Vackar Stadium Emergency Action Plan

Emergency Personnel
A certified athletic trainer (ATC) will be present during all practices, football related events, and games. Athletic training student(s) certified in basic life support will be available to assist the ATC as needed.
 
Emergency Communication
  1. ATC and athletic training students will carry a personal cellular device at all practices, football related events, and games.
  2. ATC(s) and athletic training students will carry radio communication devices at all practices, football related events, and games.
  3. Activate EMS dialing 9-1-1.
 
Emergency Equipment
 
Home Sideline
Sideline emergency equipment will be located along the length of the home team sideline, on the west side of the stadium. The emergency cold plunge tub will be on the north 20-yard line. A golf cart equipped to transport an injured athlete will be located on the along the northwest wall of the field. The golf cart will have the keys in the ignition at all times.
  • Injury Tent
  • AED
  • Spine Board
  • Splint Bag
  • Crutches
  • Polar pod(s)
  • Intravenous Therapy Supplies
  • Emergency Cold Plunge Tub
 
Opposing Sideline
Additional emergency equipment will be located along the length of the opposing team sideline, on the east side of the stadium. The emergency cold plunge tub will be on the north 20 yd line.
  • AED
  • Polar pod
  • Spine Board
  • Splint Bag
  • Emergency Cold Plunge Tub
 
Game Day Roles of EMS and First Responders
Location
  1. The on-field Med Care EMS ambulance #1 will be located on the southeast corner near the gate that leads onto the field.
  2. The spectator and concourse Med Care EMS ambulance #2 will be located on the southeast corner near the gate that leads onto the field.
Processes
  1. Activation of Golf Cart Transport by ARMS RAISE STRAIGHT TO THE SIDE.
  2. Activation of UTRGV Team Physician to Field by SINGLE RAISED FIST.
  3. Activation of EMS by signal of RAISED ARMS CROSSED FORMING AN X.
  4. EMS proceeds to the field location of the student-athlete or faculty/staff member.
  5. Immediate care of the injured student-athlete or faculty/staff member.
  6. Emergency equipment will be retrieved from the home team sideline by ATC or athletic training student(s) not directly assisting with the student athlete or faculty/staff member.
  7. EMS will proceed to DHR Medical Campus on 5502 S McColl RD, Edinburg 78539 for C-Spine, Cardiology, and Neurological related events or Rio Grande Regional Hospital ER on 101 E Ridge RD, McAllen 78503 for orthopedic related events.
 
Practice or Football Related Event Roles of EMS and First Responders
  1. Immediate care of the injured student-athlete or faculty/staff member
  2. Activate emergency medical system (EMS) by dialing 9-1-1from personal cellular device.
  3. Provide:
    1. Name, location, telephone number of caller
      • Vackar Stadium, 1616 S Raul Longoria Rd., Edinburg, TX 78542
    2. Nature of emergency
    3. Number of patients involved
    4. Condition of patient(s)
    5. First aid treatment initiated by first responder 
    6. Specific directions as needed to locate the emergency scene
    7. Gather information as requested by dispatcher do not hang up until told by the dispatcher
  4. Emergency equipment retrieval from on field sideline equipment and/or Vackar Stadium sports medicine facility.
  5. Direction of EMS to scene
    1. Designate individual(s) to wait at south parking lot to “flag down” EMS and direct them to the southeast corner field entrance and to student-athlete or faculty/staff member location.
    2. Scene control: limit scene to first aid providers and move bystanders away from area. 

Lightning Shelter
 
If lightning should strike within the Southland Conference lightning policy radius of eight miles, practice, football related event, or game will be postponed and all student athletes, coaches, and university faculty/staff, must seek shelter until all clear is given. Student athletes of each team will shelter in their team locker room and commons area, coaches will shelter in offices, team locker room, and/or commons area, and university facility/staff will shelter in sports medicine area and/or commons area. Spectators will shelter in their vehicle and will not be allowed to shelter in tunnels beneath the stadium. All clear will be given jointly, by the overseeing ATC and event management staff. UTRGV Sports Medicine and Facilities Management will monitor lightning and weather with Perry Weather services and alerts.

Emergency Access Map

A map showing the emergency action plan locations for Vackar Stadium
 
Emergency Contacts
Shane Venteicher
Paulina Torres
Valeria Gonzalez		 Cell: (712) 292-9135
Cell: (956) 690-9237
Cell: (956) 332-7744		 Office: (956) 665-8089
Office: (956) 665-8087
Office: (956) 665-8089