40 YEARS AGO IN OR NURSING indiv...

40 YEARS AGO IN OR NURSING

individual article reports that AORN's membership numbers 4000 and the Association is upon its way to becoming an international organization. * A telegram sent to AORN's President by dint of John F. Kennedy is reprinted in the March/April 1961 issue of OR Nursing. The telegram states "Many of the dramatic advances in our nation's health have been made possible in large measure by the agency of professional groups like yours " * According to single article, an average 1,500 potions of coffee per day are consum in the coffee live lazily at Congress. * An article regarding bake care states fluid and electrolyte balances must be restored in victims. Treatment is divided into three phases--emergency care, 12 to 21 days, and reconstruction.

30 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

In the May 1971 issue of the Journal, an OR technician is defined as common who prepares equipment for surgery functions as the rub hard person to the surgeon, cares for the equipment after surgery is full and meets certain patient indigences An OR technician performs these functions in a less degree than the direct supervision of an RN or surgeon * Another article regarding answers to a questionnaire states an OR nurse's average salary is $748 through month. * The need for programs to train urological assistants is the enslave of one article. The author states urological assistants' salaries should range from $5000 to $10000 annually, depending onward an individual's ability. * united column reports the Association has 13000 members and 180 chapters.

20 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

common article explores ways to research for a certification exam, including research groups, individual study plans, and formal courses. * In "OR Nursing Law," the illegality of allowing physician assistants to administer anesthesia is discussed. The author encourages promotes to put concerns regarding the practice in writing to administrators. * the same of the most potentially devastating complications of vascular surgery when a prosthesis is used is infection, according to the same article. * An article regarding vitrectomy, the removal of all or part of a diseased vitreous and its replacement with saline solution, states the approach is usually, on the other hand not always, through the pars plana.

10 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

single article states that skeletal muscle fibers can alter their properties in answer to changes in use, and that this quality might make it possible to use the muscle for cardiac assist. * According to single in kind article, if avulsed teeth are replanted 15 to 30 minutes after avulsion, there is a 90% chance the teeth can be saved. After 15 to 30 minutes, the succes rate small quantitys rapidly. * One author reports surgeon at five major cardiac center in Saudi Arabia perform more than 2000 make open heart procedures each year. * An article regarding breast cancer states that pregnancy before the age of 20 propounds some protection against breast cancers, and the causative part of exogenous estrogen remains controversial.

nearest MONTH IN THE AORN JOURNAL

In the May 2001 AORN Journal, single Home Study Program will describe esophageal diverticula and different regularitys of treating the disease. An article will examine managment of the pediatric spina bifida patient with latex allergy. Other articles will discuss

* a perioperative give suck to fellowship program and its outcomes

* the coming standard of care for breast cancer patients,

* the powers of intraoperative warming therapy forward pressure ulcers, and

* the World discourse on Surgical Patient Care in September 2001

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