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MEM-Course Winter

Mountain Emergency Medicine (MEM) Course Winter with Air Zermatt

Mountain Emergency Medicine (MEM) Course Winter including AHEMS topics according to ICAR, ISMM, UIAA regulations.  For health care professionals who are (or are becoming) members of an organized rescue service (Paramedic, health care professionals or medical rescuers).

Course Information

Location Zermatt
Number of participants Max. 8 people
Course date April 17 - 24, 2027
Duration of the course 8 days
Target audience

Health care professionals who are (or are becoming) members of an organized rescue service. (Paramedic, health care professionals with prehospital experience or medical rescuers).

  • Trained in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
  • Trained in Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
Requirements
  • Active mountaineer with good physical fitness (can complete at least 1000 meters of elevation gain with backcountry skis)
  • Advanced skiing and backcountry skiing skills, as the Terrain and conditions will require efficient movement in snow- and ice-covered, high-altitude environments
  • Conditions can be harsh and will in any case require advanced backcountry skiing skills while carrying a heavy backpack, sometimes while pulling a sled with additional gear.
  • Good physical fitness
  • Understanding of the organized avalanche rescue process (using a transceiver, probe and shovel)
  • Understanding of the improvised crevasse rescue including a simply pulley system
  • Movement on a glacier
  • Walking on ice with crampons
  • You must be able to master the following knots prior to the course: slipknot, pulley & hoist system, fishermen’s knot, figure of eight, prusik, clove hitch, munter (Italian) hitch, creating an anchor system, belaying, abseiling with descender & prusik, ascent on a fixed rope
Further Education
  • CHF 6'300.00 per person
  • Incl. course fee, flight time, accommodation for 8 nights, breakfast and lunch (Zermatt) or breakfast and dinner (mountain hut)
  • Not incl. gear rental, dinner while being in Zermatt, lunch on the mountain
Price CHF 6'300 per person
Course language English

For online registration click here

Practicing Emergency Medical Service in the mountains can be extremely challenging. High altitude, extreme temperatures, strong winds, unpredictable weather, weight issues, limited resources and no place for mistakes.

With more than 55 years’ experience and over 60 000 helicopter rescues, we are offering to transfer our knowledge and experience with courses at a high level that prepares you for demanding rescues under extreme conditions.

Together with the Diploma in Mountain Medicine and the Mountain Emergency Medicine Course Summer, this course builds the foundation to reach the International Diploma for Mountain Emergency Medicine (DiMEM).

  • Tackle the rigorous demands of winter alpine rescue
  • Knowledge and techniques needed to manage medical emergencies in winter conditions

Theory:

  • Introduction to mountain rescues in the Alps
  • Medical setting in mountain emergencies
  • Helicopter procedures / operations
  • Crevasse and avalanche rescues
  • Crew resource management

Practical part:

  • Helicopter procedures / operations
  • Improvised and organized crevasse rescue
  • Terrestrial rescue scenarios
  • Avalanche skill stations / rescue scenarios
  • Ski tour to Breithorn (4’164m)

You will receive a pretest approximately 4 weeks before course starts by e-mail. Please send it back electronically until one week before the course starts to training@air-zermatt.ch.

  • Winter clothes for extreme minus temperatures
  • Gloves (technical plus a pair of warm ones)
  • Winter hat
  • Face mask
  • Helmet
  • Harness
  • Mountaineering boots that will fit crampons
  • Crampons (must fit both, mountaineering boots and backcountry ski boots)
  • Sunglasses
  • Sunscreen 50+
  • Head lamp
  • Backpack (min. 30 liters)
  • Sleeping inlet (for the mountain hut)
  • Backcountry ski with skins and ski crampons
  • Backcountry ski boots
  • Ski poles
  • Avalanche transceiver 3 antenna (and extra batteries)
  • Avalanche shovel (non-plastic)
  • Avalanche probe
  • 2 HMS carabiners
  • 2 screw gate or tribble lock carabiners
  • 2 standard carabiners
  • 2 prusik slings
  • Sling (to build a belay station)
  • Belay/ abseil device
  • Personal gear for improvised pulley system

    If available but not mandatory:
  • 2 Ice screws
  • More carabiners
  • Ice axe

Please contact the course instructor by e-mail at training@air-zermatt.ch if you have any questions regarding the equipment. Gear rental shops are available in Zermatt.

Our course program is certified by the International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR), the International Society for Mountain Medicine (ISMM) and by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) and meets and exceeds the criteria of the „Specialty Course Mountain Emergency Medicine“ including the „Add-on Module Air Rescue“ by far.

International Diploma of Mountain Emergency Medicine ICAR UIAA ISMM

If you also are an emergency physician, paramedic or any other advanced medical provider and if you hold the International Diploma for Mountain Medicine (DiMM), you can be accredited for the International Diploma for Mountain Emergency Medicine (DiMEM) after completing our course. We recommend earning the DiMM through the University of New Mexico, as they are holding a very high course standard and are closely affiliated with Air Zermatt.

Continues Medical Education Credits

SGNOR (Swiss Society for Emergency and Rescue Medicine:  20 CMEs

IACCFP (International Association for Critical Care and Flight Paramedics

10 non-medical / 5 medical CMEs

We advise to fly either to ZRH or GVA and taking the train to Zermatt. From ZRH it is a very convenient train ride to Zermatt, changing the train only once. We suggest to book the train ticket 4 weeks prior by following this link: www.sbb.ch. The earlier you buy it, the cheaper the tickets are. Directions to Zermatt helibase click here.

 

Terms and Conditions

By booking the course, participants expressly accept our effective General Terms and Conditions statement. If you have any question or wish to register by telephone, please contact us on +41 27 570 70 70 or by e-mail at training@air-zermatt.ch.

 

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