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Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1977 EXTENDED By popular demand, the free head and shoulders portrait sitting offer has been extended through November. If you didn’t receive your coupon over the summer, call for details. UNIVERSITY STUDIO 115 COLLEGE MAIN 846-8019 BHOGJTT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 8RM. RUDDER AUDITORIUM, $1 ' DOLLARS AFISTFULLOF PLAY MISTY FOR ME SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 8RM. RUDDER AUDITORIUM, $1 ■MAGNUM FORCE ■ WHERE EAGLES DARE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2RM. RUDDER THEATER, $1 KELLY’S HEROES Emergency medical services improved By MAUREEN BUCEK In recent years, local govern ments, community groups and edu cation systems have become active in upgrading emergency medical services and facilities in the Bryan- College Station area. Texas A&M University offers a health education course to train emergency medical technicians (EMTs). With an outline from the Texas Department of Health Re sources, the course requires 80 hours of classroom training, 40 hours of hospital training and five ambulance runs with the Houston Fire Department, working with Houston EMTs and paramedics. Students do research papers, hear lectures from physicians, nurses, and other medical specialists. An eight hour course at the fire man’s training school to work with extracation of victims from a burn ing building and other forms of light rescue is also required. Bandaging and splinting tech niques, work with mechanical breathing aids (oxygen bags and masks, suction units, airways), tak ing and monitoring vital signs, trans porting victims, and sometimes even help with suturing of victims in emergency room situations are learned. The course is limited to 30 appli cants who are selected according to need. “In a job with emergency needs, parks and recreation majors for instance, those working with a rescue squad, or pre-med people— they’re taken first, said Laura Kitzmiller, director of emergency care programs through the Health and Physical Education Depart ment. Kitzmiller also teaches CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation), a life sustaining measure combining heart massage and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to sustain circulation of oxygenated blood until advanced therapy can can be given. Kitzmiller taught the technique to nurses at St. Joseph and Bryan hospitals and the staff at Beutel Health Center. Members of the Woman’s Club of Bryan and the College Station Community Education group com pleted the six hours of CPR training and 12 more hours to qualify as in structors. In September the Woman’s Club began a series of CPR courses open to the public. Sixteen members are certified as instructors by the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross. Offering two daytime classes and one night class each month, they have certified more than 100 people. To be certified, the student must pass a written test and perform one man and two man CPR on special mannequins which give a print-out to show if pressure is properly applied to the heart and an adequate volume of air blown into the lungs. Certification lasts for only one year because “the procedure changes as they make new discoveries and, quite frankly, people forget’ Whit ing said. The Woman’s Club wants to teach CPR to one out of four people in the community. “I might be the next one to keel over; I’d want someone there who knows what to do. For all I know about CPR, it won t do me any good then, Whiting said. 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LOUPOT’S BOOKSTORE "Your Calculator Headquarters' Northofit*’ A« mass From The Post Offic e heart attack and en route to the hos pital, could save 100,000 lives a year according to the American Heart Association. In 1974 the National Research Council found that more than one third of accident fatalities in the United States occur at the scene or within minutes after arrival in the emergency room. Dr. Henry C. Huntley of the U. S. Public Health Services said, “the care provided during the first hour “The care provided during the first hour after onset of a medical emergency is probably more important than the entire episode/' after onset of a medical emergency is probably more important than the entire subsequent episode. Ambulance attendants are usually the first to arrive at an emergency scene. For the city of College Sta tion, Texas A&M University, and south Brazos County, ambulance service is provided by the College Station Fire Department. The am bulance service is certified by the state and listed in the state registry. It is required to carry specific equipment ranging from traction splints, oxygen tanks, and poison kits to pillows and safety pins. The Fire Department has 24 EMTs and assigns a minimum of two to each vehicle. There are two ambulances now and a third is ex pected in January. “Anytime an ambulance makes a run, emergency medical techniques are used, — whether it be splinting fractures, taking vital signs, or rec ognizing diabetes or heart attacks, said Bill Schaer, ambulance super visor. “We spend time at the scene try ing to stabilize the victim, stopping severe bleeding or whatever the problem may be. That s the whole idea of this EMS program: stabilize first, then transport. People always seem to wonder Why are you still here?’’ Schaer said. After working with the victim and before leaving the scene, attendants call the hospital emergency room and tell them the extent of the in juries and estimated time of arrival. “The whole idea of ‘run out, throw them in the back and race off” doesn’t apply anymore,” he em phasized. The Mid-Tex Ambulance Service is a private enterprise serving Bryan and Brazos County. It operates four ambulances, with a fifth vehicle on the way. The new ambulance will be able to transport six stretcher victims. Two attendants are on duty at all times, at least one of which is an EMT. The service is certified by the state and carries the required equipment. Brazos was one of seven sur rounding counties whose services were upgraded in the last three years. With federal funds of nearly $280,000 from the Department of H ealth, Education and Welfare matched by local funds, these coun ties entered a five-year program to improve emergency medical care. The EMS program was coordi nated through the Brazos Valley Development Council. During the first three years; hospitals upgraded their emergency room equipment and ambulance attendants trained as Emergency Care Attendants and EMTs. At least one hospital in each county has a radio in the emergency D room to communicate with lances. Seven emergency vehitl were bought and distributed Brazos, Bryan and Madison an ties. Three EMT schools were' fered in Brazos County and 65oi people were trained. The steps this basic life support phasi completed in three years, ending June. EMS program director El Well, D Nelson said the goals of this pis ^qw abot were to make it possible foraviclj jure, it’s to receive basic first aid andprimj eai n at w emergency care within 15 mini ^wboys and be taken to a well-equippf 30arc l. If emergency aid cemter. patching The program did not contiu p a llas-De into the next phase, advanced! psycholog: support. This part involvesij the latter, vanced EMTs or paramedics, lli J can ju turn calls for more equipmenli the Cowl) ambulances and a doctor in thek j e 0 n Sui pital emergency room 24 hours leaders wi day. “Being rural and theecononi upthenn of it (advanced life support) kept: Let’s hr from going forward. It’s very expa a very stn sive and tax dollars would have I That is a support it,” Nelson said. Tliej if they w: must be a certain volume of ato they mus dents and emergency situations! chance an keep the training current and mi to their the investment worthwhile, Nekr One D said. ”1 think it’s coming,"sli re ady sug added. sMpBMrom Lani and Local research proje seeks more coal uses More uses for coal may result from the research of Texas A&M University chemists who are looking at new ways to break up the coal molecule. “Some of these coal-derived products, such as methane, butane and propane can be used as heating and cooking fuels, while other or ganic chemicals, presently obtained from petroleum, could also be re moved from coal, explained Dr. C.S. Giam, head of the project being funded by the Energy Re search and Development Adminis tration (ERDA). “Some of these chemicals are ultimately used to prepare plastics, medicines and a variety of modern products.” AGGIES! M Douglas Lignite is a major energy raw terial in Texas. More than 100 lion tons have been mapped, eqi alent to 277 billion barrels of More than 200 million tons of have been discovered in Bryan-College Station area. The fundamental molecularsti ture of coal still remains to be pletely explained. It is believed be a complex, high moleciil weight polymer of irregular and definite structure. “We want to use a moresel process to cleave the coal into small, useful moleciil chunks,” Giam said. “Presenl through thermal degradation, can be converted to a gas that stitutes for natural gas, or to resembling gasoline by a variety liquification techniques. “However, this is too drastit process to get at the laryi fragments such as butane orba zene, he added. “We propose use less energetic but more sel« tive processes to produce did large particles.” 1^ Giam says the project’s objedi is efficient and evironmentally i offers Student ID Discounts! ceptable use of coals, particulai Texas lignite, as a source of liqi and gaseous fuels and organic ck icals. ” A drive hom 15% off of $ 50 00 or more 10% off of under $ 50 00 Dav field 0 CASH PURCHASE ONLY We reserve the right to regulate the use of this privilege. 212 N. MAIN 822-3119 DOWNTOWN BRYAN best forgothwOl ^rocluateA cm^LOscir lncf As a woman Air Force ROTC student, you compete for your commission on the same footing as the men in your class. And later on you wear the same insignia. There are two-year, three-year, and four-year scholarship pro grams available to help you get there.. If you enroll in the four- year Air Force ROTC program you also qualify to compete for a scholarship for the remaining two or three years as a cadet. Tuition is covered, fees are paid, textbook costs reimbursed . . . plus $100 a month, tax free. ~ ^etteuvty to « ^rectt^XOcix) oj RICHMOND, England-C^ John Oliver, a techniciap attack to the Royal Armored Corps trail ing regiment, had one too manyati party recently and says hecaii really remember what happew after he left. Maybe it’s a good thing. According to testimony head is court Tuesday, here’s whatk would have remembered: He decided to take a joy rideal the party and chose as his vehiclei 60-ton tank. The court heard that Oliver tk the tank from a hangar at Cattend that co more Garrison and drove it straigl through the hangar doors. It fe Giants tened signs, tore up fences andtk Gouis stroyed two miles of roadway Finally the tank veered aroai< toward the highway with militar police cars following it. “The people in pursuit were oi liged, in the interests of their o« safety, to leave their vehicles follow on foot,” the prosecuting) torney said. Oliver, 25, who said the entirei cident was “vague,” pleaded / to nine charges arising from the)' ride: assault, causing criminal dac age, driving without a license» insurance, dangerous driving, dd ing with excess alcohol and taking tank without the owner’s consed He was fined $2,000. Capt. Roger Jagger, Olivei superior, told the court the del? dant had been “of good milig character” until recently, but k future in the army has not beenik cided as yet.” COUPON BURRITO BLOW OUT 2 meat — 2 bean — 2 combination 6 BURRITOS q q (One Coupon Per Customer) tP M i/ J/ (OFFER EXPIRES SAT., NOV. 5,1977) plustax ‘We’ll be open til 3 a.m. after yell practice. See you then!” 614 VILLA MARIA BRYAN. TEXAS EAST The D: deuce h cem, re Sunday Opening season opened Dalla over th they m Texas S The 37-0 tri So h Prepan ‘Nat Tom L: cern. \ the chs “I kr Washi (which son) ca done t) “VV1 Louis Doug ] very h will he But on the / V