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  • PAGE 8/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/JANUARY 12, 1978 Emergency! WCU's Student Emergency Care Team f, by ROB DAVES and TONY BROWN WCU News Bureau When the alarm sounded, the crew of emergency medical technicians ran to the ambulance from their day room and were soon on their way to where a girl had accidentally broken a window and severed an artery on the jagged glass. The team used a compress on the wound on the way to the hospital where it was sewn up and bandaged. The team was credited with helping save the girl from bleeding to death. County ambulance or rescue squad members? 'SECT only one of kind in US' No, both team members were students, as are all seven members of WCU's Student Emergency Medical Care Team (SECT)—the only student emergency care team in North Carolina and according to SECT Chief Rhonda Summers, perhaps the only one in the United States. The WCU student emergency care team is like almost every other emergency care organization with two exceptions. "The major difference is that our SECT people work for free," Dr. Donald O'Neal, infirmary director at WCU and chief adviser to SECT, said. The other difference is that the team is staffed, trained, and governed by the students themselves. What kind of student joins the team? Chief Summers said that as long as someone is a student and has "a genuine interest in helping people," he is eligible to join as long as he meets academic standards. Business, physical education and biology majors join "We've had business, physical education, and biology majors on the team—it's not just limited to health science majors," she said. Team members offer in-service training, particularly to new members, but the WCU health sciences faculty teaches the two-semester sequence of courses enabling team members to apply for state certification as emergency medical technicians (EMTs). Alston Macon, co-adviser to the team and a member of the health sciences faculty, said the EMTs must have at least 150 contact hours of classroom instruction in basic physiology and emergency medical care, 20 hours of experience in a hospital emergency room, and pass a written and practical examination administered by the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services. The SECT also governs itself, and if any members do not perform their jobs satisfactorily they are disciplined by the group. When someone applies for membership to the team, they must undergo a training period before becoming a "permanent" member. The training period includes instruction for driving the ambulance and other emergency care classes. WCU's SECT serves not only the university but the surrounding community of Cullowhee as well. The team responds to fire calls and other emergencies. Dr. Glenn Stillion, vice chancellor for student development at WCU, said he was impressed not only with the fact that members are not paid but that they provide service 24 hours a day, seven days a week when school is in session. And their response time to a call is usually less than two minutes. SECT on call 24 hours a day Chief Summers attributed the short response time to a system that had to be worked out since most team members live at different places on campus. Consequently the ambulance follows a regular path on the way to a call, picking up members as it goes. At least three SECT members, one of them an EMT, are on duty 24 hours a day. Team members are equipped with electronic "beepers" to signal them, in class or out, that the ambulance is on its way. Another reason for the short response time, she said, is the unannounced drills each semester. Only certain WCU administrators. Dr. O'Neal, and the SECT chief know about them. "We practice everything from major automobile accidents to falls in the showers," Chief Summers said. "Last session, for example, we had a disaster dirll where a real bloody brawl was simulated." Spring semester is about the busiest time of the year for the team. Chief Summers said there are more athletic and outdoor injuries in the spring. Fall also brings sport-related injuries. We think of SECT as a big family' Although most team members live in residence halls, the university has provided a section of Moore Hall as headquarters for the team where some team members live without paying the usual residence hall rent. "We really think of the team as a big family," Chief SECT equipped to h FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK The Bank for all your financial needs. Cheeking, savings, loans. First Union National has all the services that make things easy for you. FIVE CONVENIENT LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOUR EVERY BANKING NEED West Main — Sylva East Main — Sylva Campus Drive — Cullowhee Two Locations — Cherokee in sjijs |i.■ .i.i.i.i ■ »,'.'A' '■' I-M.' J ':t,:Vi\'l9lli,fiti'.!\,Vf WtHWi.*- Jl»TH*' Summers said, "with Dr. O'Neal, Alston Macon, and Tom Tabor as the parents." Tabor, a physicians assistant at the WCU infirmary, co-advises the team with Macon. The team is equipped to handle almost any emergency from a major car accident to a sprained ankle, but much of the equipment was aging until last summer when SECT members greeted the arrival of a newly-designed ambulance like kids on Christmas morning. It replaced the older, converted van among whose tools included a lawnmower blade as a device for Saving WCU Emergency Care Team Chief Rhonda Summers (left) and Equipment Officer Samuel Parkinson adminster oxygen to a student patient en route to WCU's infirmary. 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