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D112214-3
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- 1958-01-30 (Creation)
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Mary Bridge Children's Hospital was furnished with the most technolgically advanced equipment, appropriately sized for children. Even in the X-ray room, it was not forgotten that this was a hospital for children; a whimsical mural of ducks in a pond is prominently displayed. Gloved and masked medical personnel are in the process of X-raying a patient. The X-ray apparatus is placed over the prone patient who is entirely covered in a colored sheet. Mary Bridge had recently opened a new cardiac laboratory; cardiac catheterization, a modern technique in the diagnosis of heart ailments, was performed in the hospital. This was one of the first services offered to adult patients in addition to children; adults would have procedures done on an out-patient basis without needing to stay overnight. Shown are Mrs. James Bramhall, R.N., holding a strain gauge, Dr. Dale Hadfield, anesthesiologist who is controlling the oxygenation of the patient, Dr. S.S. Sanderson, radiologist, and Mrs. Sam Hunter, R.N., who is standing by the electric heart stimulators. Sepia photograph ordered by Mary Bridge Children's Hospital. (TNT 2-16-58, A-10)
Mary Bridge Children's Hospital (Tacoma); Hospitals--Tacoma--1950-1960; Radiography; Bramhall, James--Family; Hadfield, Dale; Sanderson, Stevens S.; Hunter, Sam--Family; Physicians--Tacoma--1950-1960; Nurses--Tacoma--1950-1960;