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Local and Regional EMS News
started certifying," also works with Randy
Nolte and North Runnels EMS in Winters.
The City of Greenville has contracted
with Dallas' Darryl Quigley to provide emer-
gency medical services for the city. EMS re-
sponsibility had been a function of the
Greenville Fire Department where 22 fire-
fighters served as EMTs.
Montgomery County donates
ambulance to Cut-n-Shoot
The Montgomery County Medical Center
Hospital EMS donated a 1975 modulance
Type I emergency vehicle to the Cut-n-Shoot
Volunteer Fire Department which Cut-n-Shoot
plans to use as a first, response unit for
medical. and rescue emergencies. Paramedic
Scott Springfield with Montgomery County
Medical Center Hospital EMS said, "Cut-n-
Shoot Volunteer Fire Department has been
extremely active in the Montgomery County.
Hospital EMS first responder system.'
The ambulance had been modified by
Montgomery County Hospital EMS as a
mobile disaster and emergency response unit.
Austin public education
program wins award,
TDH Commissioner Robert Bernstein will
recognize the Austin EMS DWI Awareness
Program in an award ceremony during the,
Texas Board of Health meeting on February
25. The Austin program is one of five
education programs across the state named as
winners of The Secretary's Community Health
Promotion 'Awards for 1990.,Bonnie Liles, who is a paramedic with
City of Austin EMS, presented the program at
both the Texas Association of EMTs Annual
Symposium and the Texas Department of
Health EMS Conference during 1989.
*The five Texas health promotion winners
will compete with other states' winners for
the Secretary's Awards for Excellence in
Community Health Promotion. In 1988 25
programs received Awards for Excellence.
Austin EMS paramedic Allan Boutwellstarted the DWI awareness program and was recognized by Texas Associa-
tion of EMTs and National Association of EMTs for his outstanding work.
San Saba EMT
appointed to TDH transfer co mmittee
Trouba Derrick, one of the EMTs who founded San Saba Volunteer
EMS, was appointed by the Texas Board of Health to the hospital transfer
committee set up as part of H.B. 18, the Omnibus Health Care Rescue
Act. Derrick, like many EMTs across the state, has dealt with the prob-
lems EMS faces when the local hospital closes. The San Saba hospital
closed for the last time in January, 1989.
Killer bees expected to reach Texas soon
Africanized honeybees, the so-called "killer bees," could cross the
Mexican border into Texas as early as March of this year, estimate experts
attending the 36th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of Amer-
ica which met in San Antonio in December. A story in the Austin Ameri-
can Statesman quoted Texas A&M University scientist Fowden Maxwell
as saying the Africanized bees could cause twelve to fourteen deaths a
year in Texas.
Texas Preventable Disease News said in a recent article that African-
ized honeybees present a potential threat to humans via either a direct
toxic effect through envenomation resulting from multiple stings or a
severe allergic or anaphylactic response to one or more stings in a sensi-
tized individual. Only 40 individuals die each year as a result of honeybee
stings, and the majority of those are'hypersensitivity reactions.
EMS, police, firefighters,, and others who might be involved in
activities where they may be exposed to Africanized honeybee stings
should be skin or RAST (radioallergosorbent) tested. Sensitive individuals
should avoid exposure, even after successful immunotherapy.
No special training of EMS or medical personnel is required to treat
Africanized honeybde stings, said the article by Dr. Thomas Betz and
Bobby Davis, since management of reactions of the type seen with
Africanized honeybee stings is already part of standard medical training.
Serious reactions to. the stings include large local reactions, systemic
reactions, and anaphylaxis with circulatory collapse or respiratory obstruc-
tion..An article in the December, 1989, jems magazine quoted a Houston
beekeeper. as saying that the, greatest concern in an attack situation is to
secure the area from would-be rescuers. Darrell Lister uses a videotape he
made in Venezuela for his four-hour training sessions with the Houston
Fire Department. Lister said that insecticides are useless on attacking bees,
but thai soapy water immobilizes and kills them by clogging their respira-
tory pores.
The -bees were introduced in Brazil in 1957, moved to Central Amer-
ica in 1981, and hit Mexico in 1986. The bees are highly defensive and
more easily provoked than honeybees usually found in this country.Texas EMS Messenger February 1990
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