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The Davie County Hospital employees and medical staff conducted a disaster rehearsal Wednesday, December 3. 1969. They were assisted by the Mocksville Police Department and the Davie County Amubtance Service. Also assisting, by playing the role of the injured, were fourteen members of the Health Occupations Classes of Mrs. Kate Wilson from Davie County High School. A rehearsal to care for disaster victims, the plan was called into effect at 1:00 P. M. to receive fifteen to twenty patients from a bus accident. No information was given in the telephone report other than people at the scene included police and ambulance personnel, and the location. Student "Patients'" arrived at the hospital Mwl realistically to resemble bums, abrasions, shock, fractures, lacerations, head injuries, and other injuries of varying deyees. The imagination of two "Victims" included foreign objects protruding from the site of injury and another, a maternity patient with injuries. Physicians arrived from their offices when summoned, and were assisted in the drill by employees from all departments of the hospital, each carrying out predetermined assignments according to the hospital's written disaster plan. A sorting area was quickly provided at the emergency entrance for sorting and routing victims, undar die dwrtium of the chief of staff. Treatment ante gB ■ J|l Jwe Draughn being treated by Dr. Richerds and Mrs. Betty Monsees in the X-Ray department. June's injuries a compound fracture of the left arm and foreighn body in the right leg. A turkey bone extending from catsup covered clay gave the effects of compound fracture. A tin can top embeded in clay and catsup made a realistic foreign body of the leg. ■ ■ HT mSBm V fIU iH .^■^l jflr JM H mtm Rita Boger being checked by Dr. Slate. Nurses aids Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Orrell are assisting/ Rita's injury was compound fracture of the right leg, with massive bleeding. Red day, a turkey breast bone, catsup and a detergent bottle filled with cake coloring with tubing extending from the bottle to the fracture gave a realistic version of bones protruding through the skin and arterial bleeding. ■| mam ■ ' hb ■H B ■r Hindi Ooes Misled into Treatment Room by ambulance attendant Mr. Carter and being admitted by Miss Foster. Rehearsal For Disaster included a shock and trauma station, an emergency surgery, a blood donor area and a morgue. Each received oatients transported by a transportation team from the sortiiig area. Hospital licensing and accrediting agencies now require periodic rehearsals of disaster olans, so that health care institutions, through practice, will be prepared to care for mass casualties. With a number of larger industries located in our area and the heavily traveled highways throughout the county, it is important that our hospital be prepared to care for a large number of accident victims. The administrator of the hosoital exnressed his appreciation to all who cooperated with, and who participated in the drill. He termed the rehearsal as being very successful and one which provided an exceptional learning experience for all participants. The disaster practice gave the Health Occuoation , students an opprotunity to see the first hand application cf emergency first aid and the orooer placement in the various departments for treatment of their imaginary injuries. It also gave the student an oooortuiity to see how vitally important each member of the health team is in the face of disaster. Many of the ideas for the students imaginary injuries came from a course in emergency first aid which the girls had in their first year of Health Occupations. m nMHHHnnnHBr' EtM WMmm bainf pronounced Dead On AitM by Or. Lony. BIG M & M SALE MUSTANG AND MAVERICK 1970 FORD MAVERICK BUY OR TRADE FOR A MUSTANG OR MAVERICK BEFORE JANUARY Ist. AND WE WILL PAY YOUR PROPERTY TAX ON THAT UNIT. (ALL OF THE PROPERTY TAX ON THE UNIT IN A STRAIGHT SALE ... OR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO UNITS ON A TRADE IN LIMITED TO OAVIE COUNTY RESIDENTS ONLY . . nAaoTWaNDYWETI I All Children, accompanied by parents, visiting | | oar show room between ROW and Christmas. 1 REAVIS FORD INC. Yodkimwille Highway Hochsvlllo, N.C. DAVIE HISTORY #M copies at ibe book "History of Davie County", written by boon sold. Mora copies wo being bound and are expected to be here by lets December or earty in for meilinf die books are available at the Library. Snappy, witty horoscope tips from housewife To her neighbors in Sleepy Hollow, a hamlet near Dundee, 111., Mrs. Patsy Milligan is a petite blonde housewife proeai cally taking care of her husband and their eight children in a suburban home. But to thousands of weekly newspaper readers she is Olga, the seeress who consults the stars and translates their mes sages into horoscopes. She is on a different wave length from her fellow practitioners in that mystic art. The emanations transmitted to Olga from the constellations as they swing about the firmament, plotting the destination of mortals, are off-beat—sometimes humorous, sometimes caustic. "Oh Sag," she tells the Sagi tarians bluntly during one zodiacal period, "you do so drib ble away the day daydreaming. You call it thinking creatively, but you don't fool many people." In an intimate note to the Scorpios she confides, "Usually you consider the bedroom more important than the kitchen." During an abrasive phase of the stars when the gentle Libras were likely to blow their stacks she advised: "Although you are normally peace loving, on the last two days of the week things could go to hell in a hand basket 13
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