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doctor's ! C .FIRST AID TU-rCAWCfZ) .; DR. E. PAYNE PALMER re moved his surgical apron slowly, hardly conscious of the gesture. He was deep In thought Life to Dr. Palmer Is very Im portant; he has dedicated his own life to the saving of others and he had Just turned from the op erating room where the victim of an accident had passed beyond human aid. So many victims so many lives lost because first aid had been too far away! Dr. Palmer Is one of the Fellows of the American College of Surgeons, and president of the staff of St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Ari zona. Much of his work is done on the Great American Desert, and here he has grown to bo one of the most Important surgeons of the West. Turning from the death of a victim, he decided that something should be done, and accordingly went to the American College of Surgeons With the suggestion that first-aid stations should be placed all over the United States. 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Then the American Red Cross followed with their approval so today Dr. Palmer is rewarded by the assurance that by July there will be more than 1000 first aid stations throughout the nation.- Backed by an organization net working the nation which has already trained 1,000,000 persons in first aid and accorded practi- ' cal, lasting help to millions of disaster sufferers, the Red Cross has sot machinery In motion to establish 18,000 highway first-aid ' stations throughout the country ' in the near future and to provide motorized first-aid highway pa trols. IT IS Dr. Palmer's contention that thousands of people now undergo unnecessary suffering, have their Injuries complicated by improper handling, and even die for the want of simple emer gency help, because of the re moteness of many accidents from medical aid. Having served the desert folk, he should know The surgeon suggests that even Realized In Highway First Aid private citizens should be trained to act as volunteer workers, to be given charge of these stations. "We are spending millions in im proving our highways and more millions in buying machines with greater speed and power. It ia a deadly combination," said Dr.. Palmer. "During the year 1934, there were 53,000 deaths in pub lic accidents. A million and a quarter people were injured in . automobile accidents alone. Many of these accidents occur in remote and lonely places whore there are no physicians, and no facilities for taking care of the Injured. Consequently before trained asi. sistance can be secured, prolonged suffering is bound to occur, to say They save lives through rendering highway first aid. Throughout the West, hundreds of units In the new life-saving service are being established and one man's .determination to do something about the appalling accident situation Is responsible. The man, Or. EPayne ' Palmer, Is shown below, teft la A. L. Schafer, Red Cross manager in the Pacific area, discussing with first-aid experts locations for proposed stations. Center, a highway marker, and right, Beagle's Station, 14 miles north of Vancouver, Washington. Left to right, J. A. Zlegler, A. L. Schafer, C. A. Beagle, B. B. Beagle, Dr. John Blair, Mrs. C. A. Beagle, Ralph E. Carlson and Harry Williams. nothing of the complications and sequelae which retard recovery, and the possible permanent de- formitles. In addition there is the ever-present possibility of delay proving fatal to the injured per son. "The first-aid committee of the American Red' Cross and the Re gional Committee of the College Bhould co-operate and train those selected to serve at these stations. An adequate training would be that provided in the American Red Cross regulations course of 15 hours' Instruction. Q Y WAY of equipment, each Jj station must keep on hand a sufficient quantity of first-aid sup plies such as is contained in the Red Cross kits; a blanket, wooden splints, a Thomas-Murry upper extremity splint, a Keller-Blake lower extremity splint, ' and a stretcher. There should be two or more persons trained In adminis tering first aid to the injured, and a fixed traction method of trans- ' portation available at all times at each station. Day and night serv- ice should be operative. If certain ' stations remain open only during the daytime, then they should dis play a sign giving location of the , nearest full-time station. "The airway first-aid stations should be established at emer gency landing fields as well as at established ports, as it is here that accidents are most apt to occur." The American Red Cross re ports that there are more than 100,000 crippling injuries and over a million temporarily disabling hurts each year, not to mention the fatalities which have mounted to more than 53,000. They re port also that during 1936 more than one-third of all Americans scheduled to die accidentally will hurry to meet death !ln an auto mobile unless motorists are made to realize the ultimate cost of carelessness unless intelligent first-aid service, available at the scene of accident, is provided to limit the extent of injuries and prevent manhandling by the well meaning. REPORTS from field workers already active- give an indi cation of the great good to be ' accomplished by ' these "first-aid stations. At one station, when two cars met head-on, the first aid attendant procured an ambu lance at once, covered the three injured and kept them quiet and fought off a passing unknown driver who stated he was a doc tor. The latter pushed forward to take the woman who had been in Stations jured to the hospital In his car, but was prevented from so doing by the station attendant, trained in Red Cross first aid. At the hos pital it later developed that the woman had broken a hip bone. The station attendant was told ( that he had prevented a much greater injury and perhaps saved a life by refusing to allow the woman to b moved until the am bulance' 'had arrived.- -I.,-. ... ... ' !( To assure- maximum availabil ity of first-aid care on--the high way, the Red Cross"'is enlisting the co-operation of pubfic utility companies ,in the formation- of mobile first-aid units. Fleets of trucks maintained by these com panies constantly patrol these roads, and the Red Cross pro gram calls for the Installation of first-aid equipment in each truck and comprehensive Instruction in its use by the truck's crew. ,
