Show Hospital Equipment t Featured This Week tit t i Gyp k r 4 k i A i a t Beulah Willoughby of the Summit County Hospital demonstrates use of the airlock lock a very important part of the equipment at the hospital as a feature of Know Your County Government week The Summit County Hospital is owned and maintained by Summit Summit Sum Sum- mit County It is operated on a tax levy which is raised and lowered according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the amount ot of earn earnings lugs ings from the hospital For this reason we nee the support of all the people of SummIt Summit County o In a hospital tl there ere is IG a great amount of overhead The hospital has to tobe ba staffed over staffed over a 24 hour dy day whether there is one p patient tl mt or ten There are drugs dressings linen food and many other supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies which have to be purchased and in readiness at all times for whatever emergency or illness may way come to our doors We strive to maintain goo good service and care and invite ev eve everyone to come and visit our facilities facUlties The Oxygen Alp Pressure Lock I The rue oxygen Air Pressure IX Lock CK is designed for the rapid resuscitation resuscitation resuscitation citation and oxygenation of the asphyxiated new born infant At the present time tune there la to much to be desired in the re reo resuscitation of the new born in fant rant Many of the leading hospitals hospi tale now make a regular practice of routinely placing every new newborn newborn newburn born burn infant within the lock If only for a period of ot a few min utes This mechanism provides the infant with heat heat humidity lack of handling and oxygen and carboa carbon car car- bon boa dioxide pressure gradients for fol the favorable handling of ot th those those se games In addition the expansion expansion ex ex- pa alon of gasses Is utilized utilised for forthe forthe forthe the expression of fluids and secretions se seI secretions se- se I from from the pulmonary tract The Lock la le maintained at a temperature of 90 degrees F. F The oxygen inlet flow is set at six aix liters per minute Full FuJI term infants may usually be bt removed from the lock after 30 to 60 minutes Premature infant Infanta Infante may require I its ita use for many days or weeks They may be maintained under I its Us care without the necessity of fluids for many hours After the br breathing l is stabilized the premature premature pre pro mature infant may then be taken out for feeding and care and then put back inside We have saved the lives of several full term babies by byes es establishing establishing es- es their breathing and two or three premature babies have been saved savell If It but only one life me had bad been saved It would have been well worth its cost coat |