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Show V I nospital this size in the area," Vender Steen said. Inter-mounta- in Brigham City. Utah Thursday, July 1 5, 1 976 BOX ELDER JOURNAL. CarcBoecapa Heart beat, a chief indicator of the patient's condition,- - is electronically monitored at all times by the operating rooms' Modem, sophisticated cardioscopes. These modem Surgical area well equipped, amongst finest Brigham City Community hospital will house some of the most modern medical facilities available and none newer or more sophisticated than those tor surgery. Cooley Memorial hospital, which has served the Brigham City community since May 1935, will close with the opening of .Brigham City Community hospital. Registered Nurse Ray Vender Steen, operating room supervisor, said the hospital is equipped to handle almost any type of operation "up until open heart surgery." The physical setting of the operating area alone is evidence of the hospitals surgical capabilities. Two operating rooms, a recovery room and a delivery room provide for all facets of surgical care. Housed in this setting is some of the "finest equipment of any devices allow doctors and technicians to determine what the heart is doing "in picture form" as an electronic beam crosses their screens. Vender Steen said. The lights also are designed to provide doctors with a better understanding of the patients condition. Suspended from the ceiling, they can be adjusted by doctors or medical technicians to give the fullest amount of light to any area of the body. . Outlets for the gases used in Vander Steen explained that tor an operation are prepared before hand. But if something unexpected should happen the device makes any needed instrument instantly available. Once out of the operating room, the patient will be taken to the recovery room where, too, his condition will be monitored by modern equipment. Vital signs are monitored there 24 hours a day until the patient can be returned to his room, Vander Steen said. The delivery room is equipped with similar equipment. all instruments needed possible, Vander Steen said. To prepare the patient phy- off-whi- te scrubbing solution. The operating team consists of Vander Steen end another with registered nurse who along t, him specializes as an anesthes-tisSelma Oberg. And Amy Jordan and Evelyn Larsen, both to prevent a "stark herself to the Vander Steen said. glare, Vander Steen patient. This, said, helps eliminate the an- But warm place ' xiousness felt by patients when Despite the cold Image most they enter the operating room have of the OR. it is actually and are greeted by people wear- - well heated from the table to the trained in operating roo procedures along with Lorene North, a practical nurse wd two operating room technicians, Elaine Barnes and Nancy Hunsidier. ing space-lik- e garb. Even the conversation and sically, the operating team color of paint in the room are studies every aspect of the concerned with the patients comfort. The talk is calm and at patients condition. low volume to relax the patient To prepare him mentally, each member of the team intro- and the wall coloring is duces him-o- registered nurses specially r Proximity The close proximity of the three rooms is another advantage of the new hospital, the nurse said. If anything should go wrong in either the recovery or delivery an operation are also con- rooms, patients need only be veniently suspended from the wheeled through a door to the ceiling for quick and unclutter- operating room. ed use. Important also to the care of The operating tables and in- emergencies is the facilitys struments are also the most communication system. In sophisticated of those in use event of any emergency,' key today, Vander Steen said. personnel can be summoned and informed of the emerSterilization gency's nature by a push of a Sterilization of instruments, button. It may not be the best comwhich once took from 45 minutes to an hour to perform, parison, Vander Steen said, can be done in three minutes by "But an operating room is like the operating rooms' auto the house of the Lord. You're claves. acutally taking the life of a , human being in your hands. Everything must be perfect." I'm&ktiv . Not cold place He said most people have the image of the operating room as a cold and uncomfortable place. The hospital, recognizing this, plans to prepare the patient for the most comfortable operation operating room supervisor at the Brigham City Community hospital, adjusts an operating light, one of many modern instruments housed in the hospitals two , operating rooms. RAY VANDER STEEN, V-- 5, , ", ' : r THIS IS tHE laboratory at the new Brigham City Community hospital. It features the most modern equipment ifef and will be seen by those attending an open house at the hospital Saturday afternoon. - ' . l'k .1 'v " ? c'ys A", Hi LANCSCAPING AT the new hosDtal saw the front lawn prea sodded so that it could be readly and present a pleasing appearance for the facility's dedication and opening. Other areas of the grounds will be seeded grass. in BANK 6f BRIGHAM CITY Brigham City Community Hospital A Presents - CASH REBATE UPON COMPLETION OF YOUR LOAN Borrow for a car, recreational vehicle, home im- provement or , other needs and receive CASH: of the interest paid on the loan. BACK, worth 5 CHECKING You get FREE SERVICE, regardless of balance and our rates are as low as you wilMind. And, now you also get .. . are a great asset to our Community. 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