C2 - Sunday, November 18, 1984 - North Shore News

Dropped LGH surgical wal

From Page C1

ed It can, and often does,
reflect the volume of opera
tions in specialized medical
areas and the busy schedules
of certain surgeons and also
the personal schedules of the
patients themselves

Now that some ot the
misconceptions are out of the
way, here is the good news
The elective surgery waiting
list at L.G.H. 1s the lowest it
has been in several years. At
the end of August the list had
1,162 names after hovering
arouna the 1,700 and 1,800
level for the past several
years

Skate

AS THE SNOW. descends
upon the mountain
thoughts turn to winter
sports Now as the time to
Prepare vourself for that
great sport-- skiing

Downhill skiers as well as
Cross Country athletes will
benefit trom attending public

slopes,

sessions at North Van
couver’s skating rinks
Posture, balance. and the
muscle groups used tor
_ skating are very similar to
x of skiung, and. skills

e practiced before the
Rte f day of the

quads will
thank vou for the extra work
out before that first long run!

If there is a new skier in the
tamily, teach the fundamen
tals of skiung--movements
and techniques through we

And

to banish one last
misconception - this does not
mean that there are 1,162

people ahead of you and you
will probably have to want
torever. The booking of
Operating rooms and umes
and personnel and patients is
so complex that an OR
booking clerk often looks
like a cross between a juggler
and a magician

A pool of 1,100 provides a
good working mixture for
putting together combina-
tions of patients, particular
surgeons, anaesthetists,
ORs ete. that make the
most etficrent use of facilities
available 1.6; H- averages
44 operations a day or about

to ski

skating Edges. turns, and
stopping may be introduced
first with skates The prin

ciples are the same tor each
sport

Be prepared when the snow
piles high and the mountains
are open for skiers. There are
two pubhe arenas operating
in North Vancouver Karen
Magnussen, 937 Lynn Valley

Road is located two blocks
north of the Upper levels
Highway in lynn Walley

North Vancouver Recreation
Centre iw situated on the S EF
corner of 23rd and Ll onsdale
Both rinks offer weekly
public skating sessions For
more information please call

Karen Magnussen Arena,
984-9341 of North Van-
couver Recreation Centre,
ORR 6166

1,180 a month. This means
that a waiting list of 1,100 oF
1,2CO patients can be cleared
tairly quickly. It, of course,
they are not all waiting tor
specialized operations with
particularly busy surgeons
and are able to come tn when
they are called.

One of the reasons tor the
reduction in the surgical
waiting list is the success of
the | .Gi.H. day surgery pro-

gram Approximately SO per-
cent of the surgical patients
enter hospital in the morning
and are back in their own
homes by the same evening
“Necessity really was the
mother of invention in this
situation,’ says Dr. Corbett.
“When we faced a drastic
reduction in beds we found
that we could do a lot in day
surgery. Now there are very
tew specialists that don’t

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have some procedures carried
out on a day surgery basis ""

The proportion of day
surgery continues to increase
at |.G.H_ In the past year
6,142 patients had same-day
surgery compared to 4,988
patients in a 12 month period
in 1983 This represents a
treeing-up of beds that would
have been occupied for two
or three days at least by each
of those patients in the ‘told

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