“When a guy goes down, we just can’t leave him there,” saidRobert Owens, a firefighter/medic with the Henrico (VA) Department of Fire. Our current firefighter rescue programs focus on simply finding and removing the down firefighter, not the dynamic patient care environment of the fireground, or the uniqueness of firefighter patient. At his Monday morning workshop, “MedicalMayday,” Owens pointed out that a disconnect often occurs in our training programs in that firefighter rescue training typically focuses on removing the down member from the fire building and not continuing medical treatment after the removal.
Also, firefighters react differently to treating a fellow firefighter versus and ordinary citizen. Sometimes even though you have trained on patient procedures and know them,Owenssaid, the knowledge seems to go out of your head when treating a fellow firefighter.
Citing health studies,Owensnoted thatheart attacksand strokes are a large factor in firefighter line of duty deaths. “Cardiac events are killing us.” Between 2007 and 2011, cardiac and cerebral vascular events accounted for 47 percent of all line of duty deaths. Health issues may be connected with poor physical fitness, as well as the unique aspects of firefighting, such assleep deprivation，暴露于有毒烟雾以及消防的物理性质。188金博网网址多少一项研究表明，即使在缓慢的消防局，消防员也无法达到适当休息必不可少的深度睡眠。另外，在火场上，消防员的心脏通常以100％的能力工作。
The class concluded with hands-on exercises including a simulated firefightercardiac arrest, splinting, and康复中心simulations. Owens first attendedFDICback in 2001 as a student volunteer for Eastern Kentucky University. Overall, he has been toFDICaround seven times; this is his third year in a row presenting a program.
