Mexican Jumping Flu Hits My Classroom!
A student collapsed today while giving a presentation in one of my classrooms. I did not see it happen, and by the time the instructor came out to inform me of the student lying prone on my floor, an ambulance and the campus security service had already been called. Response time? About 7 or 8 minutes for the fire department, less than 2 minutes for campus police. I was impressed. When they told me that the ambulance was coming, I was out the door waiting for them to arrive. I was going to wave them through the right doors and quickest stairwells. I watched the campus security force pull up, open gated parking lots, secure a fairly direct path to the student. They made barriers disappear fairly quickly.
While what was described to me was a seizure, the FD thought that it was a diabetic episode. I figure if nobody yells, "Stat!" things are generally OK.
HJ
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2 comments:
Why exactly was the fire department called for the collapse of a student?
(ok i know the answer, but it's still crazy for a foreigner like me)
It's OK, foreigner. (heehee) The truck the firemen pulled up in was unlike any emergency vehicle I had seen. Imagine a cross between a van and a full-sized firetruck. It was slightly smaller and svelter than a firetruck, it did not have hoses or ladders that I saw, and it looked like it would primarily be used to carry equipment. 4 guys hopped out. I did not see the ambulance but it could have been either a fire department vehicle or a private ambulance service (I think they contract w/hospitals).
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