Re: Future of whirlpool

October 1, 2005

No better resource than real life experience. We did the same thing about

10 years ago with a room dedicated to a hubbard tank and a smaller,

portable whirlpool. We have long since removed the hubbard and have filled

the room with more useful treatment equipment. It works but makes for a

very piece-meal look to our dept. We wish we could go back to those couple

of one hour meetings that determined the fate of this space and make a

better decision.

Jeff

Newton Medical Center

At 05:58 PM 9/30/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>

>I was recently hired as the physical medicine director for a

>hospital beginning transition to a new hospital in 2007. Most of

>the planning for the new facility was done before I arrived and

>ground breaking started a few months ago. The current plans have

>a " hydrotherapy " room for wound care whirlpool treatments.

>

>I would like to know the groups opinion on the future of whirlpool

>and if they would dedicate an entire room to whirlpool. The volume

>for this service has been extremely low, in fact we do not do much

>if any wound care and the whirlpool has been used only once in the

>last year. I would like to eliminate the room and use it for

>something else. Do any of you have a suggested resource to help me

>argue why there is probably not a future for whirlpool in wound

>care? I would like to convince administration to pay for a change

>order so I can use the space to expand the gym area.

>

>Darrell Messersmith, MSPT

>Director of Physical Medicine

>Platte Valley Medical Center

>

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