Hot, Hot, Hot!: Firefighter Rescue and Rehab

Objectives
* Review the causes of firefighter injuries and line of duty deaths including motor vehicle accidents, accident scenes, and heart attack.
* Review common fireground temperature extremes and the signs and symptoms associated with heat injury/illness.
* Discuss transport decisions in context of burn and multisystem trauma assessment and management.
* Discuss transport decisions in context of burn and multisystem trauma management.

Topic Highlights
This topic will cover the facts and figures associated with the primary causes of firefighter injury and Line of Duty Deaths (LODD). These causes will be discussed from both a prevention and reaction perspective and injury patterns to firefighters will be discussed from an assessment and management perspective.

Audience/Track
This class is for any EMS provider.

 

 

 
 

STUDENT REVIEWS


"Good presentation overall ..." November 2007 -- Colorado State EMS Conference, Keystone, Colorado

"...makes you feel very comfortable in class to answer any and all questions." May 2007 – SIREN Conference, Fort Worth, Texas