Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free the Cember 1982 medical team winning race with death i m m Fwee press by Manfred Jager 1 As recently As five years Only the occasional massive injury victim made it to the Hospital they used to die where they were injured or on their Way to the Hospi says Luis director of health sciences centres resuscitation thanks to the skill of ambulance attendants and advanced train ing and coordination at the hocs resuscitation 75 100 victims reach surgery 20 victims survive an Hsc official estimates about 40 of the these patients make to the pos surgical intensive care unit and 20 survive complications and Are ultimately Oppenheimer team of nurses and technicians Start their race i against death the instant an ambulance pulls up at the health sciences Centre emergency Entrance with a Vic Tim of massive its a Battle which takes place about twice a week in what Oppenheimer refers to As the pit there Are no no Dis just super fast work by he the fight for life rarely lasts longer than 15 tense minutes during which doctors and their support staff Are not allowed to make who teaches surgery and intensive care at the University of Manitoba medical school and is the schools director of surgical says the first few minutes after the arrival of a critically ill patient deter mine whether they during these critical up to five medical experts work together to save the Oppenheimer the danger of hypothermia is a major complications which plagues the Oppenheimer this happens summer and the patient has frequently lost about a third of his or her total blood volume by the time they get they Are in severe the replacement blood we give them is always below Normal body because we dont have the technology to warm it quickly enough without cooking microwave research once the patient gets to the operate 1hg we Are faced with another temperature differential Between patient and environment at a Point when the patients body cavities Are open for leading to tremendous heat blood still has to be stored at cold tempera its a big and a great Challenge were working to blood for transfusions now is warmed in tubing threaded through resuscitation team at health sciences Centre in simulated race to save victim of massive injuries from plastic warming the process is research into the use of microwaves to warm blood is under Way but results Are not expected for at for the time no Way has been found to prevent microwave damage to blood the Day will come when we can find a Way of preserving blood without having to Cool Oppen Heimer wed then be Able to administer it without Cooling the patient Down further and risking about 100 victims of traffic and other As Well As ruptured an eur isms and near fatal gastrointestinal Are handled by the Resus citation team per in there Are about 300 mul title Organ injuries with confirmed or threatened hypothermia but with patients not in imminent danger of our first priority is to ascertain whether we must control the patients the next thing is to Resus Citi Tate the patient from which involves replacing fluids a time when it May be very difficult to locate veins on the patients you then have to Institute intravenous lines and get the blood this alone can take 15 during which other people assess the Call the operating and get support services successful resuscitation is newer than most people he its Only recently that we started receiving these patients in this work is so new that we dont even have comparative operating room Suc Cess data five years ago the operating room never got these a Oppenheimer 1 the growing Success rate of the ambulance service first faced us with the Challenge of keeping the patients he Des Chenes to get new school construction is to begin Early in the new year on a grades 7 to 12 Francais school in he Des education minister Maureen Hemphill announced Hemphill said construction of the school has been approved by the Public schools financing and should be completed in time f6r the school to open next the Square foot building will open with student population of about but that will increase to 225 by the minister she said a special provincial develop ment program which makes Grants available to school divisions opening a Francais or immersion school should help the Seine River school division Cope the additional operating costs involved in opening the new alive when we got now that were getting better at what were the Challenge is being passed on to the operating room staff they will pass it on to the intensive care problems yet to be solved include developing simultaneous electronic monitoring capability of vital functions such As blood tempera brain and tissue current technology allows tracking of one parameter at a time doctors also need better tools to control pulmonary a complication involving secretion of More fluid from lung tissue into the lungs than the system can Cope Oppenheimer said More than half the patients lost after surgery die because of multiple infection involving organs which shut Down under the key for some to will be the operating my goal is that anybody who gets into this Hospital alive ought to make it to recovery and churches Fate in limbo by Greg Bannister a Portage la Prairie ukrainian Catholic Church slated for demolition is historically a report to cultural affairs minister Eugene Kos tyra the prepared by Kostyra also concluded the Church is now in a severe state of the Fate of the Church of the blessed Virgin Mary will Likely remain in limbo until the historical Sites advisory Board reviews the Situa Tion in january and makes a final recommendation to the provincial Cabi net on whether the building should be the 55yearold ukrainian Catholic Church has been the subject of hard feelings among parishioners in por Tage la Prairie located some 90 kilo metres West of Mary Secretary of the Parish has embarked upon a Campaign to prevent the Church from being demolished for a parking the Wood built by hand by its immigrant was replaced earlier this year by a new Brick and steel building on the same the in order to get a building permit for its new had to Promise Portage City Council to pro vide a parking the Parish has no additional and the Parish Council favors demolishing the old Church to create the parking recently Portage upon receiving a request from voted to give the Parish a six month Extension until june 1 to provide the required parking after reviewing reports on the the Board will make a recommendation to the minister on its significance to the Community and to the the minister then presents the recommendation to the entire Cabinet which will make the decision whether to declare the site historic and prevent its the report i have received from my staff was based on a recent viewing of the there is also other information which the Parish has itself which the Board will Kostyra said the More detailed re port to go to the Board will address topics such As the structures architectural but will also Deal with the physical condition of the seniors May get fee reprieve m senior citizens May get a reprieve from a City decision to impose fees on the elderly for attending fitness programs at City civic recreation and social services committee passed a motion yesterday recommending City Council wipe out a fee of 75 cents a visit or for a season pass to attend the instruction Al the programs include aquatic exercises and swim Ming and Are specially geared to senior City imposed the fee this until the classes for senior citizens were x f Harold a 77yearold Pool told the committee yesterday the new fees could Cost an elderly couple who Are regular users As much As a Jim general manager of Parks and weather said a couple would have to swim seven Days a take part in fitness programs five Days a week and take two fitness classes a week to spend that Swail recommended the fee be he said allowing seniors free swim programs would be discriminatory unless the City also wiped out fees for the elderly at City Arenas and Golf Swail said providing All those programs to the elderly free of charge would result in a annual Revenue he said estimated Revenue from the aquatic programs alone is but the committee backed councillors Larry Fleaher Crescent Heights and Anne Jurowski Macdonell who said the aquatic programs could not be compared to golfing or because the water exercises provide a Way for the elderly to stay in the free admission policy would not apply when the elderly attend for casual but Only for the fitness cantors Gallagher at Quelch Canada a1 a2 beef 20 City Calendar the Canadian abortion rights action league will hold a pro Choice rally on the abortion rights of women at today in room 3 c100 of the University of a free transcendental meditation program in theory and practice will begin at 8 tomorrow at the museum of Man and nature planetarium the calligraphy Guild of Manitoba will present designing a greeting card with John Henry Friesen at tomorrow in room 326 of the University of Manitoba education the fee is for cries from the a 96minute co production of the National film Board and the Cousteau will be shown at 8 tomorrow and thursday at Cinema 243 main admission is the Westin Portage at will feature several elementary school choirs and a senior citizens group singing Christmas songs at beginning Friday with Athlone Elemen tary other school choirs will sing 14 to the program will end 20 with the Smith Street senior citizens Chuck Steak if 41 prices effective store hours thru we Reserve the right to limit quantities Winnipeg area forecast becoming Cloudy with a few Snow flurries this afternoon and continuing brisk northwesterly High today near Low tonight near mainly sunny tomorrow with a High near probability of precipitation is 70 per cent tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly but much colder than Normal thursday and a Little warmer Normal highs Are Normal lows Are Northern Manitoba mainly but colder than Normal thurs Friday and Normal highs Are Normal lows Are Northwestern Ontario mainly but much colder than Normal Friday and Normal highs Are Normal lows Are resort spots los fog 21 Las fair 14 fair is 24 27 26 24 fair 29 fair 32 fair 29 deaths classified death National 7 6 6 7 13 8 22 12 10 13 Thunder International new 2 n 12 14 14 6 4 18 21 8 12 3 0 1 14 22 25 29 20 19 21 1 0 2 ii is 14 2 3 0 31 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max mean 6 last highest on record in 1939 lowest on record in 1962 precipitation Toifl from i to Pec 6 Millimetres Normal Anne widow of David Watson Ander Hus band of Nellie William of Lin formerly of husband of Connie Isabel of 991 Minto wife of William Alberta of 203 Montgomery widow of Claude Davi William of husband of Anne Albert of formerly of widower of Betsy Grace widow of John Jonas of husband of Agnes Edwin of husband of Marjorie widow of Samuel of husband of Marie formerly of widow of Carl Frederick of 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