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Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work
Heart transplantation patients generally demonstrate exercise capacities that are below the minimal standards for firefighting. Therefore, it is unlikely that heart transplantation patients will receive medical and/or employer clearance for active duty. We report a case of a firefighter who sought t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30889885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8030378 |
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author | Warburton, Darren E. R. Taylor, Arlana Jamnik, Veronica K. Gledhill, Norman Bredin, Shannon S. D. |
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description | Heart transplantation patients generally demonstrate exercise capacities that are below the minimal standards for firefighting. Therefore, it is unlikely that heart transplantation patients will receive medical and/or employer clearance for active duty. We report a case of a firefighter who sought to return to full-time active duty following heart transplantation. We examined his physiological readiness to return to work during occupation-specific testing. Remarkably, the patient was able to meet the minimal requirements for full active firefighting. This finding provides direct evidence to support the potential of transplant patients returning to active duty in physiologically demanding occupations. |
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spelling | pubmed-64631912019-04-19 Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work Warburton, Darren E. R. Taylor, Arlana Jamnik, Veronica K. Gledhill, Norman Bredin, Shannon S. D. J Clin Med Case Report Heart transplantation patients generally demonstrate exercise capacities that are below the minimal standards for firefighting. Therefore, it is unlikely that heart transplantation patients will receive medical and/or employer clearance for active duty. We report a case of a firefighter who sought to return to full-time active duty following heart transplantation. We examined his physiological readiness to return to work during occupation-specific testing. Remarkably, the patient was able to meet the minimal requirements for full active firefighting. This finding provides direct evidence to support the potential of transplant patients returning to active duty in physiologically demanding occupations. MDPI 2019-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6463191/ /pubmed/30889885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8030378 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Warburton, Darren E. R. Taylor, Arlana Jamnik, Veronica K. Gledhill, Norman Bredin, Shannon S. D. Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work |
title | Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work |
title_full | Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work |
title_fullStr | Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work |
title_full_unstemmed | Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work |
title_short | Readiness for Firefighting: A Heart Transplant Patient’s Quest to Return to Work |
title_sort | readiness for firefighting: a heart transplant patient’s quest to return to work |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30889885 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8030378 |
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