Indoor Track and Field and Tennis Venue - Emergency Action Plan 

Venue Map

Emergency Personnel: First aid supplies (athletic trainers’ kit, body substance isolation (BSI) bag, breathing devices, vacuum splints, spine board, and crutches). Breathing devices, spine board and crutches are kept in the storage closet in the Northwest corner of the Field House when not in use. An AED is stationed in an alarmed cabinet in the lobby of the Costello Sports Complex. It is located at the rear of the lobby near the restrooms and adjacent to the fire extinguisher. Another AED is located over the counter in the lobby of the USM Ice Arena.

Emergency Communication: Portable two-way radio. A payphone is located inside the front doors of the main lobby of Costello Sports Complex next to the elevator.

Emergency Equipment: First aid supplies (athletic trainers' kit, body substance isolation (BSI) bag, breathing devices, vacuum splints, spine board, and crutches). Breathing devices, spine board and crutches are kept in the storage closet in the Northwest corner of the Field House when not in use.

Roles of Emergency Care Team Members

1. Immediate care of the injured/ill student-athlete: Follow appropriate first aid principles (See Injury/Illness Emergency Protocol sheet included with this Emergency Action Plan).
2. Emergency equipment retrieval: Appropriate to the emergency
3. Activation of emergency medical system (EMS) by calling University Police dispatch at 911 or Channel 2 on the portable two-way radio. Provide them with the following information:
   
   1. Identify yourself and your role in the emergency
   2. Specify your location and telephone number (if calling by phone)
   3. Give name(s) of injured/ill individual(s)
   4. Condition of victim(s)
   5. Time of the incident
   6. Care being provided
   7. Give specific directions to the scene of the emergency
   Direction of EMS to the scene
   
   1. Assist University Police with directing EMS to scene
   2. Open appropriate gates
   3. Designate individual to "flag down" EMS and direct to scene
   4. Scene control: keep non-emergency medical team members away from the scene
      
      

Venue Directions: The field house is located on the East-end of the Costello Sports Complex nearest the Brooks Dining Center. Approach campus via School Street, left on Campus Avenue, the Field House of the Costello Sports Complex is straight ahead.

1. To access the East end of the Field House continue on Campus Avenue until you are at the Southeast corner of the building (near Brooks Dining Hall) and then back the rescue unit up the ramp to the series of blue double doors.
2. To access the West end of the Field House take a right off of Campus Avenue onto University Way, go through the gated fence (toward the Central Heating and Sewerage Plants) and turn up the ramp to your immediate left. Turn around at the top and back up to the garage door opening on the West end of Field House.