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Quality First” BBBBBOHBBS UnP£RG«OUNP Of’E.N Mon - Fri Undfrcrounp £nackS$ GAm£S O R E-N Mon — Fri 1‘ 30 am - 10-30 A** - *1-SOAM-|0:OOPM Shacks -1 loo am -iocoo^m Lunch (0 30 AM - l.-ASPM SciNPA Y Ouaijty First MSC OPAS MEMBERSHIP open to all FRESHMEN and TRANSFER students Applications available in 216 MSC Applications due Tuesday, Sept. 4 5 p.m. Interviews Wednesday, Sept. 5 For more information call MSC Programs Office 845-1515 Emergency care team teaches hundreds CPR By PATRICIA FLINT Staff Writer U.i Attention Friends, Independents, and Conservative Democrats, Help Phil Gramm “Pull the Wagon" s c,EN ATE- ' j ' bound FUND RAISING SUPPER Tuesday, September 4, 1984 7:30 p.m. Brazos Center For Tickets and Information, Call: 779-2218 3130 East 29th Street “The Grove” Phil Gramm/Reagan-Bush Headquarters / L V “If we could just keep the brain from dying before we can get there, we can keep a lot of people alive,” Jodith Allen, educational coordina tor of the Texas A&M Emergency Care Team, said Friday. “One of the objectives of our or ganization is to teach the general public about emergency medicine,” she said. “If someone collapses or goes into cardiac arrest and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) hasn’t been initiated, it’s usually too late — brain damage sets in.” The Texas A&M Emergency Care Team (TAMECT) offers CPR and basic first aid classes to the public. David Phillips, TAMECT ambu lance chief, said in four years he’s taught a couple hundred CPR and first aid classes. “The demand around here is tre mendous. I wish it was even bigger,” Phillips said. Phillips said it usually takes an in cident of some sort to get people concerned with knowing how to per form CPR and first aid. A problem with administering first aid, Phillips said, is the attitude that “if I at least do something it will help.” “No it won’t,” Phillips said. ‘Either you do it right or you do it "laoj to do is take the course and ig. w with tnat. We’ve gotten on the scene and they’re doing CPR that is ques tionable — at the least. “Very few people need their chests pushed on, but many people need tlieir air ways cleared — like the drunk person who is choking on his own vomit,” he said. For this reason both Phillips and Allen said that CPR is the most im portant of all emergency medicine taught to the public. Next, is basic first aid, such as administering bleeding control, splints, burns, sei zures, until an ambulance arrives. The class also teaches when to call, and when not to call an ambulance. “A lot of this stuff we can present in a minimum of time — not CPR — and we’ll do it for free just so we have a little less work to do,” Phillips said of the all-volunteer student or ganization. By correcting miscon ceptions “maybe we’ll have a few less pieces to pick up because we showed them the right way to do this," Phil lips said. “If someone wants us to teach a class all they have to do is get the people and the place. We provide the instructors, the equipment and M til M ' ! Allen said. JhL ^ We want to leach said. want to teach people, “That makes our job sob easier.” To make an apt: tar; Uni do all the paper work. All they have MSC AGGIE CINEMA and Movie Art & Memorabilia of Austin present FALL ’84 SALE OF MOVIE POSTERS & PHOTOS Monday - Friday, $ept. 3-7 9 a.in. - 5 p.m. 1st Floor of MSiC up a class, call 845-4321 at lo 'K.uiic. WASH Dr. Cl wuL lAMiidministi advisoi .iikI A IV Beutfl HealthCiope intf u-i dure toi . < cl with I’lnllipiiiissed ; Alien that ( I’K is .tti miporuntvholly fa for everyone to know, but twin Cher must I><■ admimstei,- < I , <u rectly. J.S. arm: “It saved my life," said Go^ The A who had a heart attack several'amiliar ago. srobing "A person should not do ni.douse an doesn't know how to do,” Gosone yeai added, saying that watching sttalks coll; one perform CPR on televisions Robert not qualify you to perform CPoress sec real life. LJ.S. offn 5hernen The Aggie Red Cross, formec$aturday fall, also leaches classes in CI’Rieclaratic first aid. Sherri Lewis, vicepre date.” Bt of the student group, believt >cem to knowing ( il’R is an important parents of any student's educ ation. athertha Sims’ c “There are so many people in a Sta have died just because nobodyHtliich sai there who knew CPR,” she said, of U.S. p wholly fa ALPHA Meeting ■an appar that tton is seeking “They crusade but actua Mon., Sept. 3, 1984 7:00 301 Rudder All Old Members Should Attend For This Important Meeting Refreshment Provided for more info, call 693-5506