San Francisco Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Seal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Report of Surgery Department San Francisco Hospital FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1925 OPERATIONS PERFOHMED DURING THE YEAR STANFORD UNIVERSITY SERVICE: General ...................,.....,,.,,,.,,,,, Gynecologmal ,,..,.,.,,.,,,,,,,,,r ,,,,,,,,, Genlto U1'1I'13Fy ..........,.,...,.,,,,,,,,,,., , Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat ,...,.,.. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SERVICE: General ....................,...................... Gynecological .............,............,,.. Gemto UI'1l131'y ..,.......,..........,...... Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat ,........ MUNICIPAL SERVICE QResident Physicianj tWards Sf, Lf, Tonsil VVardJ : General and Gynecological ......... Tonsils and Adenoids ..............., EMERGENCY OPERATIONS I Stanford Service ..,.............. University of California.. ,.., .. Total .........,............,..... 206 435 56 10 177 380 88 51 and 159 ,,.,...1,347 138 184 707 696 1,506 322 .3231 wwwwwm Q - f Page 75

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The Qperating Rooms HE Surgery is located in the second tlooriof the Admission Building. It is accessible to the surgical wards, and its component parts are 111 con- venient rel 1t10n to elch other. . 6514515 Theie are two 11121111 operating rooms of the amphitheatre type, each ith seating capacity of fifty. V LILAH DIAHAN, R. N. Here are held weekly surgical clinics for visiting surgeons, staff and students. Immediately adjoin- ing are two rooms of equal operating size, but with smaller seating capacity. They are used for tonsils and specialties. Four anaesthesia rooms and one recovery room are also in use. Near the centrally located office are rooms for instruments, sterilizers, linen, equipment, supplies and solutions, locker-rooms for visiting surgeons, internes and nurses and three scrub rooms. There is also a cast and appliance depart- ment which is managed by a trained technician. An interesting feature of the surgery is the emergency operating room. It contains all of the equipment necessary for operative procedure, and stands ready for almost instant use. All acute surgical cases are conveyed from the five out-ly- ing emergency hospitals to the San Francisco Hospital, where prompt operative treatment can be instituted. Recently, a Urological room has been equipped with 1nost of the ordinary instruments as well as high frequency apparatus for dessica- tion, fulguration and diathermy. There is also an X-Ray tube and stand for taking pictures of the urinary tract, and a modern table with a built-in Bucky Diaphragm. Cvsto- scopes of almost every type for examination, catheterization and radium treat- ment are available, as well as a complete assortment of catheters. LILAH R. MAHAN, R. N. Supervisor of Surgery, l Page 74

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X'Ray Department VV. E. Chamberlain, M.D ..... U.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Visiting Radiologist, U. C. Service H. S. Hunsberger, M. D Lloyd Bryan, M. D... Bertrand Roche .,,.... Ilse Kirchhoff ..,,.......... Margaret Dewhurst ....... Thomas Hudson .,..... Ok9 STAFF Visting Radiologist, Stanford Service ,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Resident Radiologist Technician ........Secretary and Stenographer The number of radiograms made during the past six months is over 7,200, excluding dental films. This is one-third more than the number of radiograms made in the corresponding period of the previous year. Twenty-tive hours per month of High Voltage X-ray treatments' have been given. This is the actual time the tubes were in operation. An average of more than three patients a day has been treated, mostly for malignant conditions. The nurse assigned to the X-ray Department devotes a great deal of her time to the care of these patients. One afternoon a week is devoted to Low Voltage Treatments, for n0n-malig- nant conditions. There are about ten Low Voltage Treatments given each Week. A Committee consisting of surgeons, radiologists, and others, representatives of both universities, meets Weekly for the consideration of cases requiring X-ray treatment. Most of the cases receiving X-ray treatment are examined and seen from time to time by this Committee. Two students are in training as X-ray technicians. The length of the course is six months. This makes it possible to graduate four students each year from this department. During the year of 1924-1925 4,443 patients visited the X-Ray Department for iluroscopic and radiographic work. The number of radiograms made was approxi- mately 8,000. Page 76