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Airbag related injuries
Air Bag–Related Injuries [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Air bag–related injuries. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;42:285-286.] The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently published the latest in a series of papers ...
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Animated rope knots
This is just a link to a very cool site that shows animations of how to tie specific rope knots. It covers many different types, from Rescue, to sailing. http://www.animatedknots.com/index.php ...
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Big Truck Extrication - Part 1: Anatamy 101
This is the first of a three part article on big truck extrication. *We are going to first take a look at basic truck anatomy. In article two we will discuss ...
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Big Truck Extrication - Part 2: Assessment and Stabilization
Sometimes I wonder if rescuers realize just how many trucks are actually on our highways traveling each and everyday. My wife and I took a trip out west last Spring to ...
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Big Truck Extrication - Part 3: The Extrication
In the last two articles we have looked at how trucks are constructed, the types of trailers they may be pulling, the tremendous weights that may be involved, the hazards that ...
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Can You Do, What You Say, You Can Do?
This thought provoking article will probably stir some feelings, perhaps even rub some the wrong way, and maybe even get a few, “he hit that nail on the head.” Especially when ...
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Extrication at a Glance: Rollovers
In order to cover all the details involved in any specific type of extrication, one must first realize it would take more than a single article, perhaps a chapter would be ...
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Extrication for the EMT?
I hope everyone’s summer went well. You know we tend to do less training in the summer, due to the heat, vacations and other family things. Now that fall and winter ...
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Extrication Plates
Kyle Fire Department has been running some intense pin jobs on IH35. Every once and a while we run into the new metal on small vehicles and the light weight construction ...
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Extrication Tranining
New vehicle construction. The object of today"s vehicle construction is passenger protection. The different materials used in the frame construction are depicted in the different colors. Rea depicts ultra-high- strength steel. ...