Comments on: Cardiac Risks of Volunteer FF's Studied http://firegeezer.com/2009/01/06/cardiac-risks-of-volunteer-ffs-studied/ The Fire/EMS Digital Dayroom Wed, 23 May 2012 02:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Glenn Gaines http://firegeezer.com/2009/01/06/cardiac-risks-of-volunteer-ffs-studied/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 Glenn Gaines Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:02:31 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=5825#comment-1720 I work with the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program in Washington D. C. One of the services we provide the American fire service includes offering firefighters safety and research grants to academic institutions who are interested in researching how and why firefighters are injured, killed or experience chronic illness in abnormal numbers as compared to the national average. We also fund some research into new technology and its practical use in daily fire operations. One interesting (preliminary) fact surfaced recently as a result of comprehensive medical evaluations of firefighters who perform real time combat firefighting tasks (advancing hose lines into a structure fire and suppressing the fire). Our grantee found that from blood draws of firefighters who had exited the structure immediately after suppressing the fire had experienced significant blood coagulation. Increases in coagulation could lead to enhancing the danger of heart attack. This of course may lead to a suggestion (that with the consultation of a physician) taking a baby aspirin a day may not be a bad idea (as we have heard in the recent past from medical professionals). All of this is preliminary of course, but, none the less interesting. We will release the final reports on this study in the fall of this year, and submit the findings to CDC for their thoughts on the matter. I work with the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program in Washington D. C. One of the services we provide the American fire service includes offering firefighters safety and research grants to academic institutions who are interested in researching how and why firefighters are injured, killed or experience chronic illness in abnormal numbers as compared to the national average. We also fund some research into new technology and its practical use in daily fire operations.

One interesting (preliminary) fact surfaced recently as a result of comprehensive medical evaluations of firefighters who perform real time combat firefighting tasks (advancing hose lines into a structure fire and suppressing the fire). Our grantee found that from blood draws of firefighters who had exited the structure immediately after suppressing the fire had experienced significant blood coagulation. Increases in coagulation could lead to enhancing the danger of heart attack. This of course may lead to a suggestion (that with the consultation of a physician) taking a baby aspirin a day may not be a bad idea (as we have heard in the recent past from medical professionals). All of this is preliminary of course, but, none the less interesting. We will release the final reports on this study in the fall of this year, and submit the findings to CDC for their thoughts on the matter.

]]> By: Glenn Gaines http://firegeezer.com/2009/01/06/cardiac-risks-of-volunteer-ffs-studied/comment-page-1/#comment-13435 Glenn Gaines Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:02:00 +0000 http://www.firegeezer.com/?p=5825#comment-13435 I work with the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program in Washington D. C. One of the services we provide the American fire service includes offering firefighters safety and research grants to academic institutions who are interested in researching how and why firefighters are injured, killed or experience chronic illness in abnormal numbers as compared to the national average. We also fund some research into new technology and its practical use in daily fire operations. One interesting (preliminary) fact surfaced recently as a result of comprehensive medical evaluations of firefighters who perform real time combat firefighting tasks (advancing hose lines into a structure fire and suppressing the fire). Our grantee found that from blood draws of firefighters who had exited the structure immediately after suppressing the fire had experienced significant blood coagulation. Increases in coagulation could lead to enhancing the danger of heart attack. This of course may lead to a suggestion (that with the consultation of a physician) taking a baby aspirin a day may not be a bad idea (as we have heard in the recent past from medical professionals). All of this is preliminary of course, but, none the less interesting. We will release the final reports on this study in the fall of this year, and submit the findings to CDC for their thoughts on the matter. I work with the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program in Washington D. C. One of the services we provide the American fire service includes offering firefighters safety and research grants to academic institutions who are interested in researching how and why firefighters are injured, killed or experience chronic illness in abnormal numbers as compared to the national average. We also fund some research into new technology and its practical use in daily fire operations.

One interesting (preliminary) fact surfaced recently as a result of comprehensive medical evaluations of firefighters who perform real time combat firefighting tasks (advancing hose lines into a structure fire and suppressing the fire). Our grantee found that from blood draws of firefighters who had exited the structure immediately after suppressing the fire had experienced significant blood coagulation. Increases in coagulation could lead to enhancing the danger of heart attack. This of course may lead to a suggestion (that with the consultation of a physician) taking a baby aspirin a day may not be a bad idea (as we have heard in the recent past from medical professionals). All of this is preliminary of course, but, none the less interesting. We will release the final reports on this study in the fall of this year, and submit the findings to CDC for their thoughts on the matter.

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