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Show Doctors, Nurses, Qualify in Cardiac Life Support Five Utah Valley Hospital physicians and two nurses recently became certified instructors in-structors of the American Heart Association's advanced cardiac life support course. The seven hospital staffers can now teach the course to other UVH physicians, nurses and emergency personnel. Sherise .Gregerson, RN, Mary Ward, RN, and Drs. Tom Dwyer, Robert Gray and Wendell Gadd of the Emergency Center and Dr. Charles Dahl, . cardiologist and Dr. Klint Stander, heart surgeon, completed the three-day., course at Ogden's "McKay-Dee Hospjjal.' The Emergency Center now has six out of seen staffers who arc certified instructors and one part-time emergency physician. . According to Wayne Watson, head nurse of the Emergency Center and certified instructor, the new instructors will ease the load of the current instructors and will allow the hospital to serve its own employees better, as well as other hospitals and health care institutions throughout the central and southern part of the state. "We're now able to teach more courses and can offer it to anybody who wants to go through it, provided they have completed the prerequisite. Before it was only ; offered to hospital emergency and intensive care personnel," per-sonnel," he said. Watson added that the course's main emphasis is on life support and all that it encompasses. The course is very thorough, covering such areas as sudden death, myocardial infraction, ventilation, IV techniques, newborn, infant and child resuscitation, blood gases, pharmacology, and the medical-legal aspects of CPR. |