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Show The Page Twenty complete blood tranfusion in order to survive. The University Hospital intensive care persons called at 9 p.m. and told me to meet them at the airport by 9:20 how p.m. to see first-han- d their transport team worked. Crabbing keys, camera and purse, I ran out the door and rushed to the airport. Scrambling through the evening traffic, I was there by 9:15 p.m. The plane was warming up while the helicopter carrying the transport team SHELLEY WEYFORTH Chronicle Staff Jeremy was barely 18 hours old when the medical transport team arrived at the emergency room at a rural Price hospital. He was a d baby in need of seven-poun- the facilities at the University Hospital's Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). He was born with blood type B and it conflicted with his mother's blood type O. He was jaundiced and need would a possibly flew in. After quick introductions we jumped MU-- 2 into the turbo-pro- p and took off. The team consisted of three registered nurses Mary Jane, Kay and Laurie In and a pilot and front of me sat a $16,000 co-pil- incubator that would monitor Jeremy's body functions on the return trip. As we were approaching 20,000 feet, I asked the nurses what convinced them to be a part of a medical transport team that flew all over the West at strange hours of the night. "It's interesting, exciting, educating, exhausting and a well-paijob," they said. Picking up sick newborn babies to bring back to the d 9 f mm ATT v ir '.:- - "V University Hospital involves several difficult hours of medical care. The requirements 1 Wi !i 7f 4 1 JA turbo-pro- p to become a part of the transport team are a one year experience in newborn intensive care, and preferably six months experience at the University k Hospital. Then a intensive training course which covers any medical they emergencies might encounter and a quick course in public relations. Public relations may not seem necessary to many people, but as we were to soon find out, when you are ready to whisk someone's newborn away in a jet plane, the parents do not always greet you with roses. Mary Jane, the head of the team, and Kay both are recent graduates of the University. Laurie is a recent graduate from Westminster College. two-wee- ledical transport team aids patients enroute to hospital in 1U-- 2 airplane. Utah Chronicle Openings 1978 to rural areas Med transport-lifeli- ne by Daily As we began to make our descent 20 minutes later, I realized my insides were not going down with the rest of my body. Kay smiled and offered me some Drama-min- e while Laurie passed me a "barf bag" which fortunately I didn't need. V -- c fr Thirty minutes after takeoff we were sitting in an ambulance, 125 miles away from home, on our way to the Price hospital emergency room. Catching my breath and feeling my insides slide back into place, the nurses and pilots began to joke about rural hospitals and ambulances. Laurie was laughing about the time the team was picked up in a station wagon used as a small town ambulance. Mary Jane on another small town ambulance that had "It's Never Too Late for commented Jesus" written on the ceiling above the stretcher. Meanwhile, I was thinking how organized and calm everything was. The team members transport were wearing team uniforms (University colors, of course), and all their equipment was piled high on the stretcher in the ambulance. When we got to the emergency room at Price, we were rushed into a small room where little Jeremy lay waiting to be taken away by the transport team. The team went to work. Kay checked his vital signs, while Laurie went out to speak with the parents and explain the transport system. Mary Jane spoke with the nurse and tried to get a 4 trtf hK Emergency jet helicopter used history of what Jeremy's short life had entailed. Questions that seemed obvious even to me, confused the local nurse. For every question Mary Jane asked her, the nurse would smile unknowingly and say "I got everything you asked for over the phone." Finished with checking Jeremy's history and getting his vital signs, Mary Jane and Kay began attaching the incubator to his body. After transferring his intravenous hookup, they attached small needles to his chest to monitor the heart and respiration. Another little 18-ho- ur needle was attached to monitor his blood pressure, and still another was attached to monitor body temperature. Jeremy began to cry which brought smiles to the nurses' faces. They said it was rare to hear a baby cry; most of the babies at the NICU are too sick to cry. it 7, u in ssi by U Hospital Jeremy. This, they said, is hospital policy. Parents have a tendency to get emotional in the close quarters of the MU-and the nurses have enough to take care of without taking care of parents, too. Jeremy's father had already left to drive the 125 miles to the University Hospital to meet the team when they arrived. Within 30 minutes Jeremy was hooked up to the incubator, and the team was ready to leave. They wheeled him out into the hall so his mother could say good-by- e to him. The transport nurses explained every part of the incubator to her which with all its blinking lights, looked 2 like a Christmas rather computerized tree. Smiling awkwardly, the mother looked relieved and frightened. With that, off we went in the wrong direction to the ambulance. After making a we passed the quick mother again who recieved a reassuring, knowledgeable smile from Mary Jane, Laurie and Kay. n, They began to warm the incubator. Laurie came back with the news that the parents were upset because the father could not fly back with continued on page 21 AUTUMN QUARTER LIBERAL EDUCATION COURSES There is still room for you in several Liberal Education CORE courses if you have not yet registered or need to revise your schedule. You can fill Liberal Education requirements and get involved in interesting issues with excellent instructors. HUMANITIES AREA NEW CORE COURSE 1:30-3:0- 5 Prof A. M. Sievers TH LE 120 "ASIA: PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURE" An introduction to Asian civilizations viewing interactions between cultures within Asia, and between Asia and the rest of the world. This quarter will concentrate on cultural patterns of the Asian experience. SCIENCE AREA 5 Prof G. A. Williams MTWHF LE 130 "TOPICS IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE: ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS" Our dependence on the natural environment and our use and abuse of it are examined through basic physical principles, concepts and ideas. 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