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perated by students
'olunteers emphasize thorough training
By Carolyn Garcia
Reporter
The Texas A&M Emergency Care
earn began with six students inter
red in first aid and has grown into
me of the nation’s only student-op-
irated university emergency care
[earns.
The volunteer team has 30 full
nembers and 74 probational mem-
lers. All new members are on proba-
[ion for one semester. Then an ad-
nissions committee decides whether
io grant them full member status,
leam member John Turner said.
Ken Hutchenrider, deputy chief
if the University’s Emergency Medi-
|al Services, said the team answers
emergency calls on campus with
[he assistance of the 911 phone
umber and the campus operator.
When the operator receives a dis-
[resscall, the call is patched through
[oboth the police and the care team,
iutchenrider said.
Nathan Schwade, chief of the
imergency medical technicians, said
[he majority of the calls are sick calls,
[raffic accidents, sports-related inju-
iesand psychiatric calls.
“We get a lot of psychiatric calls,”
ichwade said. “They get painted in
[he corner about something and just
Lanthelp. Most are pill overdoses.”
Hutchenrider said, “For many it’s
their first time away from home and
they get sick or scared. We have to
play mother, father and best friend
and I don’t mean that derogatorily.
They just need someone.
“The doctors don’t go out on calls
with us. They don’t go out on the
ambulance at all, although we can
contact them by radio anytime we
feel we need to.”
Schwade said the team places
great emphasis on thorough and
continual training.
Students in the training process
are volunteers selected from a large
group of applicants, and through
this training they can achieve differ
ent levels of state certification status,
culminating with the highest rank,
medic one. A medic one typfrally
serves as an on-board ambulance at
tendant, he said.
The training includes mock disas
ters held at the Brayton Fireman
Training Field, continuous class
room participation and state certifi
cation, he said.
This process can take up to three
semesters depending on the stu
dent’s prior experience, Schwade
said.
“Some people who come in are
frustrated by this,” he said. “They
want to just jump in the ambulance
and go.”
This training is put to use daily
because the team is responsible for
covering all University events from
football games to MSG Town Hall,
he said.
Hutchenrider said the biggest rea
son most students join is to satisify
their need to help others.
Hutchenrider added that one of
the most valuable teaching tools
available is the team’s evaluation
process.
Schwade said, “Most services don’t
immediately evaluate a perfor
mance, or when they do it’s a long
time before you hear the results of
that evaluation. The supervisors
evaluate after every run and this
process makes us a little better on
the streets every time.”
Hutchenrider said realizing
you’re helping people is the best
part. The worst part, he said, is deal
ing with pain and death.
Schwade said the team has found
the best way to handle it is to talk it
through with others who have had to
deal with it before.
Hutchenrider said students must
maintain a 2.0 grade-point ratio and
carry a 12-hour course load. Each
volunteer must put in one hour a
day and one night shift per week.
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By Ed Bodde
Reporter
A Texas A&M professor says the earth-coupled, wa
ller-source heat pump he has been been using for more
[than a year to heat and cool a campus classroom can sig-
[nificantly reduce energy consumption.
William H. Aldred, associate professor of agricultu-
Jral engineering, says water-source heat pumps could re-
[duce energy consumption by up to 40 percent for cool-
ling and 60 percent for heating.
Because they are more efficient than both common
[electrical heat and liejuid propane furnace heat, he says,
[the pumps could eventually replace conventional air
[conaitioners.
The idea for a heat pump isn’t new, he says, but the
[way his operates is. In Aldred’s pump, water is circu-
J lated to save money.
The pump heats by removing heat from water and
[ cools by putting heat back into water, he says. The wa
ter source can be a well, pond or a pipe filled with wa
ter. Plastic pipes called heat exchangers are connected
| to these water sources.
The efficiency of the system is enhanced if the water
[source remains at a constant temperature, he says. Un
derground water is used because the Earth’s tempera
ture remains generally constant at depths of 30 feet or
| greater.
The rise in electric rates spurred people to start
looking for other forms of energy than resistance-gen
erated heat, he says. The water-source heat-pump sys
tem was originally proposed in the 1950s, but the re
search got a big push in the middle 1970s.
“Oklahoma State University and Louisiana State Uni
versity have done research on this,” Aldred says. “We
think we need more here (at A&M). This is the critical
part of the system.”
Because the installation of a water-source heat pump
can be more expensive than common heating and cool
ing systems, Aldred says, a consumer or business should
look at the economic considerations before purchasing
the system.
An individual or a business should decide how long
the system will be used and whether or not the initial in
stallation costs would be recovered, he says.
“Normally a three- to five-year payback can be expec
ted,” he says.
He adds, however, that this depends on present elec
trical rates, the consumer’s lifestyle and the type of in
sulation used.
Aldred says he became interested in different forms
of heating and cooling systems because he never had a
conventional air conditioner that lasted more than six
years.
He says water-source heat pumps last longer than
conventional air conditioners.
“There are records of these things (water-source heat
pumps) lasting 20 years,” Aldred says.
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