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Show ; - v I v . 4 , t st-. I j I ,;' Clill . I . i ' It- " ' V - . n LIFE-SAVING DEVICE By GARY R. BLODGETT Bountiful's Lakeview Hospital Hos-pital has added something new to its emergency treatment treat-ment department. FOR THE first time in the past dozen years, since a hospital hos-pital was erected in South . Davis County, the hospital's emergency department will ; be staffed around the clock. "We have always had competent physicians on call . for emergency room duty, but . for the first time this depart-: depart-: ment will be staffed around the clock, seven days a week," said William P. Moore, hospital administrator. administra-tor. HEADING UP the emergency emer-gency department staff will be Dr. Robert Rothfeder, a tall native of New York City who has had much training and experience in emergency treatment. Other members of the full-time full-time emergency room group are Dr. Dennis Wyman and Dr. James Stinson, both of whom received postgraduate medical training at the University of Utah and Salt Lake's LDS Hospital. DR. Rothfeder is a 1973 graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed three years of internship in-ternship and residency at the LDS Hospital. 'The group's objective will be to provide the highest quality care for medical and surgical emergencies for this community and the south Davis area," said Dr. Roth-, feder. "WE ARE enthusiastic about working cooperatively with the excellent medical staff of the hospital, and feel that this hospital in general and the emergency depart- Yvonne Taylor, a registered nurse at Bountiful's Lakeview Hospital, assists Dr. Robert K. Rothfeder to demonstrate new hospital emergency emer-gency room equipment. Dr. Rothfeder is the hospital's new director of emergency department. The emergency room is now staffed around the clock. ment specifically are well equipped and well staffed." Dr. Rothfeder admitted that the emergency department depart-ment at Lakeview Hospital is "the finest I have ever worked in and I am thrilled at having the opportunity to serve here. "WE HAVE the equipment and facilities and now it's up to the physicians to carry out our duties," he said. Dr. Rothfeder said that although the emergency department will be staffed full-time, patients with problems that have existed for extended periods are encouraged en-couraged to contact their own private physicians. "IF AFTER emergency treatment, or if a patient has no local private physician, we will be willing to refer one," he said. Dr. Rothfeder added that the emergency department crew is also planning to work cooperatively with the local paramedics to establish and aid their job. "I THINK the paramedics are a fine group and can do much to aid a patient in the early stages of injury or illness," ill-ness," he said. 'Together we can have a fine working program." Dr. Rothfeder said full-time physician coverage of hospital hospi-tal emergency departments is relatively new. "IT BEGAN in this area in the 1960's, but only in a few hospitals," he said. "It wasn't until the early 1970s that many hospitals began full-time full-time physician coverage." Before this time, as was the case with Bountiful's South Davis and Lakeview Hospitals, Hospi-tals, emergency rooms were staffed by a large number of doctors "on call" during the off-duty hours. "BUT I look at emergency department care as important as any other department in the hospital. Many lives are saved and complications lessened les-sened with good emergency care," he said. He emphasized that other hospital staff physicians will be available for-multiple-in-jury accidents or whenever they are needed. DR. Rothfeder is also specially trained in cardiology, car-diology, intensive care medicine, and general surgery. sur-gery. All three emergency department physicians are members of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Lakeview Hospital emer-. gency operations will be under the direction of Dr. Lloyd R. Hicken, longtime local physician, who is chairman chair-man of the hospital's emergency emer-gency committee. |