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Monday, November 23,1987/The Battalic State and Local J &M medical service workers elp save heart-attack victim By Kimberly House Reporter ramedic Steven McDonald of exas A&M Emergency Medical ce said as volunteers for the ce, the paramedics’ paycheck is elp others and possibly save :one’s life. On November 14, bersof the EMS were paid well, inutes before the Arkansas at Kyle Field, Five EMS volun- and a physician from Belton ed save a man’s life with a Life 5 defibrillator. illiam Goodrum, 56, of Bay City ted a cardiac arrest on the cam- ntersection of Clark Street and butt Boulevard. University po lice officers were called to the scene to help Goodrum, who was thought to be having seizures. Several onlookers started CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on Goodrum while medics from the First-aid station at the north end zone rushed to help, McDonald said. He said Goodrum had no pulse and was not breathing when he and other paramedics arrived. “Clinically, and for all records, when there is no pulse or breathing the patient is dead and there is only a 33 percent chance that he can be brought back to life in the Field,” Mc Donald said. However, he said, with the new Life Pack 5 and heart medications now available, the medical service is able to do anything in the Field that a hospital can do. Consequently, Goodrum was breathing before the ambulance reached the hospital, he said. The Life Pack 5 defibrillator mon itors the electrical activity of the heart and delivers shocks to the pa tient to “jump start” the heart, Mc Donald said. He said CPR was continued in the ambulance. Sandra Lark, Goodrum’s girlf riend, said, “We should praise the paramedics in this town. They are wonderful.” Goodrum was out of intensive care and was receiving treatment in a progressive care unit late Sunday afternoon. Lark said Goodrum was at Hu mana Hospital by 1:20 p.m. that Sat urday afternoon and was on a life support system for three days. McDonald said the First hour after a person is injured is called the “gol den hour,” which means the more that can be done in that hour, the better the chance a person has to live. McDonald said EMS has had the Life Pack since May and it cost about $9,000. It was purchased by the A.P. Beutel Health Center with money gained from research performed by Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the health center. e where This i) ate elec state SC' By Janice Riggs Reporter lany Aggies, like most Ameri- 5, will sit down to a Thanksgiving net Thursday, and students who in town for the holiday have va- is choices on how and where to ican and fthemselves. portant ;e. Later tudents have several dining options or traditional Thanksgiving feasting mnatm, ihade on 1 Repub- rties that don’t e already ie nomi- it to hear is speak- .one Star ; prairft leys and ’s largest oil wells, r the rag- , sail the Gulf of es on for innounce ather an- vote just itions are hey pre- Work We i’t vote, s FALSE- ot Ronald crisp pre ve should indidatesj mors wl; r the best King, of il sciend he Battal' thed H M (any area restaurants, the MSC eteria, Rudder Tower Dining )m and even some students are paring to feed hungry Aggies their friends. [’m having a hard time Figuring where my family is going to eat,” David Walter, a sophomore en- nmental design major. “Students ter get reservations or plans de for their Thanksgiving din- This may not seem to be a prob- now, but when the A&M and fans come into town, this place is ingto be a madhouse.” arole Evans, a clerk at the Rud- Tower Dining Room, said they Graphic by Susan C. Akin will be serving from 11 a.m. until the game starts. “We will have a buffet with turkey and the traditional trimmings,” she said. Ronald Beard, a Texas A&M din ing center manager, said the MSC cafeteria will be open from 7 a.m. with Thanksgiving dinner being served at 10:45 a.m. until the game starts or until the last person is fed. “We’ll be geared up for all the people,” Beard said. “Most families will be appropriately dressed in their maroon and white. Some people have been coming here for years.” Beard said the cafeteria will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, ham, candied yams and holiday salads. Dining centers like Sbisa and the Commons will be closed Thursday. But what about students who are expecting relatives or a small army from all over the county, state or country? One option for them would be to order a fully prepared Thanksgiving dinner from cafeterias in the Bryan- College Station area. Take-out dinners at Luby’s and Wyatt’s cafeterias will consist of tur key, dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Small and large meals are available. James Harvill, manager of Luby’s, and Russell Kost, assistant manager of Wyatt’s, said they are expecting big crowds. Other restaurants that will serve Thanksgiving meals include Fort Shiloh Steakhouse, 3 C Bar-B-Q, K- Bob’s Steak House, Interurban Eat ing House and Casa Tomas Mexican Restaurant. Jim Talbot, manager of Casa To mas, said the restaurant will serve a traditional Thanksgiving buffet with added dishes that have a southwes tern flair, like tamale dressing and pumpkin empanadas and flans. But some students, like Emerson Sox, a junior engineering and tech nology major, plan to have a home- cooked meal. “My girlfriend and her mother will probably cook the turkey and I’ll run around and take orders,” Sox said. “I’ll eat anything but a proc essed turkey roll. Those things are nasty.” Walter said his cooking responsi bilities regarding the Thanksgiving hoopla probably will be limited. “I would help cook the turkey and everything, but I have a hard time heating up frozen dinners,” he said Texas City residents worry about ill effects f:om chemical leak TEXAS CITY (AP) — Dead trees and grass are a daily re minder of last month’s chemical leak, and some residents want to know whether the leak has long term health implications. Della Scurry says her 3-month- old son, Wayne, has scars on his head and face and a bald spot on his scalp where his hair has fallen out. “I’m worried about him,” she said. A passing cloud of highly toxic hydrofluoric acid from a Mar athon Petroleum Co. plant forced the evacuation of about 3,000 Texas City residents Oct. 30. “Will he be able to have a fam ily of his own?” asks Scurry, who also has blisters on her arms from the incident. “Will he be able to survive?” The answer to that is, “Yes,” say two experts on the effects of exposure to hydrofluoric acid. But experts caution that not enough research has been done on the long-term effects from a single exposure to the acid to put Scurry’s mind at ease. “One single exposure should not have life-threatening, long term effects,” said Dr. Suresh Gupta, a scientist for the federal government’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health headquartered in Cincin nati. “But these people should be monitored once a year (or) every Five to 10 years for the next 20 years,” he said. Frank Weir, director of envi ronmental safety for the Univer sity of Texas Health Science Cen ter at Houston, agrees. “If they survived the immedi ate exposure, they should survive in the long term,” Weir said. “The human body has a phe nomenal ability to repair itself,” he said. There are no conclusive stud ies on long-term effects from sin gle exposures. “If they survived the immediate exposure, they should survive in the long term. ” — Frank Weir, UT Health Science Center environmental safety director But there are reams of studies on long-term effects from re peated exposures, the kind that people who work daily with the acid might receive. In 15 to 20 years, these victims began to show symptoms of va rious ailments — osteoporosis, which is a bone disease character ized by a reduction in bone den sity; kidney failure, and in chil dren, discoloration of teeth, Gupta said. Weir says the harsh aspects of hydrofluoric acid usually are pre sent in the beginning. 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