Show Hospital Week Marks Progress In Medicine QUIET REVOLUTION THIS YEAR ABOUT people will discover that a quiet revolution has taken place in THESE MEN AND WOMEN WILL be admitted as patients into one or another of this state's 36 And in all of these they'll find in daily use techniques and equipment undreamed of only a generation THIS WEEK BEGINNING May the state observes National Hospital Week to salute those whose efforts have developed institutional medicine to its present efficiency and who work toward the improved hospital of the AUTHORITIES POINT TO developments such 1 Shortening of the average stay in U. S. hospitals from 40 days in 1900 to 8 days in 1963 Development of a host of new products including electronic devices that automatically dispense medicine and give continuous readings on blood respiration and 3 Tripling of the use of therapy oxygen since World War n. Widespread use of new cost-cutting disposable products from needles and syringes to bedpans and oxygen A GUIDE PATH FOR FUTURE innovations is provided by the progress of oxygen therapy from a World War I curiosity to the present indispensable role in treatment of respiratory and circulatory reports a leading producer of medical oxygen and inhalation therapy equipment OXYGEN USE IN HOSPITALS HAS tripled since World War II and is still climbing by 10 per cent a according to MEDICAL AND ENGINEERING researchers have worked together to broaden application of this vital therapy while at the same time reducing its costs to hospital authorities the LISTS THESE Labor-saving piping systems have done away with clumsy and psychologically disturbing cylinders in recovery and patients' Central supply systems some containing huge amounts of oxygen in form save space and reduce storage Comfortable single-use oxygen masks have raised sanitary yet cost less than cleaning a re-usable |