Recommendations · ICAR – International Commission for Alpine Rescue

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2025 Rescue at Very High Altitude: Pharma- cological Prophylaxis and Supplemental Oxygen for Unacclimatised Rescuers

MEDCOM Recommendation - Passed by the AOD on the 11th October 2025. Review date 2030.

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Organized Avalanche Rescue Probing Strategies (2015, Updated 2025)

The AVA COM updated Recommendation 0011 originally titled "Probing Strategies" in 2025 at the Jackson Hole, WY Congress.

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Phases in an Avalanche Search-Recommendation 009 (2008, Updated 2025)

The AVA Commission updated the 2008 Recommendation "Use of Terms and Search Phases in an Avalanche Search with Transceivers"

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Wildfire - TERCOM Recommendation Nr. 11

Terrestrial Rescue Commission - Recommendation 0011 - Issued 2025 - AoD Jackson Hole

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Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems - TERCOM Recommendation Nr. 5

Terrestrial Rescue Commission - Recommendation 0005 - Tensioned Rope Rescue Systems (Issued 1999, revised 2000, 2005, 2017, 2022 and 2025)

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Avalanche Transceiver

Avalanche Rescue Commission - Recommendation 0002 - Personal Avalanche Transceiver

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ICAR Recommendations for Stress Resilience in Alpine Rescue

Alpine Emergency Medicine Commission - Recommendation 0035

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ICAR Termination of Resuscitation in Mountain Rescue updated Recommendations

Alpine Emergency Medicine Commission - Recommendation 0034

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Avalanche Victim Resuscitation Checklist (Version 2023)

Alpine Emergency Medicine Commission - Recommendation 0033

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Approved ICAR Medical Management of Avalanche victims

2022 - Prepared for the AOD and amended March 2023 following peer-reviewed publication of the ICAR MedCom recommendations by John Ellerton (MedCom President)

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