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Firefighter Fatalities: Improving Performance and Preventing Injuries and Fatalities

Author: Denise Smith
Date Published: May 2011
Publisher: Current Sports Medicine Reports
Keywords: medical fitness, injury risk, Heart Diseasen

Comparison of Cardiocirculatory and Thermal Strain of Male Firefighters During Fire Suppression to Exercise Stress Test and Aerobic Exercise Testing

Author: Peter Angerer, Silke Kadlez-Gebhardt, Michael Delius, Petru Raluca, Dennis Nowak
Date Published: December 1 2008
Publisher: American Journal of Cardiology
Keywords: Stress Testing, Heart Stress, Cardiac Stress Testsn

Medical Fitness Evaluation for respirator users: results of a national survey of private sector employers

Author: G. Syamlal, B. Doney, K.M. Bang, M. Greskevitch, D. Groce, S. Ganocy, W. Hoffman
Date Published: June 2007
Publisher: Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
Keywords: Medical Fitness Evaluationn

A Health Hazard Evaluation of Antimony Exposure in Firefighters

Author: Marie de Perio, Srinivas Durgam, Kathleen Caldwell, Judith Eisenberg
Date Published: January 2010
Publisher: Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
Keywords: Medical Fitness Evaluation, Health Hazard Evaluationn

Stress Testing in the Medical Evaluation for Hazardous Materials Duty: Results and Consequences in Three Groups of Candidates

Author: Lawrence Raymond, Thomas Barringer, Joseph Konen
Date Published: May 2005
Publisher: Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
Keywords: health hazard evaluation, Medical Evaluation, Stress Testingn

Standards of Medical Fitness

Author: Not Listed
Date Published: December 14, 2007
Publisher: Department of the Army
Keywords: medical fitness standards, Fitnessn

Measurement of Functional Capacity Requirements to Aid in Development of an Occupation-Specific Rehabilitation Training Program to Help Firefighters With Cardiac Disease Safely Return to Work

Author: Jenny Adams, Joanne Roberts, PhD, Kay Simms, MS, Dunlei Cheng, PhD, Julie Hartman, MS, Charles Bartl
Date Published: March 2009
Publisher: American Journal of Cardiology
Keywords: medical fitness, cardiovascular health, Medical Fitness Programn

Health surveillance for rural volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel.

Author: Gaetano DE, Ackerman S, Clark A, Hodge B, Hohensee T, May J, Whiteman W.
Date Published: February 2007
Publisher: New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health/HealthWorks
Keywords: volunteer firen

Mortality and life expectancy of professional fire fighters in Hamburg, Germany: a cohort study 1950 – 2000

Author: Norbert L Wagner, Jürgen Berger, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Peter Koch, Anja Köchel, Michel Peschke and
Date Published: October 4 2006
Publisher: Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006
Keywords: Western Australia mortality study, firefightern

Effect of fire smoke on some biochemical parameters in firefighters of Saudi Arabia.

Author: Al-Malki AL, Rezq AM, Al-Saedy MH.
Date Published: December 2008
Publisher: Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdualziz University
Keywords: firen, toxic exposre