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IMPACT: BOWIE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ‘Golden Hour’ will deteriorate when patients must travel further for care
Editor’s note: IMPACT is an ongoing series exploring the consequences the possible closure of Bowie Memorial Hospital could mean for the community and county.
This is part two of a story on the Bowie Ambulance Service. It focuses on the medical services provided by the EMTs and how time plays a vital role in that care. Without a local hospital available to send a patient, the “golden hour” for a trauma event could be jeopardized.
Doctors often call the first hour after a traumatic or medical event as the “golden hour,” the time where the event can be treated with the most positive results.
Dr. Surinder Aujla has served as medical director for Bowie Ambulance Service since 1985, when he and a few others organized a training schedule for the service moving it from “load-and-run” to more sophisticated care.
“The ambulance service was upgraded and is now state-of-the-art. They treat and stabilize in the field, which has resulted in an increased quality of care and the number of lives being saved,” said the director.
The “golden hour” term comes from the military battlefield, where it was determined those stabilized within one hour had a much better outcome.
Aujla said nothing has changed. Read the full news feature in the mid-week News.
Pictured above: Last May, Bowie ambulance personnel rushed an injured city worker to an ambulance and then a helicopter after he was crushed while working inside a fiberglass tank. Firefighters worked diligently to extricate the man from inside the tank, while trying to care for his medical needs as much as possible. (Photo by Barbara Green)
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Montague County Commissioners had a short meeting Monday.
After installing some new filing systems in the district clerk’s offices, the county appears to have an overflow of filing cabinets. Thanks in part to electronic recording of many records and the mechanized filing in the district clerk’s office, the need for metal filing cabinets has waned.
Commissioner Mark Murphey, who also runs an auction company, said you can barely give them away nowadays, while Commissioner Mike Mayfield said they may make more by salvaging them to a metal recycler. Commissioner Roy Darden said it would probably cost more to advertise an auction than what they could make on selling them.
County Auditor Jennifer Essary said they can auction, salvage or take sealed bids for the items. Commissioners decided to scrap them, but be open to anyone picking up any as they load them up for salvage.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
The following felony cases were returned by the Montague County Grand Jury during its November session last week.
According to the 97th District Attorney Katie Boggeman, of the 18 cases three received no bills and two were sealed awaiting arrest of the suspect.
The sealed cases include charges of possession of a controlled substance 4-200 grams and tampering with an electronic monitoring device.
The grand jury determined there was insufficient evidence to warrant indictment resulting in no bills on a charge of possession of child pornography and online solicitation of a minor against the same person.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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