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FireRehab
Communications September 2007 Volume 5 |
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Fireground Medical Operations |
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Barriers to an Effective Rehab Sector |
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Part 1 By David Jaslow |
Part 2 By Scott Bahner and David Jaslow |
Firefighter rehabilitation is commonly mistaken as an operations function owned by the EMS sector. However, it's actually a logistics function. 
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In many departments rehabilitation and medical monitoring functions at "working" emergency incidents is deployed late, inadequately or not at all.
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The Rehab Sector |
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Building Up the Rehab Community |
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By Perry Denehy, FireRehab Columnist |
| For this month's article, I have brought together a list of department rehab units. I enjoyed looking at these various websites — what an impressive array of equipment they highlight. But what works in one department isn't always the case in another, which is why you can personalize your system to what works best for you.
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Rehab and Revitalize |
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Taking the Heat out of Summer '08 |
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By James Augustine, FireRehab Columnist |
| Heat can kill across the spectrum of ages and physical conditions.
Before we close the book on the very hot summer that we have endured in 2007, we should update our plans for managing heat-related issues for the fire service for 2008.
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FireRehab Tip |
Use cool vests in hot weather |
| By Frank W. Curtis Jr., FF/Medic, Northside (N.Y.) Fire District |
| During a fire, we make our firefighters don a "Cool Vest," which has inserts that are kept in sub-zero freezers. We also employ the use of our town's ambulance and have firefighters sit in the patient compartment ... Full Tip |
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