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Tuesday, October 22. 1974
University Dallv Kansan
Doctor's ideas aid racing
By PAULA JOLLY
Kansas City Reporter
During the last days of October, Norman McSwain Jr., the director of emergency medical training at the KU Medical Center, will pack his bags and travel to the Road Race of Charmions near Atlanta.
Mekwin won't be there just to enjoy the race. As chief race physician, his job will be to patch up any drivers who are injured
He will head a medical staff of about 35 people at the race, which is the national championship amateur sports car race. It
A race track is run on a track that has many curves and turns, as opposed to the oval track used in other types of auto racing.
When he isn't acting as a race physician, McSwan said, he works on ways to make road raiser safer and to keep race workers safe.
McMain recently said that a major racing problem was that of a driver, trapped or unconscious inside a burning car.
In this situation, the person who usually reaches the driver first is a corner worker. McSwain said.
A corner worker is a race staff member who stands near an arc or wall and reports the progress of the race to the race central center.
M@sain was one of the originators of the "crash and burn" schools, which train corner workers to handle crash situations.
While he was the chief race physician for a track near Atlanta, he and a friend came up with the idea for the school. McMain said they were concerned because most corner workers knew little about extinguishing fires and first aid.
"It just evolved that we were going to design a school to train them," he said.
The "crash and burn" school is conducted for a weekday.
On Saturday morning, the corner workers learn the theory of fire and how to put it out. That afternoon is spent putting out fires in cars.
"They learn how it actually feels to have a fire burning in their faces," McSwain said.
The Saturday night session is devoted to an American Heart Association course, on cardio-ultrasonics resuscitation.
Association course on cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation involves intermittent
mouth-to-mouth respiration and closed-chest heart massage.
Sunday morning is filled with lectures on first aid and extrication of a person from a wrecked car. That afternoon is devoted to practice the techniques learned in the morning.
"So in one weekend," McSain said, "people are at least exposed to this stuff. They may not be the best trained in the field."
McWain said there were several recent developments in racing safety.
"On race tracks, you've got two things to consider," he said. You've got to protect the spectators from the car, but you don't want the cars to do that.
He said typical highway barriers weren't adequate for acing his high speeds.
McMain said a race driver should learn to fold his arms close to the body or grasp the bottom of the steering wheel during an accident. A driver should get his feet up on the floorboard, so his knees are twisted. He should duck his head forward to avoid skid injury.
As a Result, the motor racing Safety Society is sponsoring a contest for engineers to design a better barrier, McSwain said. According to McSwain, a car driver can avoid injury during a crash if he learns how to react in an accident.
McSwain mentioned several things that were being done to increase the efficiency of crash rescue operations. These include tighter regulations on the type of rescue equipment needed at a race track and a more efficient backboard.
A backboard is put behind a driver who possibly has a broken back or neck, to prevent the severing of the spinal cord as the driver falls.
McStain views auto racing as a "high speed laboratory" for auto safety devices.
"For example," he said, "roll bars, an increase in the strength of car tops and door frames, seat belts—all of these came from auto racing. What's incorporated into sports car racing today will be found in street cars in five to 10 years."
Space shortage cramps offices
A shortage of office space at the University of Kansas is hampering the operations of the KU Endowment Association and security and parking.
"We're just so cramped up here," Mile Thomas, director of security and parking, said yesterday, referring to the departing present quarters in Hoch Auditorium.
Todd Seymour, executive secretary of the Endowment Association, said yesterday the association was overstaffed and crowded into its present offices.
Seymour said the west campus building probably wouldn't be available until the two months after the war.
Seymour the association had made a request to move to a building on the west campus as soon as it was available. The student is presently used by engineering students.
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