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Show Shoirv Serrra syirgeiry gefls you home quidx At the hospital in the morning for cataract operation and back home the same day. Is it possible? If you ask Mildred Hicks that question ques-tion the answer would be "yes." Last Friday at 7 a.m. Mrs. Hicks ent to the Ashley Valley Medicul Center for a cataract operation. For several years no light had entered her eft eye because it was totally blinded from the cataract. Mrs. Hicks was met at the hospital by Pat Tadish, R.N. and director of a new surgical approach implement at the medical center last November. With the new program, short stay surgery, a patient can return home within four hours after minor surgery. "The short stay surgery program is a less expensive than regular surgery and is more personnel," Mrs. Tadish said. Preliminary paper work is already taken cure of before a patient comes to the hospital for surgery. During their time at the hospital they are observed by a special nurse who monitors their vital signs and with the doctor's consent, con-sent, the patients are released usually the same day. Such was the case with Mrs. Hicks. By 8 a.m. she was ready for surgery and moved into the operating room. A newly purchased microscope aided Dr. Modest Bodner of Salt Lake City remove the cataract. He was assisted by Marlene Andreason, UN, and Marilyn Gardiner, LPN. "I kept waiting for the pain, but I never felt it," Mrs. Hicks said after her operation. The cataract surgery was the first for the Ashley Valley Medical Center. Cataract operations were performed by Dr. Bodner six years ago in the old Uintah Uin-tah County Hospital. Mrs. Hicks was wheeled out of the operating room by 11 a.m. and into a special recovery room and to another room in the main hospital for short stay patients. At 2 p.m. she was allowed to leave. "If only I could see a ray of light through this eye it would be worth it," she said. Whether or not Mrs. Hicks will see in her left eye, she said she didn't know, but she hoped so. She also suffers from glacoma which could have also affected her vision, she said. I I I : l A - i i i i i I i' " i U .... r. J X L iJ i I ! I ' j .. j j " ' . ! ' i I ' V t ! ! !, ..... i "" ' A special microscope is used by Dr. Modest Bodner during cataract operation, (above) Marlene Andreason, EN, helps clean eye before the operation, (left) Marilyn Gardiner.assists during operation, (below) Eye is held open by clamp during operation, (left) Cataract is extracted, (far' left) Pat Tadish, FIN and Marilyn Gardiner transfer Mrs. Hicks to short stay room, (bottom left) r V ' ... V .' ' ... . - i v ' " ' " ,- -7' - : " v v ' f, . '! '.!(' ...'fi., ,- |
