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Show Ambulance Critical Care Unit continuing course of quality emergency medical care. Along with paramedical training, the possibility of mobile intensive care training for registered nurses is being evaluated. Such a course would offer to the registered nurse, advanced ad-vanced training in critical care monitoring at the scene, enroute to the hospital, and in the hospital emergency room. This type of training would provide a consistency of care for all patients involved in ambulance transport to the hospital. With the addition of the new high top van on September 15th as a backup back-up emergency vehicle, the critical care transfer unit will be readily available for use. Anyone requiring immediate medical attention should call directly to the hospital at 586-6587 and state that the amublance resuscitative team is needed. If community members would like any further information, please contact Susan Tysom at the Valley View Medical Center. The critical care transfer unit has been prepared for use by the Iron County Ambulance Service. It provides for skilled monitoring of cardiac, shock-trauma victims and others needing extensive monitoring. For the first time in Iron County, we now have the capability of a medical resuscitative team functioning outside out-side of the hospital. The ambulance is equipped with cardiac monitoring equipment, intravenous in-travenous fluid solutions and related cardiac and emergency resuscitative medications. When called to your home for any other type of emergency situation, nursing and emergency medical technician personnel, staffing staf-fing the ambulance, can begin immediate im-mediate treatment. Funding for a paramedic program in southern Utah will not be available during 1978. State representatives have indicated that grant monies were not approved for southeastern and southwestern Utah. Reapplication for this funding will be made in January of 1979. If approved, ap-proved, training would be completed in Iron County through Southern Utah State College and with the cooperation of Valley View Me'dical Center medical and nursing staff. This type of program with eye level training would offer Iron County a |