University Daily Kansan
Monday, October 25, 1971
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Mrs. D, Sharp Studies Heart Monitor
... One 'chirp' for each heart beat ...
By GARY NEIL PETERSON Kansan Staff Writer
Intensive Care Unit Serves Cardiacs
Less than two weeks remain before the start of the "Fall Mini-Cleanup" in Lawrence and the other areas concerned over the apathetic response.
The Women's Division of the Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring its semi-annual cleanup November 2-7.
According to Mrs. Walter Nash, chairman of the Nassau Chamber of Commerce, only 11 of the more than 30 projects had
By RICHARD GUSTIN
Kansan Staff Writer
"I'm concerned that projects are not being adopted as fast as they usually are," Mrs. Nash said.
been taken by Tuesday
Mrs. Nash said that so far no KU organizations had offered support for the project as they had in the past.
The intensive care unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital is one of 13 units recognized in this category. He was a member of Association for its care of cardiac patients, said Mrs. DiXie Sharp, head nurse of the unit, in an in-depth interview.
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She attributed the lack of interest by KU people to two issues. First, this year with a合購 on the bottom to return to the Chamber of Commerce with the choice of all KU organizations sent to all KU organizations and
The unit, completed in July of this year, has a nine-bed capacity. Hearts of cardiac patients are monitored electronically on the bed and the nurse's desk in the hall.
Both auditory and visual signals are produced by the monitoring devices. The auditory sounds signal like sharp chirps.
Not only cardiac patients are cared for in the unit. Other patients in critical condition, which require intensive training to the intensive care unit to recover. Mrs. Sharp said surgical patients were remained approximately two weeks in the unit and cardiac patients remained about five days.
The first intensive care unit in Lawrence Memorial Hospital was started in 1965. The equipment and space allotted the unit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital now occupies a stable portion of the third floor of the hospital.
The staff of four nurses is hired to train the new nurse each educates classes designed to train her in the latest procedures, said Mrs. Shara.
"We feel," said Mrs. Sharp, "that the facilities we have are adequate to meet any emergency."
"Every chirp is a heart beat," he said. "Mr. Sharp. When the chirps start, Mr. Sharp looks at a light above the patient's room comes on. Then we know which chirps are going to break."
When an emergency occurs, a cart, called a crash cart, is rolled into the patient's room. The cart has an additional monitoring
device and equipment to save the patient's life.
Scott Winters, Lawrence member of the board of the American Federation of Musicians, which is associated with the local 170. Friday terrace at the local most prominent "in the state
Member Musician Lauds Local Union
living groups. The other reason is that living groups this year returned to making homecoming trips, for few years these same groups devoted their time and money to an up-acc, according to Mrs. Nash.
In Lawrence, 80 per cent of the working members are in rock 'n' roll groups. Half of the eight-third have been there therefore the emphasis has been on making the groups aware that the union can ensure them a minimum wage and can protect their worker and employee, Winters said.
The unit, local No. 512, which is located near other districts in the state that it is concerned with rock 'n' roll groups. Winters said in an interview.
The average age of all union members is 55. Consequently, Winters, the union has more young musicians, young musicians in rock groups.
Those Lawrence civic organizations have volunteered for a project are the Lawrence Library and the Lawrence High School grounds; a Brownie troup that will clean the South Junior High area; the Lawrence Sierra Club; a group that will clean a block of city property in Indiana Street; and the Lawrence Breakfast Cosmopolitan, who will clean the area to turn tupike access on Sixth Street.
"A lot of the groups like to give free concerts for the benefit of those who can't afford to pay to attend, or to save expenses of the group when they give free concerts. A lot of the groups are conducted in a manner."
To start the cleanup campaign, the women's members of Women's Division will chair the Chamber of Commerce are going for a "litter walk" down at the entrance.
Mrs. Nash urged those interested to contact the Chamber of Commerce at 843-4411.
Mrs. Nash said that the Lawrence sanitation department would provide trucks and drivers for pickup of unusually large quantities of trash and could be contacted by volunteer groups.
His lecture, second in the series of Humanities Lectures, is entitled "How a Historian Changes His Mind."
Henry L. Snyder, associate professor of history and chairman of the lecture series, said Stamp's talk would cover "the that forced a historian to revise his interpretation of the past."
Noted historian and civil war expert, Kenneth Stampp, Morrison professor of American history at the University of California at Berkeley is secreting a book on Tuesday in Woodford Auditorium.
Snyder said that Stampp was chosen to speak because of his distinguished scholarship in the University's excellent lecturer. Stampp is an expert on the Civil War and the Reconstruction period. A colleague from Wisconsin, Stampp has taught at the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland. He received a fellowship from Stampp has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Missouri in 1960 he was a Common Fund Lecturer at the University of London and was a Harmworth Historical History at Oxford in 1961.
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Stampp has written several books including "The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antillean Islands," "The Causes of Civil War," "Civil Reconstruction," and "National Experience," a history textbook.
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Stampp will visit with history students and faculty in their classes Monday and Tuesday.
The next Humanities Lecture is scheduled Nov. 16 when D.S. Carne-Ross will speak on "The Arts of Resistance."
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