Heart to Heart: Strategizing an evidence-based approach to reduce cardiac disease and death in the fire service

 描述（由申请人提供）：PAR-14-246组织：国家消防队员基金会（NFFF）主要研究员：Denise Smith，博士项目名称：心连心：制定以证据为基础的方法，以减少心脏病和死亡的消防服务国家消防队员基金会（NFFF）寻求赞助一个2-为期一天的会议，涉及约50名主要消防服务选区组织，研究人员和职业医学专家的代表，制定战略计划，以解决消防和紧急医疗服务（EMS）人员中的心脏病和死亡问题。五年来，NFFF一直支持调查消防员心脏健康的研究-直接通过财政支持，并通过我们的培训提供计划传播心脏护理建议。我们与包括约翰霍普金斯大学在内的领先学术研究机构合作，调查心脏病与消防的关系。我们相信，我们正处于一个时刻，现在是时候告诉消防部门我们对消防和心脏病的绝对了解，以减少与职责有关的心脏事件的破坏性问题。本次会议将介绍有关心血管疾病发展的循证研究以及减少疾病进展的医疗和生活方式策略。它还将提供一个机会，讨论国家消防服务组织，消防部门，个人消防员，健康和安全官员以及医疗保健提供者（包括职业医学和初级保健医生）可以并且应该在支持变化方面发挥什么作用，这些变化将导致疾病负担减少，并允许更长和更健康的消防员职业生涯。这次会议，仿照共识过程证明成功的早期职业健康项目，旨在确定点，干预可能证明是富有成效的，并设计具体的项目，使证据知情的资源承担有效的，有效的，具有成本效益的方式，特别适合消防和EMS人群和设置。本次会议将于2015年12月在巴尔的摩马里兰州地区举行，为期一天的结构化演讲将涵盖新的研究成果和最先进的知识，第二天将致力于产生广泛的共识方法，以医学评估，身体健康和心血管疾病相关的行为健康领域。第2天制定的想法/方法将建立在第1天提出的科学证据、最佳证据共识和最佳实践的基础上，并将根据公认的需要制定反映最适合消防服务计划和实践的方法。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): PAR-14-246 Organization: National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) Principal Investigator: Denise Smith, PhD Project title: Heart to Heart: Strategizing an evidence-based approach to decrease cardiac disease and deaths in the fire service The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) seeks to sponsor a 2-day conference involving approximately 50 representatives of major fire service constituency organizations, researchers, and occupational medicine experts to develop a strategic plan to address issues of cardiac disease and death among fire and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel. The NFFF has supported research investigating firefighter cardiac health for five years-directly through financial support, and the dissemination of heart care advice through our training delivery programs. We have worked with leading academic research institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, to investigate the nexus of heart disease and firefighting. We are confident that we are at a point where it is time to inform the fire service o what we absolutely know about firefighting and heart disease in order to decrease the devastating problem of duty-related cardiac events. This conference will present evidenced-based research regarding the development of cardiovascular disease and medical and life-style strategies to reduce disease progression. It will also present the opportunity to open a discussion of what the roles for national fire service organizations, fire departments, individual firefighters, health and safety officers, and health care providers (including occupational medicine and primary care physicians) can and should be in supporting changes that will lead to decreased disease burden and allow for longer and healthier firefighter careers. This conference, modeled after the consensus process proven successful in earlier occupational health projects, seeks to identify points where intervention may prove productive and design specific projects to bring evidence-informed resources to bear in effective, efficacious, and cost-efficient fashions specifically suited to fire and EMS populations and settings. Proposed for December 2015 in the Baltimore Maryland area, this conference will feature one day of structured presentations covering new research findings and state of the art knowledge, and a second day devoted to the generation of a broad consensus approach to the areas of medical evaluation, physical fitness, and behavioral health related to cardiovascular disease. The ideas/approaches developed on Day 2 will build on the scientific evidence, consensus on best evidence, and best practices presented on Day 1, and will be developed based on a recognized need to establish approaches reflecting the best fit for these with respect to fire service programs and practices.