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To Texas EMS Magazine: I recently
attended a TDH town meeting
concerning Project Alpha. While I
see many positive changes forth-
coming, one item that concerns me
is the lack of responsibility for each
and every county in Texas to pro-
vide EMS services.
It has been mandated that each
county provide law enforcement
and fire protection for many years.
Does this mean that property is
more important than human lives?
If TDH is digressing from the role
it has played in assisting rural and
volunteer providers, who then will
assure their existence?
I believe that it is long overdue
that EMS as a whole make a voice
through the legislature making
counties responsible for the provi-
sion of this vital service, not only for
its residents, but for those passing
through these counties on the high-
ways and byways.
If you agree that EMS should
begin this process, write your let-
ters of support to: Michael Gilbert,
EMT-P, HCR 3 Box 50-0, Del Rio,
TX 78840.
Michael Gilbert, EMT-P
Del Rio, Texas
To Texas EMS Magazine: We are
fortunate at our college to have
many talented and innovative stu-e
r
S
dents. We like to brag about them.
One such student, Shauna Evans,
has invented an acronym that we
are using to teach patient assess-
ment. Here is how it goes:
Some Idiots In Paramedicine
Forget Vital Signs So Doctors
Can't Operate.
S= Scene Survey
I= Initial Assessment
I= Interventions
P= Patient Priority
F= Focused Patient
Assessment
V= Vital Signs
S= SAMPLE History
D= Detailed Patient
Assessment
C= Communicate Radio
Assessment
O= Ongoing Assessment and
Interventions
First time EMT students who
are learning the steps of patient as-
sessment tell us that it seems like a
monumental task. We have found
that Ms. Evans' acronym has
worked very well as a learning aid.
With her permission, we are send-
ing it to you for publication, so that
other students may benefit from
her creativity. All she asks in re-
turn is that she be given written
credit.
Carol F. Mason, EMT-P
Houston`The Bureau of Emergency
Management
mourns the passing of these
EMI friends
Steven McDonald, DO, of
Temple, wasfatally shot on
October 10, 1997. McDonald
received his bachelor of science
degreefrom Texas A&M Univer-
sity and served as a paramedic
and chief of EMSfor Texas A&M
University EMS. He was pres-
ently serving as a third year
emergency medicine resident at
Scott & White Hospital. He was
also an instructor for Scott &
White EMS Education Program.
James Alvin Warwick, 52,
of Burnet, died on December 23,
1996, when he was struck by a
vehicle while working an accident
scene. Warwick had received his
30-year pin with Burnet Fire
Department in October 1996,
having served as president, vice-
president, secretary, assistant fire
chief and assistant fire marshal.
He was also an EMS volunteer
driver and had worked for the
City of Burnet for several years in
positions such as traffic engineer,
zoning administrator, city
alderman and interim city
manager.6 Texas EMS Magazine January/February 1998
Answers
Continuing education test
in November/December
Texas EMS Magazine:
1. c 6. b
2.d 7.a
3. c 8. b
4. a 9. b
5. d 10. dCE Clarification: Clarification on "Street
Legal," the CE article in the November/De-
cember issue: Under the Duty to Act section,
the fifth sentence should read, "Once you have
begun care, you cannot stop until you have
turned the patient over to someone with equal
or higher certification." For example, if you
are a paramedic and stop to render BLS care,
you can turn the patient over to BLS first re-
sponders. However, if you are giving ALS care,
you have to turn care over to another para-
medic or someone with higher certification.
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