A 24-year-old male firefighter fell while carrying a victim away from a fire. He complained of neck pain. In the emergency room a lateral cervical spine film (fig. 1 A) showed a large ossific fragment slightly posterior and inferior to the posterior arch of the atlas . There was also interruption of one of the posterior hemiarches. The differential diagnosis was a posterior arch fracture, a mal...

Fighting fires and fatigue [2] This PhD began at the Bushfire CRC and was completed in 2016. Firefighters were recruited from across Australia to help gather important data on sleep behaviour during multi-day deployments. The results are important in managing firefighter health and safety, with this research contributing some of the first data about the sleep quantity and quality that firefight...