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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.
Prompt and intensive emergency
care administered at the scene of a
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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
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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.”
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Lignite is a major energy raw
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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
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use less energetic but more sel«
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large particles.” 1^
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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
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character” until recently, but k
future in the army has not beenik
cided as yet.”
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