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Communications November 2009 Volume 18 |
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Post-Incident Rehabilitation |
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When firefighters die, it's often after an incident, back at the station or at home. It seems that a number of firefighter fatalities from heart attacks happen after returning from the fireground rather than on the fireground. The importance of continuing the medical follow-up and monitoring after the incident is just as crucial as conducting it on the scene. 
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| Rehab Accountability, Release and Documentation Medical Monitoring and Treatment More articles by Jeffrey Lindsey
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A CPR Change You Need to Make |
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From the start of CPR in the 1950s and 1960s, through the development of defibrillation and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, the survival rate from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has been dismal and generally unchanging. Usually when this happens, it means that a fundamental concept of the care model is flawed. Recent research indicates this is the case and our current CPR model needs to reflect these findings.
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