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Welcome to the Africa SAFE-T Online Incident Management Resource Centre

IF YOU WANT TO:

1. Find out about who we are or what services we offer:

Click on the "About us" tab on the left navigation bar.

2. Get documents or forms for any reason:

Go straight to the "downloads" tab on the left navigation bar. Look in the folder that best describes the category of document you are looking for.

3. Plan a first aid training session or operational drill:

Click on the "Capacity Building" tab on the left navigation bar and then select training. Read about our curriculum, be sure you understand the teaching style and objectives (you will find a document on this accessible on this page) and download the training planning tool available on this page.

4. Spend some time studying Wilderness Medicine:

Click on the "Downloads" tab and there you will find a folder titled "Wilderness Medicine". There you will find a few downloadable documents for you to read through and better understand Wilderness Medicine.

5. Work on your Emergency Response Plan or learn about the Incident Command System:

Click on the "Risk Reduction" tab. There will be a drop down tab and then you click on the tab titled "Emergency Response plans". To learn about the incident command system click on the "Incident Management" tab and there you will find a link title "Applying the incident command system".

 

About the Site

  This site was created to provide:
  • Information and guidance
  • Documents, forms and other tools to be downloaded and used
  • Assistance for training and other preparation activities
  • A place for people to “meet” and discuss matters of common concern
 This site has been built as a service to the industry to assist our ongoing effort to contribute meaningfully to tourism in Africa.  Our founding vision is to make a difference to Africa and its communities by strengthening the tourism infrastructure across the continent.  This is our mission and our work.  More now than ever we compete in an international marketplace and potential guests compare our African offerings to those on other continents.  Although we can't serve food, run adventure activites, host in consumate destinations or provide unique life-changing experiences, we do believe in Africa's ability to offer these.  Instead our job is to support the people who host the world on our continent and ensure that when guests are ill, injured or suddenly find themselves in an urgent situation where something has gone wrong they can receive the same professional and capable service that they experience when things are going right.  

We want to see this continent's tourism destinations known as safe locations to travel, with the infrastructure, know-how and skills to look after guests in trouble and know that if we contribute this little piece to the overall tourism product we will have done our bit to boost Africa as a destination and helped its people to reap the benefits that can accrue from this.
 
On the main navigation bar on the left you will find the focus areas we believe are important in realizing a capable tourism emergency infrastructure.  Within this online resource centre we will be accumulating support materials to assist the industry manage emergency incidents.  There are also details on programmes, consulting and training we run for clients.  Lastly we have links to other online resources, forums worth scanning for discussion of topics that may currently be relevant to your organization and interesting news items which generally have lessons from which we can all learn.
 
If you have any comments, need further information or want to find out more about what we do, feel free to contact us.
 
Yours in the interests of responsible and capable tourism,
 
Dr. Simon King

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List of Available Downloads

Here is a list of all downloadable documents on the site:

To access these click on the "downloads" tab on the left hand navigation bar.

Barotrauma related illnesses:

Risk factors for pulmonary barotrauma in divers, Tetzlaff, America, 2008. Available to clients only 

 Long-term follow-up of survivors of acute lung injury, Cooper, 1999. Available to clients only 

Early Barotrauma in patients with acute lung injury, Eisner, San Francisco, 2002. Available to clients only

Barotrauma and Oxygen Toxicity, Van Marter, America. Available to clients only

Brochures:

Wilderness first aid

Who we are

SATIB24 crisis call brochure

Medical Responce

Incident management

First aid kits

Clinical Reasoning and Cognitive error:

Strategies to Promote Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning, Bowen, Portland, 2006. Available to clients only 

Diving Medicine:

Neurological complications of scuba diving, Newton, Ohio. Available to clients only

Divin-related emergencies, Abstract, Hardy, North America. Available to clients only

Envenomation:

Scorpion envenomation, Abstract, Rimza, Arizona. Available to clients only   

Recurrent an Persistent Coagulopathy following Pit Viper Envenomation, Boyer, North America, 2008. Available to clients only 

PIB use in jellyfish envenomation, Pereira, Australia, 2000. Available to clients only

Heat Related Illnesses:

Heat related illnesses: Abstract, Yarbrough. Available to clients only 

Heat related illnesses, Barrow, Ohio. Available to clients only 

Heat intolerance: predisposing factor or residual injury?, Epstein, America, 1990. Available to clients only 

Exercise - Associated Hyponatremia, Hew-Butler, Cape Town, South Africa, 2005. Available to clients only

Evaluation and treatment of heat-related illnesses, Wexler, Ohio, 2002. Available to clients only

High altitude illnesses:

High altitude pulmonary edema: Current concepts, Hultgren, California, 1996. Available to clients only 

High altitude pulmonary edema, Abstract, Bartsch, 1999. Available to clients only 

Altitude illness is common in people ascending to more than 2500 Meters. Available to clients only 

Incident Management:

Incident management steps. Available to clients only

Applying the incident command system. Available to clients only

Toxicity of plants:

Directly toxic effects of plant chemicals, Seawright, Australia, 1995. Available to clients only 

Training:

Teaching wilderness first aid. Available to clients only 

EWFA Training manual: Part 1, King, South Africa, 2008. Available to clients only

EWFA theory. Available to clients only

Tropical Diseases:

Water DistributionSystem and Diarrheal Disease Transmissin, Semenza, California. Available to clients only

Tick-borne Tularemia, Abstract, Markowitz, South Dakota. Available to clients only

Tick-borne Diseases, Gayle, Columbia, 2001. Available to clients only

Malaria in 2002, Greenwood, Africa, 2002. Available to clients only

Incorporating a Rapid-Impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Hotez, United Nations, 2006. Available to clients only

Emergence of Western Diseases in the Tropical World, Forrester, UK. Available to clients only

Economic Burden of Malaria, Gallup, Massachusetts. Available to clients only

Concurrent infection of the central nervous system, Eskow, 2001. Available to clients only

Coinfection with Multiple Tick-Borne Pathogens, Kordick, North Carolina, 1999. Available to clients only

A new tick-borne disease?, Abstract, Kirkland, North Carolina. Available to clients only

White water rafting injuries and accidents:

Injuries in commercial white water rafting, Whisman, West Virginia, 1998. Available to clients only 

How can the risks be minimised. Available to clients only 

Wilderness medicine:

Wilderness medicine

What is wilderness and rescue medicine

Expedition health and safety: a risk assessment, Anderson, JRCM, 2000 

 

 

 

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Patients don’t always have to be air lifted to hospital and when they do sometimes fixed wing aircraft are better than helicopters.  If it is in the best interests of the patient to be airlifted then our clients rest assured that as independent and objective managers, focusing on the needs of the patient, we will source, arrange and choose the best option for the situation.

Recently the need did arise for us to airlift a patient, a Swedish guest at a lodge in the Hoedspruit area who suddenly became seriously ill. After all the relevant arrangements and GOP’s were obtained from the travel insurance the helicopter was dispatched and landed shortly afterwards in the front yard of the lodge to pick up the patient and fly him to an appropriate medical facility.

 

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According to statistics gathered by Dr Simon King, at least 13 people died last year in tourist destinations in the Limpopo/Mpumalanga lowveld alone. More than 40 serious medical emergencies such as multiple fractures, head injuries and paralysis cases also happened to lowveld holiday makers in the same time, and King believes this is an under-representation of the statistics.

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