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TAMU paramedic allowed to start IV By STEVE THOMAS Staff Writer The Texas A&M Emergency Medical Services marked an impor tant milestone Tuesday when para medic Louis Gonzales was ordered by St. Joseph Hospital to perform an advanced technique on a patient at Texas A&M. Terry Dunlop, a 49-year-old fire school participant from Sinton, Texas, collapsed Tuesday morning in 224 Memorial Student Center. David Phillips, Texas A&M EMS chief and driver-on-duty at the time, said Dunlop’s heart was struggling, and after a few minutes St. Joseph’s emergency room radioed orders for an intravenous fluid line. “Before now it was an act of Con gress to get advanced orders from St. Joe’s,” Phillips said. “We were afraid his veins were going to collapse because of the low blood pressure and the weak heart output,” he said. “This guy (Dunlop) was an emergency patient who defi nitely needed advanced care, but he was not going to die the next minute. That’s what’s so significant. He was not that bad and we still got orders (for the IV).” Intravenous fluid lines are consid ered to be an advanced life support measure in emergency medicine. The Texas A&M EMS department has not received orders for an IV in over a year, and before that it had been nearly two years. Yet the pro gram has had the state-required equipment and personnel for ad vanced life support since its incep tion in 1979. Phillips said that in other cities where advanced life support is used routinely, a patient in a situation similar to Dunlop’s would have auto matically received an IV. Bryan’s Fire department is not equipped or staffed for advanced life support, but College Station’s is, and the city council recently approved the initia tion of a paramedic (advanced life support) program. Phillips said he feels Bryan-Col- lege Station is slowly but definitely moving toward full acceptance of emergency medical advanced life support, and Dunlop’s IV may be the beginning of a trend toward St. Joseph’s acceptance of this advanced level. He said St. Joseph’s past attitude about advanced life support resem bled reluctance, whereas this time the emergency room people were very cooperative and supportive. Texas official resigns to White United Press International AUSTIN — Secretary of State John Fainter Tuesday submitted his resignation to Gov. Mark White, say ing he intends to return to a private law practice. Fainter’s resignation, which has been rumored for months, was con firmed by Dwayne Holman, who is in charge of White’s appointments. Holman said Fainter informed White of his decision Tuesday af ternoon but told the governor seve ral months ago of his intentions. White did not indicate whom he will appoint to replace Fainter, although Sarah Weddington has been men tioned as the most likely prospect. Weddington, who is currently in charge of Texas’ Office of State and Federal Relations in Washington, D.C, has served as an advisor to President Jimmy Carter and a Texas legislator. She also was lead counsel in the historic Roe vs. Wade case, which re sulted in the legalization of abortion. Holman indicated Weddington is being considered for the job, al though he said White has not made a final decision, and there are also sev eral other candidates being consid ered. Fainter was not dissatisfied with his job, Holman said, but wanted to take advantage of several business opportunities. Commandos kill plane hijackers United Press International WILLEMSTAD, Curacao — Ven ezuelan commandos coached by a crack U.S. anti-terrorist team sent in by President Reagan stormed a hi jacked jet before dawn Tuesday, killed two air pirates at point-blank range and rescued 79 hostages. Terrified hostages, including four Americans, fled through a rear door of the Venezuelan Aeropostal DC-9 and hurled themselves onto the tar mac after the hijackers set fire to gasoline-soaked newspapers inside the plane. As the hostages were escaping, marksmen outside the plane fired and wounded both hijackers, Mar lene Pardo, 42, one of seven hos tages left inside the plane, told United Press International. She said two Venezuelan com mandos then rushed into the plane and finished off the two wounded air pirates — shooting one at point- blank range as he lay bleeding in the aisle, and the other as he was slumped in the galley. None of the 74 passengers or five crew members aboard the airliner was wounded in the 2:10 a.m. EDT assault that ended a 37-hour odyssey to four Caribbean islands off the northern coast of South America — the Venezuelan island of Margarita, Trinidad, Aruba and Curacao. The hijackers, identified as Do minique Hilertant and Segundo Fe lix Castillo, had threatened to blow up the plane unless they were given $>5 million and a helicopter. Hilertant, a former Haitian cap tain sentenced to death for a coup attempt against the late President- for-life Francois “Papa Doc” Duva- lier in the 1960s, was armed with a pistol. Castillo, a Dominican, had a starter’s pistol. Authorities said there was no indication they had a bomb. Panic broke out on the Venezue lan DC-9 after sharpshooters shot out the tires of the jetliner to prevent it from taking off for an undisclosed destination. Pardo told UPI that Castillo poured gasoline on a stack of news papers in the aisle and set fire to it, setting off a stampede for the rear door and two emergency exits in the middle of the plane. “We grabbed our children and ran for the back door,” said Nancy Perret-Gentil of Manhattan, Kan., one of four Americans aboard. “Everyone was panicky. We didn’t see the part where the men were shot. We were running from the air plane to get away from the bomb they were going to explode. 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