Medical Emergency

Emergency Procedures

Emergency Medical Aid

Medical Emergency: Call 911

Immediate Assistance (on campus University Police) 911

Student Health Center (Non-Emergency) (360) 650-3400

Note: The Student Health Center is open when classes are in session:
MTWF 8:30a.m. - 4p.m. ; Th 9:30a.m. - 4p.m.

Provide first aid as your training allows. Washington State has a Good Samaritan Law. If an employee is involved in a medical emergency, whenever possible, notify the employee’s supervisor.

Students may contact the WWU Student Health Center when school is in session. 

In Case of Injury or Illness

  • Do not move the patient except to protect him/her from a dangerous situation.
  • If the patient has been contaminated by hazardous material, tell the emergency responder the name of the material involved and the potential hazards, if known. Provide a Safety Data Sheet, if possible. See also information for chemical spill under Hazardous Materials Incident.
  • Call 911.
  • Provide assistance as your training allows.
  • Keep the patient calm.
  • Stay with the patient until assistance arrives.
     

If patient is not breathing, use AED and provide CPR:

  1. Call 911.
    • Open airway using chin lift, head tilt technique.                        
    • Look, listen, feel for breathing (no more than 10 sec).
    • If breathing, protect airway and continue assessment.
  2. If the Patient Is Not Breathing, Perform CPR.
    • Provide continuous cycles of 30 compressions provider takes over.
  3. When AED arrives, use without delay
     
  4. Turn on Power.
    • Place the AED near the head of the patient.
    • Follow the verbal instructions from AED unit.
  5. Attach AED to Patient.
    • Bare the patient’s chest, prepare areas for the pads, and place the pads on the chest.
    • Do not move the patient during analysis by the AED.
  6. If Indicated by the AED, deliver a shock.
    • Clear yourself and others from the patient.
    • Push the shock button.
  7. Perform CPR.
    • Stop only if the AED instructs you to do so, the patient moves, or another provider takes over.

In Case of Choking

  1. Confirm Choking
    • Ask, “Are you choking?”
    • If the patient can speak or cough forcefully, they are not choking and do not require abdominal or chest thrusts.
  2. Position Yourself
    • Get behind the patient.
    • Put your arms around the patient’s waist.
    • Put your fists above the patient’s navel and below the ribs.
  3. Perform Abdominal Thrusts
    • Quickly thrust inward and upward.
    • Repeat until the airway is cleared.
    • If the patient is pregnant or obese, use chest thrusts instead. Put arms around patient’s chest. Thrust inward.
  4. If the Patient Becomes Unresponsive
    • Lower the person to the ground, call 911.
    • Perform CPR. Inspect the mouth for foreign material when attempting ventilations.
       

AED Locations

Mobile

  • Five University Police Cars
  • Four units for Athletics trainers.  When not at road games or practices, these are stored in the trainers’ area in CV155

ON CAMPUS LOCATIONS

  • Academic Instruction Center: Alarmed cabinet - East building, North main entrance, across from AIC248
  • Administrative Services Building C: Alarmed cabinet - 2nd floor, across from elevator, by entrance to 210
  • Arntzen Hall: Alarmed cabinet - near AH106
  • Biology: Alarmed cabinet - near BI234
  • Bond Hall: Alarmed cabinet - West entrance
  • Campus Services Facility: Student Health Center, CS231
  • Campus Services Facility: Student Health Center Annex, CS110, in emergency supplies cabinet
  • Carver Gym: Alarmed cabinet - 1st floor, main hallway, next to CV103
  • Carver Gym: Alarmed cabinet - 1st floor, Parberry weight room, CV105
  • Carver Gym: 1st floor, CV155A, #1
  • Carver Gym: 1st floor, CV155A, #2
  • Carver Gym: Alarmed cabinet - 1st floor, near entrance of CV181
  • Carver Gym: Alarmed cabinet - 3rd floor, outside CV 303
  • Chemistry: Alarmed cabinet - 2nd floor, East entrance
  • Communications: Alarmed cabinet - Main West entrance
  • Edens Hall: Alarmed cabinet - near EH 110
  • Engineering Technology: Alarmed cabinet - 1st floor main North entrance
  • Environmental Studies: Alarmed cabinet - 3rd floor, across skybridge near ES301
  • Fairhaven Academic: Alarmed cabinet - 2nd floor, main stairwell, next to main entrance to dining hall
  • Fairhaven Tower 11: Alarmed cabinet - Child Development Center
  • Fine Arts: Alarmed cabinet - across from FI 119
  • Fraser Hall: Alarmed cabinet - near FH102
  • Haggard Hall: Alarmed cabinet - near HH121
  • Harrington Field Multipurpose Building: MU104
  • Humanities: Alarmed cabinet - North main entrance
  • Miller Hall: Alarmed cabinet - near Southeast entrance and elevator.
  • Old Main: Alarmed cabinet - 2nd floor West entrance, near OM 279
  • Old Main: Alarmed cabinet - 3rd floor, near West entrance
  • Parks Hall: Alarmed cabinet - 1st floor, near restrooms
  • Performing Arts Center: Alarmed cabinet - main lobby
  • Physical Plant Building: Alarmed cabinet - near Sheet Metal Shop
  • Ridgeway Commons: Alarmed cabinet - in dining room entry, near Gold room
  • SMATE: Alarmed cabinet - South entrance, facing parking lot
  • Viking Commons: Alarmed cabinet - Across from cashier's desk
  • Viking Union: Under Information Desk
  • Wade King Student Rec Center: Alarmed cabinet - 2nd floor, top of stairs
  • Wilson Library: Alarmed cabinet - North entrance, near 281B

OFF CAMPUS LOCATIONS

  • Lakewood: Alarmed cabinet - in boathouse, behind main desk
  • Shannon Point Marine Center: Alarmed cabinet - Sundquist Lab
  • Shannon Point Marine Center: Alarmed cabinet - Dive Boat
  • SEA Discovery Center: in Poulsbo
     

Locations Current as of April 2026