You – probably have a few questions: Q: is that it?yes it is. Studies have shown that rapid CPR is essential to improving survive ability of cardiac events. get the blood flowing again as fast as you can. Q: what about breaths?not that important. there is still quite a bit
This article from 2016 has been floating through my facebook feed as of late. it offers Good insight on when an incident commander should delegate task control to someone else. for those not in a command position, the article also offers suggestions on how to size up and evaluate car
I found this image of the skeleton online somewhere and thought it was genius.
A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal looked at over 7000 unwitnessed out of hospital Cardiac Arrests in Toronto. For those living below the third floor, the overall survival rate was 4.2% It was 2.6% if you lived above this level. Above the 25th floor there were no
I found this Massive guide to tuning the Halligan Tool via twitter today.take a look – lots of good stuff.http://firebytrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2-Halligan-Tuning-PDF-zip.pdf
The Palm beach fire Department offered this training session on the use of TIC’s in fire. The key Takeaway is that images on the tic in fire environments looks different then stuff in normal day to day environments, because objects, and people especially go from being the warmest thing in
I found this on Facebook. its a pretty slick way to accomplish a technical rescue with equipment normally found on a standard engine. Ill note that in this case the dummy is pretty sloppily attached to the backboard – the straps should be laied out in an X formation over
One thing many responders don’t get is an idea of what abnormal sounds like. When practicing in class, the people you practice on are all presumably normal, so you are just described Abnormal – but without the benefit of hearing it. These videos are recordings taken through a stethoscope and
A variation of the Halligan bar for automotive use is the “Highway Halligan” which replaces the fork with a metal cutter, allowing it to be used like a giant can opener. The Cutter end works well cutting out windshields on cars – punch some starter holes with the spike, and