James W. Wade, president, Salt Lake county chapter, American Red Cross, pins an instructor's insignes on Miss Alice Jean Barker while Miss Edla Johnson, another graduate, awaits turn for chapter award. READY TO TEACH 16 Nurses Win Awards In Red Cross Course Sixteen graduate nurses com¬pleted an intensive American Red Cross home nursing course Tues¬day and were presented pins and certificates by James W. Wade, Salt Lake county chapter presi¬dent. Each now is qualified to instruct Red Cross courses in home nurs¬ing and all will begin teaching Monday and Tuesday when such courses will be open to the public. Training for the corps of new in¬structors was under supervision of Miss Sophie Augunas, San Fran¬cisco, area director of home nurs¬ing. Next week's classes, which in¬clude instruction in about 30 pro¬cedures and methods in caring for the ill or aged, will be the first of a series which make up 12-hour courses. Classes will begin Mon¬day at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. and will be held, at those hours on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri¬days for two weeks. Nurses who received graduating pins and certificates Tuesday were: Miss Edla Johnson, 32 E. 6th South; Mrs. Janet Stagg, 251 Ra- mona ave.; Miss Alice Jean Bar¬ker, Ogden; Miss Wilma Ernestine Talbot, Holy Cross hospital; Miss Winifred Morse, 68 R st.; Mrs. Ruth Allgood Larson, Sandy; Sis¬ter M. Cassian Peters, St. Bene¬dict's hospital, Ogden; Miss Emma Marie Manning, Ogden; Mrs. Shir¬ley Collins, 1121-3rd ave.; Mrs. Myrtle Coltharp, 676 E. 1st South; Mrs. Ruth Cronin, 2729 Beverly st.; Mrs. Juliet J. Gilbride,, 352-6th East; Mrs. Beatrice McHarg, 1919 9th East; Miss Bessie Hansen, 234 1st ave.; Mrs. Ruth W. Cooper, 2534 Commonwealth ave., and Mrs. lone L. Broadhurst, 424 E. 3060 South. 8 THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINER TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1950 Schafer's Method Favored For Respiration Routine By Dr. William Brady Ever since some obscure but ele-gant Red Cross big shot approved the Red Cross modification of Schafer’s method of resuscitation it has notable, perhaps a fixed policy, that the name of the dis-covered the manual prone pres¬sure method of artificial respira¬tion has been conspicuous for its absence from Red Cross litera¬ture. Sometimes I think the big shots of the Red Cross and of course all the yes-men who follow their lead, you know, the American Light association, United States Gas association, National Electric Navy Bureau of Medicine and Sur¬gery, Bethlehem Steel corporation, American Telephone and Telegraph company, etc., etc., have a mad on because Schafer, who devised and gave the world manual prone- pressure resuscitation, prescribed that both of the subject's arms be extended well above the head in order to keep the subject's thorax or chest in the most favorable po¬sition for entrance of air into the lungs. You see, the Red Cross "ap¬proved" modification of Schafer's method—and the Red Cross , "ap¬proval" is. echoed by fat-heads who hardly know what it is about but assume they can safely follow. Red Cross leadership —ignores this mere technical feature and uses one arm of the subject as a head rest, and thus keeps her pretty face (usually it is a bathing girl who , poses for the picture) fi*om contact with the ground or floor. I have the written opinion of the late Prof. Yandell Henderson, per¬haps the foremost authority on the question during his lifetime, that Schafer's method is preferable to the Red Cross method because of the facts mentioned. What opinion or authority can the Red Cross or ^ any other organization cite to jus-tify the hand or forearm under the head? If the subject is a victim of sub¬mersion the pretty method "ap¬proved" by the Red Cross involves a hazard which Schafer's method obviates, namely the blocking of windpipe by water or other fluid —the Red Cross death trap, as de¬scribed and illustrated in booklet How to Breathe. For a copy of this booklet, which includes in¬structions in resuscitation, send 25c and stamped self-addressed. The commandant of the TJ. S. coast guard, replying to query about this inexplicable modification of Schafer's manual prone-pressure resuscitation method, quotes Chris¬topher's textbook on Minor Surgery, as follows: "Lay patient on his belly, one arm extended directly overhead the other arm bent at the elbow and with the face turned outward and resting on the hand and forearm so that the nose and throat are free for breathing." That is to imply-that Schafer hadn't enough sense to keep the nose and throat free for breath¬ing. Howell's Textbook of Physiology contains an illustration (credited to Schafer) of the proper position of the subject, showing both arms extended well up above the head. Some little big shot of the Red Cross boldly asserted in a letter to citizen who inquired about resusci-tation, that in a personal communi¬cation to some Red Cross repre¬sentative Schafer himself had ap-proved of the arm-under-the-head modification. Show me that letter and I'll pipe down. As nearly as I can learn, the only excuse for placing the sub¬ject's arm under the head or face is to "keep the nose and throat free for breathing." It is incon¬ceivable that even a child who knows enough to apply artificial respiration would not keep the nose and mouth free for breath¬ing with the subject's face turned to one side. It seems regrettable that the TJ. S. coast guard has joined all the other organizations that-"approve" and practice the wrong method (of resuscitation. Come on, now, fellows, surely you are big enough to acknowledge a technical error and correct it. 9/29/50 Red Cross Slates Nursing Course Young mothers were urged today to register for a 12-hour home nursing course which will open Tuesday, Oct. 3, under sponsorship of the Weber county chapter, Amer¬ican Red Cross. Registration may be accom¬plished by telephoning 46,01 or ap¬pearing at the chapter home, 1961 Washington, said Mrs. E. J. P. Rowse, chairman of the office nurs¬ing committee. "Young mothers are in need of simple nursing skills which will be taught in the course," Mrs. Rowse said. "The new stream¬lined method of teaching gives the fundamentals of nursing and home care of the sick In an interesting manner," she added. Instructor for the class will be Mrs. O. C. Hammond," registered nurse. The classes will be taught for three: weeks on Tuesdays and. Thursdays at one-thirty p. m. at the chapter home. "The course affords an 'oppor¬tunity for personnal instruction, practice as you learn activity and tends toward giving courage and confidence in emergencies," Mrs. Rowse pointed out.