Cross posted to TKT
Well, it looks like the fire service objections to the high visibility vest rules will be sustained by the feds. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) rule 634 notice of final rule published in June 2009 apparently will acquiese to fire service cries of foul, allowing exemption from the need to wear hi-vis [...]
(Cross Posted to Fire Engineering Editorial Blog and TKT Blog May 22, 2009)
This essay was written by Dr. John P. Pryor. He was a trauma surgeon who refused to be idle when so many wounded Americans and Iraqis could be helped by his skills. He enlisted in the Army reserve and wrote this article after [...]
(Posted here first, also posted on Fire Engineering Editorial Blog, Fire Rescue1.com and linked from TKT)
Egypt ordered a mass slaughtering of pigs as a supposed precaution against swine flu. Vice President Joe Biden told Today show host Matt Lauer that airplane and subway travel posed high risk for flu virus transmission. An ED doc in the [...]
(originally posted to Fire Engineering Editors Blog and TKT Blog April 27, 2009)
The swine flu buzz is causing information overload. There are three things pertinent to the fire service that must be implemented immediately to protect your members, provide excellent patient care, and be a good public health partner. Here’s the list:
Fire Service Leaders
Immediately notify [...]
(originally published on TKT April 23, 2009)
The recent news splash about two Las Vegas firefighters who mistakenly declared a patient dead is a painful lesson on the consequences of complacency. The patient, who had shot himself in the head, was found alive by the coroner after responding firefighter/EMTs called off an ALS unit, deciding the [...]
(originally posted to The Kitchen Table blog February 8, 2009)
Go figure. At some point in 2005, the New York Legislature aligned a series of Vehicle and Traffic Laws with federal specifications to assure continuance of federal highway and traffic safety monies. Somehow, somewhere, things went awry. Curiously, the faux paux went pretty much unnoticed by [...]
(originally posted on The Kitchen Table blog January 7, 2009)
It happened on Christmas day. A single mortar fired randomly into the Mosul Air Base killed combat trauma surgeon Major John Paul Pryor, MD, age 42. Dr. Pryor was serving with the Army’s 1st Medical Detachment, based in Fort Totten, New York. He served in 2006 [...]
(originally posted to The Kitchen Table blog December 13, 2008)
A study to be published in the January 2009 Journal of Hospital Infection, (Phin NF, Rylands AJ, Allan J, et al. Personal protective equipment in an influenza pandemic: a UK simulation exercise. J Hosp Infect 2008;71(1): 15-21) holds some surprising findings with major implications for Fire [...]