Silent Death Research Paper

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Silent Death: Fatalities in the Line of Duty West Georgia Technical College Being a firefighter is not an easy job. Many people think of this profession as a public service and not necessarily as a career choice. It takes an extremely brave, systematic, conditioned, and most importantly, devoted person to do what these men and woman do on a daily basis. Firefighters face many dangers each day as they walk into the fire station. Some of these dangers are apparent such as death from fire, smoke inhalation, etc. Injuries in the line of duty occur almost every day in their world. However, sometimes the dangers are not able to be seen by others. Fire service workers work for long periods of time under extremely harsh conditions. The normal person would not be able to spend hours in a burning building in which they could not see in front of their face, unknowing…show more content…
This pretty much means he had plaque build-up in the heart veins and arteries. This death occurred after responding to multiple back-to-back emergency calls. He was physically fit, passed all training and conditioning classes, and exercised regularly. In another case, a 45-year old career fire fighter/paramedic died from ‘cardiac tamponade due to aortic dissection due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease. In easier terms, high blood pressure caused fluid (blood) to accumulate in the sac that encloses the heart. This was enabled by a tear in the wall of the aorta. Also physically fit, passed all training and conditioning classes, and exercised regularly. This fatality also followed responding to multiple emergency calls. Both men died from heart problems that were pushed past the point of recovery by the immense amount of stress caused by their job. Fire fighters are physically active and have physical examinations annually. These examinations may not always find something wrong when there really
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