From age to sex, marital status, weight, career choice, city of residence, and even hair color, Anneli Rufus reports on 15 stats that indicate who among us has the highest stress levels.
Interestingly enough, firefighters are more than five times as stressed as librarians, janitors, and piano tuners, followed closely by executive, taxi driver and surgeon.
ST. PETERSBURG — This city could bring in millions of extra dollars if it pulled out of the countywide emergency services system and let firefighters take patients to the hospital, concludes a St. Petersburg-sponsored study.
“We aren’t saying that we think the best option is for us to go our own way,” St. Petersburg city administrator Tish Elston said. “Our last option would be for us to separate ourselves from the system. I hope that’s not necessary.”
I’m not an English prude. In college, I actually took more Spanish literature classes than English. Also, I’m from the South, and we’re allowed to butcher the Queen’s English. In fact, the famed poet Robert Frost once wrote, “You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.” I take great solace in his quote.
That said, there’s been a steady degradation in communications skills in the U.S. Text messaging (LOL) and similar pursuits have reduced English to incomprehensible gibberish. Such language, however, has no role in the house of medicine.
EVERETT, Wash. — A University of Washington study released Thursday found responders may be at a higher risk for carrying methicillian-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) than the average person.
Researchers conducted the first-ever environmental health study on MRSA in Northwest fire stations and on personnel to determine the extent of the contamination.
After running tests, MRSA was found all over the fire station, reported King 5 News.
You never know what might happen when responding to a hazmat call; where even the rain can be a game changer.
Hazardous materials response is not just about CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosive), terrorism, or offshore oil platforms; hazardous substances are found every day, all around us, in industrial, agricultural, and transportation settings.
Beyond receiving the hazmat training required by federal regulations (both OSHA-Occupational Safety and Health Administration and EPA-Environmental Protection Agency), is your department ready to handle a hazmat incident? Ask yourself some simple questions:
Do we have current training?
Do we have the right equipment for awareness- and operations-level response?
Do we have current standard operating procedures for hazmat incidents?
Where is the nearest technician/specialist-level hazmat team and how do we call them?
Have we drilled/exercised on hazardous materials in the past year?
If the answers are no, or you’re not sure, find out and get some help! The next load of chemicals is right around the corner…
The American Heart Association recently released new guidelines for CPR — Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation — that recommends simply pushing down on the victim’s chest before doing anything else. Dr. Michael Sayre, co-author of the guidelines issued by the American Heart Association, told the Associated Press that “the change puts ‘the simplest step first’ for traditional CPR.”
Fire helmets are essential to firefighter safety. Improper fit, whether too loose or too tight, can cause fatigue, discomfort and even serious injury. Lion Paul Conway Helmets’ 9 point adjustment system provides optimum comfort and a customized fit. Straight out of the box, Paul Conway Helmets will fit most fire fighters with a simple ratchet adjustment (accommodates sizes 5.5 to 9.5). Our patented Center of Gravity™ adjustment system allows firefighters to adjust the Center of Gravity™ to their preferred balance and keeps it there.
Check out the following training video that takes fire fighters step-by-step through the process of adjusting the height and headband circumference of Paul Conway Helmets™.
Defibrillators, the devices that are supposed to shock heart failure patients back to life, are malfunctioning far too often, costing people their lives, according to a report released Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.
In the past five years, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health has received more than 28,000 reports of defibrillators failing, and companies that make the devices have issued 68 recalls involving hundreds of the thousands of faulty devices, the FDA said. The problems appear to have been increasing rapidly over that period of time, the agency said.
Some of the specific examples are disturbing. In one case, a company designed a circuit that monitored the voltage in the device to draw power from the same source it was supposed to monitor. That caused a momentary drop in voltage, triggering a faulty signal to shut down the device, preventing it from delivering a shock. That may have caused a patient’s death, the FDA said.
Are you a fitness buff or looking for an exercise to do around the station? Check out this video below displaying part of an intense physical workout. This exercise should be performed between sets of free weights. Remember that form is key to minimize any potential injury. The tire used in this video is approximately 200 pounds.
The waterfalls of the Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero are showing signs of life.
Engineers began testing one of the twin waterfalls on Tuesday, circulating hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into the north reflecting pool.
The cascades are the largest manmade waterfalls in North America, and they empty into pools that mark spots where the World Trade Center towers once stood.
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