Show 2B The Salt Lake Tribune r Monday April 9 1990 Hospital Employee Makes Her Livin By Taking Donations for Her Bank By Cathy Free Tribune Staff Writer She sometimes sees more "negatives" than "positives" but Joan Stewart enjoys working as a matchmaker of sorts patiently laboring for eight hours each day to find people "just the right type" As a medical technologist working behind the scenes in Cottonwood Hospital's laboratory and blood bank Joan rarely gets to meet the people she helps but she has contributed to saving numerous lives Whether somebody is bleeding in the emergency room from a gunshot wound or a doctor has ordered a blood test during a physical exam it is Joan's job to determine each patient's blood type and do test to ensure that if a transfusion is needed the combination of donor and recipient blood won't cause a harmful reaction She also makes certain that the blood bank 'a temperature-controllerefrigerators are wellstocked at all times From the most popular blood (the blood type of type of one in three people) to the rarest (the blood type type of of only one person in 167) Joan and other medical technologists make sure they keep an accurate count Just one or two extra pints could save somebody's life This week is National Medical Laboratory Week — an appropriate time to pay tribute to Joan 28 who has been on the job at Cottonwood Hospital for seven years and is currently working the "swing" shift from 3 to 11:30 pm Currently there is a severe shortage of medical technologists — possibly because people are afraid of infectious diseases like AIDS says Joan "But there are simple precautions you can take" she says "I always wear rubber gloves if I have cuts or scratches on my hands We are extremely careful and treat all blood samples as infectious — there is no way for us to know whether a patient may have hepatitis or AIDS" Fascinated with biology and chemistry in high school unlike a few of cross-matchin- g d g her classmates who struggled to keep from falling asleep Joan always knew she'd end up working with test tubes and microscopes in a laboratory somewhere After receiving her bachelor's degree in microbiology at Brigham she spent six Young University months as an intern at Cottonwood then went to work as a lab "generalist" on the night shift "As a generalist I had to work in all four areas of the lab — chemistry hematology microbiology and the blood bank" she says "One minute I'd be testing a blood sample while the next minute I'd be rushing to the emergency room to do a transfusion Sometimes I'd get three 'stats' at once and it would be pretty challenging to try and keep up "Working at night I've seen a lot of trauma — people who had been shot car accident victims people who had had heart attacks Each person has only about 10 units of blood in them but with a gunshot wound it isn't uncommon to go through 20 or 30 pints of blood in a short period of time This is a job that often causes you to feel stress and emotion "But there does come a point where you can't get too involved Today working in the blood bank I usually don't see the patients but I still wonder about them A lot of people probably think 'Oh those people in the lab are just reading samples' but really there is compassion involved These are more than just blood samples — they SO ' Selected forecast temperatures throughout the state (111): Standing 6936 Cedar City 6233 Omen Rivet 6716 Logan 5734 Moab 7045 Ogden 6131 6335 $alt Lake City 6036 6040 $t George 7744 Provo doww 6030 Rental 0 70 111P 110111011100111 VAIIr IPA" f Air Pollution Index "- r f e0 WJN Ow Co in- - t 511'" 111 02 r AM too001010 60 000 EI:1 f4 rcwift0 EM AS 70 MP o w 8W0W &tar Ed v 4611:4 or (a ovor mid-30- mid-30- s Monday with highs in the low to mid-60- s Marc lay night will be fair and cooler with lows in the low 30s Tuesday will be sunny and warmer with highs in the low 70s Southeast Utah — Partly cloudy skies ore expected Monday with a few lingering Weather Summary Intermountain Pit—Missing T—Trocs Ely Las Conditions I Procip Utah M M Blanding Brigham City &Yee Canyon M 43 45 Bu !tog Cedar CB) Coarville Delta 56 SO M 33 69 55 41 31 SO 53 Fillmore 60 43 40 Naming Gorge Green River Honksvilie Hebei Criv Fleiper Konab Logan Midway Milord Moot) Monticello Nephi M M 61 69 55 41 50 M M 48 59 66 33 Ogden Park City Pnce Provo Rondolph Rictted Roosevett Solt Lake City Spanisti Fork St George TOtotA linty or Utah Vernal Wenclover Zion Not Park 71 57 35 M 46 35 38 45 26 58 54 60 58 57 60 18 61 57 53 53 71 41 37 46 43 55 43 43 43 45 47 be low 70s in the mid-40- s Tuesday Casper Cheyenne Evanston laromie Rock Springs 48 46 78 62 62 Zion National Pork — Monday will be mostly sunny becoming fair Monday night Tuesday will be sunny and warmer Highs will be in the mid-70- s Monday and mid-80- s Tuesday Lows will be in the low to mid-40- s 3 to 5 Day Extended Forecast — Sunny skies and warm temperatures ore expected Wednesday with breezy south winds Thursday and Friday will be fair in the south but partly cloudy with scattered showers or thunderstorms in the north Highs Wednesday wit be in the low 70s to near 90 degrees dropping to the 60s north and upper 60s to low 80s south Thursday and Friday Overnight lows will be in the 30s to low 40s 67 63 47 57 67 34 33 25 29 34 Boise Idaho Foils Pocatello Rexburg Twin Fans W Yellowstone Denver Grond Junction 62 45 52 57 57 41 A9 41 3$ 47 15 12 53 26 T 66 60 39 44 21 T PoMard 15 San Diego San Francisco Seattle Midwest Bismarck 40 041 05 Amsterdam 03 38 22 27 09 08 14 07 07 M 25 46 24 M M 45 Buenos Aires Cairo Dublin 73 82 Geneva 48 11 52 57 82 39 32 52 55 37 43 70 37 41 51 23 M M 43 55 64 75 68 23 41 $5 64 51 Berlin 31 T Hong Kong London Modrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow Oslo Pans Rome Sydney Tokyo MI 51 55 83 69 57 68 64 5$ 25 27 65 56 45 57 53 42 Today's Forecast N SO L WS 25 snny M 28 snny 82 65 pici 75 65 70 67 60 70 26 52 snny 44 pict M wavy 51 ptcl 43 clay 33 wndy 41 shwa 33 pict 55 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road and attempted to turn north onto SR88 when the tractor and first oil tanker went off the west side of SR88 and rolled Trooper Squires said The driver was ejected and the vehicle landed on top of him he added The impact tore a hole in the tank q :t'S - N '4-'"'i::- :::::::':1:4i'i5il At'S":'1'4'1'''':''''''''::':''''7::'-:'::'::)4- 1H ' ir:::4 0 - ::: !" :: :1111 I rIpi-11- i4 :b ?:‘4 ''0 ''''':tz1 ''' irNI4' ''' '':l '' f '' iNkl- i-i- ' k:"1 J 'It - :::? ) ' 7s3 ::: J ' ?::: :4 ' Sicytt Moto by Lynn R Johnson matching the appropriate patient and donor blood types has saved numerous lives er and allowed crude oil to escape Trooper Squires said but crews directed by the state Department of Health used the berm of an existing irrigation ditch to stem the oil's flow toward Pelican Lake The trooper said the cause of the accident is still under investigation Law Fraternity Honors Utah Attorney General Utah Attorney General Paul Van Dam has been named an honorary member of the Sutherland Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta the largest international law fraternity in the world Presenters said honors were awarded for the outstanding example Mr Van Dam has set for the legal particularly law profession April Showers Patter Across Much of State Gray skies and periodic rain showers covered central and northern Utah Sunday as a storm moved slowly across the state National Weather Service meteorologist William Alder said a band of g moisture rotating around a low pressure system produced some steady showers in the Salt Lake Valley Sunday morning But the hiaviest precipitation was reserved for central Utah largely because the storm was being carried by a southerly air flow Mr Alder said a foot of snow fell slow-movin- at the top of Fairview Canyon between Emery and Sanpete counties while 2 inches of snow was measured near Cedar Breaks National Monument Rain fell much of the day in an area from Richfield and Delta on the west to Green River and Grand Junction Colo on the east Most of Sunday's snow was confined to elevations above 9000 feet he said but the snow level could drop to 8000 feet Monday morning because of colder air behind the front The frontal passage also should result in less wind Gusts Sunday reached 40 mph in the western valleys he added Showers are expected to diminish Monday morning in the Salt Lake Valley with skies becoming partly sunny by afternoon Tuesday looks like a warm sunny day but clouds will increase again Wednesday in advance of a storm that could produce scattered showers Thursday and Friday mostly in north Utah Salt Lake City's high temperature reading Sunday) is (after a expected to be near 60 Monday near Wednes70 Tuesday in the mid-70- s Thursday and day and the mid-60- s Friday Lows should range from the upper 30s to the lower 40s in more than 200 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District since 1979 The program has four components — information clearing house counseling outreach conflict management and transfer of knowledge — that provide critical prevention and intervention measures he said — Information clearing house: This serves police school officials and parents through intelligence-gatherinrumor-contrand as an g r centive the Attorney General's Office could receive a $33 million to $35 million in additional revenues during the next 18 months but the legislation calls for a review of the program after that time to determine if the increased attorney general budget is actually bringing in more money for the state With the conditions placed on the budget increase Mr Clark has said it creates the danger of the state rearranging its priorities to force more collections "If a government office is funded through the collection process that process might become skewed or twisted — made unfair somehow so the office could collect more money" he said With the additional money the attorney general eventually plans to hire 17 new attorneys Six of those are planned for the Tax Commission to increase the collections on the amount of money owed to the state Mr Clark said the office is faced with shortages in just about every area it is obliged to serve but another priority will be the licensing and consumer-protectioarea that Mr Buhler has such grave concerns about n underground resource network — Counseling outreach: This portion of the program serves as a vehicle whereby youths are encouraged to change direction and pursue positive goals — Crisis intervention and conflict management: Here teams in select schools provide intervention and prevention skills through highly activities on school campuses — Transfer of knowledge: In this segment SEY YES educate school administrators teachers police par: ents and others in the community through workshops seminars and training "The primary concern of the program is to save youth from becoming victims of activities" Mr Guinses said "Turn negative energies into positive ones Help youngsters enter the mainstream of life through a basic socialization process which includes counseling them their teachers and public officials and training with placement in jobs within the community and other certain selected communities" Mr Guinses said he has earned the respect of gang members by getting many of them jobs and listening to them "That's how I got my credibility I was the only cne that listened to them I don't condone what they do but I went to bat for them got them involved in sports programs" he said "I have a rule that if you want to do something positive come see me If you want to gangbang you can't deal with me" said Mr Guinses "If you're out there selling dope or mugging then you can't work for me" Gangs in Los Angeles New York Philadelphia Chicago "and other big cities" are in it for the money he said And they're getting their money from drugs "You're not going to change that" he said "Before I came here we had nine LA County Sheriff's deputies inmondicted for taking ey People are in this for the money If the demand is there you can arrest 100 dealers in town and 100 more will be in line to replace them" he said gang-relate- d dope-dealin- g II CONCRETE SINKING OR SETTLING? 53 strin 49 arm 52 slam 33 36 37 32 35 gram called "An Alternative Approach to the Reduction of Gangs" that has been implemented Imunawaomma Don't Break if up! snny 'any Don't Replace it! RAISE IT" 1 We Raise Most Slabs of Concrete (Including Stairs) snny snny snny DON'T WAIT CALL TODAY I FOP A FREE MI 02 - -- 7: - B-- lost Yesterday's Conditions 01 Pacific States Anchorage 1 Global Temps 15 33 28 Yesterday's Conditions L N Precip Fairbonks Honciutu Los Angeies Idaho " Continued From I that with more money he could hire more attorneys to better enforce the payment of delinquent taxes and other debts owed to the state His requested 50 percent budget hike was refused by a legislative appropriations subcommittee The subcommittee recommended just a slight increase for the office in its report to the Executive Appropriations Ccmmittee But after attorney general representatives then pleaded their case to leaders of the Executive Appropriations Committee Senate Appropriation Chairman Lyle Hi llyard came up with a plan to grant the increase but justify it with increased collections for the state coffers The Legislature in following Sen Hillyard's plan granted the Attorney General's Office a $500000 increase for the current figral year that en& this June and another $2 million increase for the next fiscal year that begins July 1 The plan also gives the Attorney General's Office 30 percent of all delinquent state tax collections above $12 million That envisions about a $3 million increase in current collections before the attorney general receives any portion of it Officials estimate that with the in National 46 16 - Crime Cases Stack Up for Van Dam Daily Data AO 39 pk ' 4:''''":"H: J ' t White-Colla- 08 Precipitation — 08 Precipitation this month — Accumulative deficiency — 43 510 Precipitation since Oct I 1989 — Accumulative deficiency — 279 — St 71 at State high George — 30 low State at Ana 57 de9re4 SIC high — 46 degrows SLC low — Normal high for this date — 51 degrees Normal low for this date — 35 dogreet Record high for this date — $I ciogmos — 25 dogroos Record low for this date 6:59 MOT SunrIse Today — — Sunset Today II:00 MOT 62 39 37 55 Colorado 21 M 51 15 38 39 53 39 will Montana 41 M 44 06 26 22 17 37 01 36 36 Vegas Reno Winnemucca Wyoming SO 37 Monday and s - - f' In response to increased gang violence and crime in Southern California Mr Guinses developed a pro Novocia Yostonioys A113 mid-60- Overnight lows Elko WS—Siummory N showers of thunderstorms Monday night will be mostly and cooler Sunny skies and warmer temperatures are expected Tuesday Highs will be in the low 60s to upper 70s with overnight lows in the 30s and 40s Utah's Dixie — The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies Monday with fair skies at night Highs will be in the upper 70s with lows in the mid-40- s Tuesday will be sunny and warmer Highs will reach the mid-80- s Recreational Areas — Northern Ski Areas — The forecast calls for decreasing clouds and showers Monday with moderate northwest ridgetop winds Tuesday will be sunny and warmer Highs will be in the 40s and 50s with lows in the upper 20s Southern Ski Areas and High Plateaus — the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies Monday with scattered showers and thundershowers Tuesday will be sunny and warmer Highs will be in the 50s and 60s with overnight lows in the 20s and 30s Lake Powell and Canyonlands — The forecast calls for portly cloudy skies Monday with a few lingering showers or thunderstorms Monday night will be fair and cooler Sunny and warmer conditions ore expected Tuesday Lake Powell highs will be in the mid-70- s Monday and upper 705 Tuesday Overnight lows will be in the mid50s Canyonlands will have highs in the : 4- - - 7— -- ness" Area Forecast Monday and Tuesday Notthem Utah Forecast — Cache Valley — The forecast calls for decreasing mods and showers early Monday with partly cloudy skies in the afternoon Highs will be in the upper 50s Monday night will be mostly fair and cooler with lows in the s Tuesday will be mostly sunny and much warmer with highs In the upper 605 Wasatch Fiord and Great Salt Lake Desert — The forecast calls for decreasing clouds and showers early Monday with portly cloudy skies in the afternoon Highs will be in the low 60s Monday night will be mostly fair and a little cooler with lows in to near 40 degrees Tuesday the will be sunny and much warmer with highs reaching the low 705 Uinta Basin — Decreasing clouds and showers are expected Monday Highs will be near 60 degrees Monday night will be fair to portly cloudy and cooler Lows will be near 30 Tuesday will be sunny and warmer with highs near 70 Southern Utah Forecast — Southwest Valleys and Deserts and Sevier Valley — The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies 4' Z : ' iiik 7 ! gang-member- VenPo W 0 Ea aan C0 &Awe v 5i - Continued From 8-- I in Texas before conducting a seminar in Atlanta "He provided an insight into the problem that I hadn't thought of before" said Chief Chabries "The concept of working through the parents s of these or bringing parents together as a council I hope someday to bring him back because I think it served to increase aware- 1 '441111 grahr 4rf -- ' Gang Expert Earns Trust of Youths Police 60 ' ND i Nvn11"41 - VA VICroadirr 119Arni MILO 10101' 0 it 4 6 de64116 -- ak atm moCrav 'so e : : filt2taL mlomempm " " Imelda lir ': Trains Salt Lake Officers 60 Nab' 411171 4 00 Highest atr pollution figures JO( selected cities Source— Utah Health Dept 0 moderate: good 0 hazardunhealthful very unhealthful ous (02—ozone CO—carbon monoxide PA—RespiraPA Salt Lake City-- 20 ble particuiales Provo-- 33 COSI and Davis CountiCOOgden-- 22 es-42 OZ Utah County—II CO Weber County—II 9 40 - 411101 Nititgasio Wen Ail 4t0 i erbIllict 11 Expected Temperatures SAW 40 OikkOki - 44L“ 4 °mwrmMI ' ''" ' r d forecast for noon morvey unse ' ' - Special to The Tribune VERNAL — The driver of a double oil tanker was killed Saturday evening when his rig rolled after failing to negotiate a turn at an intersection east of Rand lett Uintah County The Utah Highway Patrol said an undetermined amount of crude oil spilled from a rupture in one of the two tankers but crews were able to prevent the oil from flowing into nearby Pelican Lake UHP Trooper Keith Squires identified the victim of the 5:30 pm rollover as Marion Grant Farley 50 Duchesne He was transporting a load of crude oil from a well east of Randlett to My ton Duchesne County for Steere Trucking Co a Dallas-basefirm with a terminal in Duchesne The accident occurred at the intersection of a county road and State Road 88 The victim was &Wing west A amtWeettat — t- - Double Oil Rig Rolls Kills Driver 50 After each sample arrives in the lab Joan will "spin" it down to separate the blood cells from the serum then run it through nine different tests to determine the blood type and test for unusual antibodies The ' '77- Today's Weather State Forecast - - 4" 4 cross-matchin- g represent lives" moist Pacific trough will move out of the state Monday A ridge of high pressure atoll will develop over Utah by Tuesday The forecast calls for &areas Mg clouds and showers in the north Monday with paitly cloudy skies and scattered showers In the south Tuesday MN be sunny and worm statewide Highs will be in the mid40s and 60s PAonday with lime in the 301 Tuesday's highs MI reach the mid-6O- s and 70s - - ír" to' If a person with one blood type were to receive blood from a person with another type the body might destroy the donor red cells leading to a severe possibly fatal reaction By adding different antibodies and antigens to the blood sample Joan determines the patient's blood type — 0 A B and AB positive or negative — then does additional tests to find out whether the patient's body will reject the transfused blood If the red blood cells clump togethtests with er during the donated blood then the patient cannot receive that blood type "What I do really is a mystery to a lot of people" admits Joan "People who come to the hospital don't usually see what goes on behind the scenes "Personally I find it enjoyable to work in the background on a technical basis If a person has been hit by a car I want to do everything I can to help them I can't be there to comfort them but I can give them the blood they need — the blood that can mean the difference between living and N THE '4' a lifill ESTIMATE 68 42 Oct 76 55 clay 10 50 fair $O 60 snny SO 60 pict 84 SO lair ALL WORK GUARANTEED BUTCHER CONCRETE RAISING CO Phone 968844 24 Hours A An Affordable Alternative to Concrete 11 Replacement A I |