Josephine
NURSE DIRECTOR EMERITA
This is principally for Pat but thought you all would like to see it as well. This is the original, ground breaking Hip Centre that was started up around 1960. The story goes that Charnley was so impassioned about his new hip procedure and all the special requirements, tat the hospital management gave him an old, run-down hospital to go work in, simply to get him out of their hair (he could be very demanding and stubborn, could the Prof!)
Well, he took the hospital and with practically no budget, forged it into the premier hip unit in the world! And thus it remains to this day! His legacy lives on.
The photos were taken in 1981 so you can see that not much changed over the years! Hospital wards in the UK look pretty much like this today.
This is one of the anaesthetic rooms where the first level prep was done. This involved two nurses and took around 20-30 mins. The prep nurse (preparing her trolley) would wash and scrub the entire lower portion of the patient from waist to foot - all the leg and the foot with providone iodine. Then the patient would have the first layer of sterile drapes applied before being wheeled into the OR.
Here, Professor Wroblewski (Charnely's succesor) is talking to the group of surgeons who were on the visit with me.
Well, he took the hospital and with practically no budget, forged it into the premier hip unit in the world! And thus it remains to this day! His legacy lives on.
The photos were taken in 1981 so you can see that not much changed over the years! Hospital wards in the UK look pretty much like this today.
This is one of the anaesthetic rooms where the first level prep was done. This involved two nurses and took around 20-30 mins. The prep nurse (preparing her trolley) would wash and scrub the entire lower portion of the patient from waist to foot - all the leg and the foot with providone iodine. Then the patient would have the first layer of sterile drapes applied before being wheeled into the OR.
Here, Professor Wroblewski (Charnely's succesor) is talking to the group of surgeons who were on the visit with me.
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