#paramedic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #paramedic, aggregated by home.social.
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Taxi Drivers Rarely Die Of Alzheimer’s – How Complex Mental Maps And Spatial Reasoning Protect Your Brain [why knowing your way around might help you stay sharp]
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https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-082194 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.070039597 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-018-0031-x <-- shared paper
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https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/taxis-and-private-hire/licensing/learn-the-knowledge-of-london <-- details of @Transport for London’s ‘The Knowledge’ details
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https://youtu.be/u7gp8KBP7ak?si=X1xXcysZF2LayFkx <-- shared video, ‘The People Who Have To Remember 25,000 Streets | The [London] Knowledge - The World's Toughest Taxi Test’
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H/T @ Jennifer Psillas, GISP | GIS Project Manager at City of Tucson Parks and Recreation
“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S…
Of the 9 million death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022 that researchers examined, taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer’s disease out of 443 occupations. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall.
This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs. The researchers concluded that the key to reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s was not driving itself but continuous real-time navigation: the constant work of locating yourself in space, tracking a destination and updating a mental map as conditions change. Drivers whose jobs relied on fixed or predetermined routes, like bus drivers and aircraft pilots, didn’t seem to experience a similar advantage.
Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
In one landmark 2000 study [link above], neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. Their findings provided the first evidence via structural imaging that regions of the adult brain can measurably change under sustained navigational demand. To earn a license, London cabbies must memorize more than 25,000 streets within a 6-mile radius of Charing Cross, a challenge known as “The Knowledge” that takes three to four years…”
#spatialnavigation #orientation #mental #acuity #taxi #ambulance #paramedic #TheKnowledge #London #UK #Alzheimer #mapping #mentalmaps #spatialmapping #navigation #spatialreasoning #brain #hippocampus #brainhealth #death #mortality #disease #publichealth #scans #occupation #job -
Iran Conflict: Food Sector’s 8 Biggest Casualties
Amid …
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #1940sstyle #americanculture #Americanflag #ArmedForces #army #ArmySoldier #breakingnews #carrying #casualty #dead #deadbody #Death #dusk #flag #FourthofJuly #friendship #heroes #honor #horizontal #infantry #Iran #men #Military #nature #night #outdoors #paramedic #patriotism #people #respect #rifle #sand #storm #threepeople #USmilitary #usveteran'sday #USA #veteran #War #wound
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Code 3 – Watch Rainn Wilson, Lil Rel Howery, and Aimee Carrero in the trailer for the new paramedic action dramedy https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/08/06/code-3-watch-rainn-wilson-lil-rel-howery-and-aimee-carrero-in-the-trailer-for-the-new-paramedic-action-dramedy/
#Code3 #RainnWilson #LilRelHowery #AimeeCarrero #film #paramedic
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#FuneralFactFriday: The Bathroom Bermuda Triangle, aka the Triangle of Doom or the Triangle of Death 🚽 🛁
This is a phenomenon observed by EMTs, paramedics, and mortuary removal drivers in which a person (living or dead) manages to slip into the area between the toilet, bathtub, and wall while having a medical crisis.
People end up dying on or next to toilets due to a variety of reasons. They might feel that something is “off,” and head to the bathroom to see if their morning constitutional makes them feel better. Sometimes it’s a heart attack, aneurysm, or aortic dissection, often brought about by straining too hard or inadvertently using the Valsalva maneuver. Victims can trigger vasovagal syncope and pass out from the sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure. If they bonk their head or get wedged in an unnatural way, they can expire from a head injury or positional asphyxia. Others are lost to overdose or choking on vomit.
Due to the natural size constraints of most bathrooms, it’s extraordinarily difficult to extract an uncooperative person once they become wedged in that spot. To make matters worse, these situations usually involve blood or other body fluids. Medical situations like this often turn fatal since victims in distress aren’t usually discovered quickly enough, plus lifesaving measures are difficult to render if the person is tightly wedged or worse, laying unconscious in a way that blocks the bathroom door from opening.
Do your local medical and funeral professionals a favor: if you feel faint while on the throne, try and fall *away* from the Triangle.
#HisAndHearsePress #ToiletTime #PottyTalk #BermudaTriangle #BathroomBermudaTriangle #TriangleOfDeath #TriangleOfDoom #ToiletsWithThreateningAuras #Death #EMS #Paramedic #FirstCall #BathroomDesign
