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Southwest Washington Medical Center
first in region to use Lifenet monitors
Southwest Washington residents have a better chance of
surviving a heart attack through a new electronic system that allows paramedics
to transmit essential diagnostic information from the field directly to
emergency room physicians at Southwest Washington Medical Center.
Medtronic Lifenet RS monitors are being used by Clark
County Emergency Medical Services District 2, which covers most of Clark County,
to relay heart monitoring information to the medical center in order to prepare
emergency center personnel for arrival of a patient and deal with specific
symptoms.
The time required to get a patient to the cardiac cath
lab is being cut in half by this “early warning system,” according to
Lynn Wittwer, SWMC Emergency Center
physician.
American Medical Response, the county’s largest
contracted ambulance service, has already acquired some of the new devices. When
the new system is fully deployed, a total of twenty transmitting devices will be
in operation throughout the county.
Quartet for the End of Time offered
by Bravo! Vancouver Sunday
A multi-media concert,
Oliver Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of
Time, a musical depiction of the World War II Nazi concentration camps,
is being presented at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan 9, by Bravo! Vancouver in the St.
Joseph Catholic Church, 400 S Andresen Road.
Artistic director Michael
Kissinger will be conducting the Bravo! chamber musicians for the
20th-century piece based on the composer’s own experience as a prisoner-of-war.
Featured artists are
Ronald Paul, violin, Dale Tolliver,
cello, Maria Manzo, piano and Kissinger,
clarinet.
General admission is $12. For further information, call
696-4407.
County sets open house to discuss
proposed environmental ordinances
An open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, in the
Dollars Corner Fire Station, 21609 NE 72nd Avenue, will offer the public a
chance to learn about activities underway to update Clark County environmental
ordinances.
The county has begun updating ordinances that deal with
the Wetlands Inventory Project and the Critical Areas Ordinances Project, and a
strategy to address threatened salmon species.
Following the presentations, public comments will be
taken. For further information, call Clark County Community Development
Department spokesperson Gordy Euler,
397-2375,
extension 4968.
Author Eric Liu to discuss
mentoring at reception
Eric Liu, whose
most recent book, Guiding Lights, The People
Who lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life, has been named the official book
of National Mentoring Month, will discuss mentoring during a reception honoring
his work at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, in the Clark County Youth House, 1112
Columbia Street.
The reception is sponsored by the Clark County Mentoring
Round Table. For further information about the reception or about mentoring
programs in Clark County, call Sarah Kalinoski,
992-0211, or
Cathy Hackney,
992-0232.
YWCA orientation for volunteers
offers insight and preparation
The YWCA of Clark County is offering an orientation
program to give potential volunteers information about programs and how they can
have an impact on the local quality of life at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, in the
Helen Schoen Center, 3609 Main Street.
Follow-up training will be offered volunteers during
January and February.
Adult volunteers are needed in four critical categories,
according to YWCA spokesperson Al Flory:
Court Appointed Special Advocates, Sexual Assault Victim Advocates, Independent
Living Skills Mentors, and Support Group Facilitators for the SafeChoice
Domestic Violence Program.
For further information, call Flory at
696-0167.
Ignoramus fixes
Insider
e-mail glitch
The ignoramus is being given too much credit. His son
Tony Bacon III actually fixed the e-mail
glitch.
It wasn’t an ordinary glitch either, more of a gritch
glitch or even a glutch.
Because Comcast quit forwarding attbi.com e-mails to
comcast.net addresses in 2005, Daily Insider
incoming e-mails quit arriving about 2:30 p.m. yesterday. The ignoramus didn’t
know he was to have modified his e-mail program.
The glitch didn’t affect transmission to
Insider subscribers, since the outgoing
e-mail worked just fine. However, it is getting pretty lonely around here not
receiving news releases, complaints, corrections and sassy notes.
The ignoramus’s e-mail is working just fine now, so keep
those news releases and notes coming. The address is
tony@dailyinsider.info.
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