Last updated March 2026

LAMRT Casualty Care Training - the Remote Rescue Medical Technician (RRMT)

All team members will be involved in casualty care training as part of their general team training. MREW require that certain clinical interventions can only be undertaken after passing the ‘Remote Rescue Medical Technician’ certification, which needs to be renewed every 3yrs. We call these team members ‘Cas Carers’ or RRMTs. The approach to training for the certificate will differ for first-timers and for those re-certifying.

Preparation for re-certification as a Remote Rescue Medical Technician

·      Read new MREW RRMT syllabus 2024:

Download a copy from HERE

·      MREW produce a drug formulary booklet and a new App called SAR Med which is now live for both Android and iOS. The links to the SAR MED App is available via Moodle @ : ‘MREW Cas Care Cert: SAR MED App download’. LAMRT have a quick reference summary sheet of all our drugs called the ‘Drugs Crib’, this is kept in the as Card folder, for easy reference, in all Medical Sacs and training sacs; email copies are sent to all team members when new updates done. It’s handy to keep a paper copy with your Cas Care book for easy reference. Please don’t take the spare waterproof paper copies from the equipment room.

·     To help you complete your training we have a range of sessions:

• Cas Care training sessions (open to all team members)

·      Coffee and Cas Care mornings with Nick W

·      Formal logbook sign-offs once you are confident with a skill, starting in January for the end-of-year exam

·      Complete logbook sign-offs and BLS sign-off by July

·      Annual BLS sign-off to maintain certification with Nick W & Roger

·      Scenario practice

·      Review exam briefing

·      Review Medical and Trauma marking sheets

Preparation for first certification as a Remote Rescue Medical Technician

·      Candidates to be team members for a full year prior to training.

·      Candidates to have Cas Care mentor

·      Induction to be aided by structured exposure to kit, skills, and scenarios

·      Candidates to be paired up/work as a group for self-directed familiarisation and practice

·      Structured work through the Casualty Care Revision in Mountain Rescue Book & all Cas Care sections of the Training Website

·      Induction to kit – work through sacks with trainer and be proactive with re-packing after rescues to become familiar with contents.

·      Responsible for maintaining medical and fracture training sacks in sequence for 4 months each – fortnightly checking

·      On rescues seek out experienced RRMT or Health Care Professional (HCP) and discuss Cas Care issues throughout call-out e.g. thoughts on the way to the cas site and observation of care undertaken.

·      Active role in bodying for Cas Care training sessions

·      Skills triads of observation, practice and supervision.

o   Watch someone complete a task or skill 

o   Undertake the same under observation

o   Critique another candidate in performing skill.

·      Formal log-book sign-off to commence throughout the year (don’t rush to do this until you are confident in that skill)

·      BLS training and sign-off

·      Coffee and Cas Care morning 7:30 – 8:30am with Nick Wright

NB. Basic Life Support (BLS) assessments can only be undertaken by a certified BLS Trainer or a HCP with an Advanced Life Support (ALS) qualification, and all team members and Cas Carers need to be reassessed annually for the Cas Care / RRMT certification to remain valid.