Show lads Unit a lot thoracic and surgery at the if of Maryland and I resident of the only facility that is used ment and study of I COWLEY trauma unit in a five story was designed for the care They are out of 10 ild be dead if for the The unit has ily about three admitted about se Cowley be dead if ir the 12 beds TS in the treaties call trauma Little it and almost has been to ich year kill persons try and is the of death among 37 years of fourth cancer says the of Health list one-half of one of Its budget on actor has confidence jk day he can save nf 40 percent of peats who now are Tto the shock and mil only to These saved simply now got to find says the changes in Department Policy Pentagon to with the or the study of research is Cowley's has met with H. Cole deputy President and J. Glenn Beall to explain the unit and the need in P floor of the center houses the tin the The is largely the and ks its fixtures and ms with that compares to an Scare facility about fc-the intensive care to a stand-Jual The all those things citizen thinks in any emer-fP but Cowley said that an accident victim taken to a hospital emergency room is most likely to be seen by the least experienced house staff the during a period when time is of the essence and ripe clinical judgment is essential for his even he is taken from the scene of the accident to the nearest hospital emergency room where there may not be a physician on duty and one must be Under Cowley's supervision two state police helicopters have been equipped as two litter ambulances and their crews have received intensive medical In the event of traffic accidents the helicopter is summoned by the first state police trooper at the By the time the helicopter has the accident to the hospital a team of physicians is in the treatment center to see WHEN THE unit first opened about 67 percent of the head injury patients Researchers found the patients weren't dying of head injuries but by the metabolic problems triggered by the head Research also taught trauma teams how to maintain the crucial balances despite keep them in fluid and electrolyte balances and keep the blood gases said can keep people in the normal just like you or except darned near PHYSICIANS have learned to combat deadly gas gangrene through research with high pressure Cowley and his researchers have discovered they can put gas gangrene patients in a large pressure chamber forcing oxygen into the bloodstream and killing the gangrene Gas gangrene grows only without Cowley has outlined a plan which calls for dividing Maryland into seven separate trauma with one or two hospitals in each Such a he could reduce the number of accidental deaths in the state by one-half in two As for the University Cowley hopes to eventually expand the unit into an eight story COWLEY is one of five son of W. W. N. Main in He attended schools in Layton and graduated from Davis High School in He then entered the University of Utah in Salt Lake kp |