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Nurse and firefighter

Nursing, 2023
Abstract: The first female Chief of the Toledo Fire and Rescue Department is also an RN. Medical calls exceed firefighting calls to fire and rescue departments nationwide. This article highlights her nursing and firefighting career to inspire other nurses toward this and other nontraditional career paths.
Patricia Ringos, Beach, Allison, Armstrong   +1 more
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A firefighter with pancreatitis

The Lancet, 1996
prepared in a solution similar to 10% Intralipid. The association between hypertriglyceridaemia and pancreatitis is well known among patients with primary or secondary hypertriglyceridaemia, who are prone to develop episodes of acute pancreatitis when their serum triglycerides are uncontrolled.
A P, Metkus, P P, Trabulsy, R S, Schlobohm, M S, Hickey   +3 more
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SAFT: Firefighting Environment Recognition Improvement for Firefighters

2015
This study is to develop a device that enables to protect life of firefighters and facilitate firefighting activities. In many cases, the existing studies focus on the development of firefighting suites with many sensors and entire network system. In contrast, there are not many studies related to simple device easily used for protecting one’s life in ...
Jin Hyun Park, In Jin Baek, Su Ji Han
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Politician’s Firefighting

2006
Firefighting is a combinatorial optimization problem on graphs that models the problem of determining the optimal strategy to contain a fire and save as much from the fire as possible. We introduce and study a new version of firefighting, Politician's Firefighting, which exhibits more locality than the classical one-firefighter version.
Allan E. Scott, Ulrike Stege, Norbert Zeh   +2 more
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Evaluation of carotid wave intensity in firefighters following firefighting

European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2011
Sudden cardiac events are the leading cause of line-of-duty firefighter deaths, but little information exists elucidating the physiologic responses. Wave intensity (WI) is a new hemodynamic index that provides information about the dynamic behavior of the heart and the vascular system and their interaction. The larger first peak wave (W1) occurs during
Huimin, Yan, Christopher A, Fahs, Sushant, Ranadive, Lindy M, Rossow, Abbi D, Lane, Stamatis, Agiovlasitis, George, Echols, Denise, Smith, Gavin P, Horn, Thomas, Rowland, Bo, Fernhall   +10 more
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An autonomous firefighting robot

2015 International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2015
The field of firefighting has long been a dangerous one, and there have been numerous and devastating losses because of a lack in technological advancement. Additionally, the current methods applied in firefighting are inadequate and inefficient relying heavily on humans who are prone to error, no matter how extensively they have been trained. A recent
Ahmed Hassanein, Mohanad Elhawary, Nour Jaber, Mohammed El-Abd   +3 more
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The Capability for Suicide in Firefighters

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2018
ObjectiveSuicide among firefighters is a critical mental health concern that remains under studied. The interpersonal–psychological theory of suicidal behavior (IPTS) states that, to engage in lethal suicidal behaviors, an individual must possess thwarted belongingness, perceived burdensomeness, and fearlessness about death (IPTS factors).
Nicole, Streeb, Kotaro, Shoji, Charles C, Benight   +2 more
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Firefighting and Heart Disease

Diseases of the Chest, 1953
1) Hypertension, coronary thrombosis, the anginal syndrome, and manifestations of accelerated atheromatous changes are especially prone to occur in firemen and related dangerous occupations because of certain mental and physical factors associated with these occupations.
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