The Firefighters Support Foundation’s (FSF) newest training program is now available. Essential Ladder Skills delves into the essentials of ladder preparation, approach, placement, raising, climbing, and more. It talks about when to roll and when rolling is just laziness. The right and wrong way to do each skill is shown,
Author: PeterZ
AI Media put out this video of Usefull signs for dealing with Deaf Patients. this could come in Handy.
NFPA 1001 requires firefighters to be able to tie each of these seven knots operating on a simulated fire ground. These are also really handy knots to know, and have been the subject of the last several Knotty Tuesdays. I personally use the weekly post to review the knots, and
The New England Journal Of Medicne presents the case of a DNR in the form of a tattoo on a patients chest, and explores the legal and ethical issues around this. (full article here) In my service, we only accept signed original orders – verbal, or copies are not sufficient
Oops – day late with this one.
One of the things that you learn while performing your secondary assessment is to look for Paradoxical movement of the chest. Usually the class descriptions of this are that it just looks wrong. The chest moves down when breathing in rather then expanding. yep. its weird.