Trouble can happen anywhere
1:07 An ambulance on your back
1:57 Who’s on the Wilderness medics team
3:45 The team in action
5:19 Training for perilous rescues
6:35 Water rescues
7:52 Advanced life support in the wilderness
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