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&M medical service workers
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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.
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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
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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. Nasal pas
sages, lungs and other moist skin
membranes are at risk.
Low concentrations, such as
the exposure in Texas City, could
result in some upper respiratory
C roblems and scarring that could
ist a lifetime, Weir said.
But once the burning, searing
and most painful effects of the
exposure wear off, the residue
fluoride becomes the cause of
concern.
Fluoride, the experts say, seeks
out and replaces calcium. If
enough is absorbed by the body,
it could collect in the bones, liga
ments, kidneys and teeth.
Whether these symptoms show
up in Texas City residents in later
years largely will depend on how
concentrated an exposure they
received when the acid cloud
passed over the city, and the pas
sage of time, Gupta and Weir say.
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