The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, February 5, 1973 Page: 7 of 16
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, February 5,1973
Accident Deaths Drop Due To Trauma Care System
CHICAGO (AP) — Seven- that such an injury as Miss
teen-year-old Susan Turner is Turner stained usually has
working part time as a 100 per cent mortality,
waitress and finishing high "If the system hadn’t
school. worked like clockwork, she
By all odds, she should be would have died at the local
dead. center,” he said. ------------
She would be, says Dr. David Miss Turner’s case the victim was taken to the
R. Boyd, wgre it not for the II- illustrates the kind of care nearest hospital or the one fa-
linois trauma care system, available to accident ......... **" “ ‘ '
And her father, Gene, says so throughout the state — even in
too. remote areas.
Boyd and Dr. Bruce Flash- Victims may expect the
ner, surgeons who had worked same level of
arid no hospitals. On the othe£
hand, Boyd notes, some of the
more populous areas have had
hospitals operating emergency
rooms competitively.
Before development of the
statewide trauma care system,
state agencies and officials are
pressed into use when needed,
Hospitals, of course, were in
ere encouraged to existence and simply required
upgrading of existing
facilities.
The network begins with the
Hr -
unit at Co
Chicago, developed the state’s northeast corner of the
unique system. elongated state. And it’s ~
Now state public health offi- available"
cials, they drew on the coordi- sometimes
nated trauma care which was Even though the Department
responsible for saving so many of Transportation has for six
American lives in the Korean years required states to have
and Vietnam wars.
They had the
vored by the ambulance
', regardless of whether
it was equipped properly to
care for the critically injured.
Initially, the Illinois
program
emphasis on upgrading those
which did not meet standards,
Hospitals offering duplicating
services v
drop them
The problem of inadequate
ambulances is next on the
agenda. Already, though, heli-
copters and small planes are ers an area with a 25-mile radi
spinal cord injuries
All the centers are connected
by radio with each other and
with ambulances, and all must
have a helicopter ambulance
landing site. : .
Former military medical
Now is the time for all
good men to discover the box
local trauma center. Each cov- corpsmen serve as trauma
barbs ""[Symphony Adviser Named
By PHIL PASTORET
DALLAS (AP) - Max
Rudolf has been appointed
artistic advisor for the Dallas
tistic administrator.
In 1958, Rudolf left the Met to
become musical director of the
of ornaments they forgot to Symphony Orchestra. Rudolf, Cincinnati Symphony, a post
he retained for 12 years.
Rudolf now makes his home in
lphiawhereheison the
put away with the rest of the
yule decorations
former artistic administrator
for the Metropolitan Opera
director of the
Neighbor says his fen-
der couldn’t be fixed, but
the garage tinkered
cinnati Symphony for 12 years, faculty of the Curtis Institute
Cook County Hospital in a major medical center in the designation of
o, developed the .....^ «*
ier
prices
tandard
is com-
:msewife
rmarket
wants to
said in
of Gov. Richard B. der to qualify for highway as-
whose life was saved sistance, Illinois is the only
Bi corpsmen after he state to instil# «*Ch a pro-
was wounded in battle during gram.,
World Warn. Hie Illinois program was be-
support of
Ogilvie, who
by medical <
Miss Turner
side
pinned in- gun July 1, 1971 and now in-
in an acci-| eludes 38 hospitals from Cairo
dent near her rural Atlanta, at the southern tip of the state
111., home Dec. 19,1971. Police to Rockford, 400 miles north.
di)Mrt£iwd. The effect of the program on
The victim was cut out of the the death rate from accidents
car and taken by ambulance to| has been dramatic.
4 of th; division of
Hospital, the nearest desig-j emergency medical services
nated trauma center. and highway safety in the II-
There, a doctor immediately linois Department of Public
noticed blood in her ear. This Health, reports the death rate
iixJkatedbleeding inside the from highway accidents has
head, an injury too severe to be dropped 8 per’cent for the
treated at the local center, state.
At Lincoln, the trauma coor- The mortality rate in Illinois
dinator, a new medical automobile accidents is now 2
position in the Illinois system, per cent, compared to
got in touch with St. John’s nationwide average of 13 per
Hospital in Springfield^ the cent,
regional trauma center, to Trauma — or ifijtiry by acci-
alert the staff. Since it was a dent — is the third leading
SundayrthereVetfi^ewer cause of death in the nation,
doctors and other personnel on after heart disease ami cancer,
duty than usual. Under age 40, it is No. 1,
By the time Miss Turner ar- An estimated 70 to 80 per
rived by ambulance a half-cent of the 55,000 traffic deaths
hour later, the operating room in the United States each year
was ready and a neurosurgeon result from accidents in rural
The blood clot was removed areas and communities with
from her brain in surgery, and less than 2,500 population,
she was on the road to recov- Some sparsely populated
ery. areas of Illinois, especially in
Boyd said i/ftrinterview the south, have few doctors
Congress Is Removing
Secrecy From At
WASHINGTON i AP)-Con-
gress is slowly chipping away 1947 after the 1946 Legislative
Reorganization Act required
open sessions for all com-
mittees unless a majority of
members decided to work be-
at the granite-like wall of se-
crecy surrounding many of its
actions.
More committee’ meetings
are being opened for public hind closed doors
viewing and news media cov-
erage. Newsmen have easier
access to the results of deci
sions made behind closed
doors
irvthiS Congress.The Senate
Interior and Space committees
have voted to hold open ses-
sions except in rare case*.
‘ t The Hp# Appropriations
Committee, a basfion of
closed-door meetings, in a
open. It started that policy in
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The 1970 congressional
reorganization law required
that votes taken by com-
mittees in executive session,
including individuals’ votes, be
made available to newsmen.
Some committees get around
[the requirement by having no
roll-call votes.
The Democratic Study-
Group, composed of liberal
practice it started two years and moderate House mem-
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coverage next week of its
annual budget review sessions.
But detailed consideration of
the budget' by 13 sub-
committees will be held in
closed executive session,
that of 3,000 to 3,000 committee
sessions a year, 40 per cent of
all Senate and House panel
meetings were held behind
closed doors. The group said
the House used executive
except in isolated cases. There sessions more than the Senate,
were 23 open hearings last
year, a small fraction of the
total number of meetings.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee holds all of its sub-
committee hearings in the
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House and Senate would make
calling executive sessions
more difficult because it would
require an affirmative vote
and an explanation every tithe
a committee decided to go
behind closed doors.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, February 5, 1973, newspaper, February 5, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103953/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.