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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 3
NOVEMBER, 1967
DURHAM, NC
CLINICAL RESEARCH II
SOON TO “OPEN FOR BUSINESS”
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The second floor is an extension of CR I; houses
radio—Isotope and biochemistry labs. And moving ori to
the first floor, the Dept, of Surgery has pathology,
chemistry and pediatric lab facilities. And "in our
area," Dr. Saul Boyarsky reported, "we plan to establish
a urological physiology laboratory to do combined
cystoscopy, cinefluorography, electromanometry or pres
sure studies. Provision will be made for bioengineer
ing analyses of the results and we will have a supporting
bacteriology, biochemistry and histochemistry labora
tory. The laboratory is outfitted to study patients and
will have a small animal operating room in addition.
The facility will be used to study bladder, ureter and
kidney patients who may need urological surgery, who
may have pyelonephritis, children who may have congen
ital urological defects and patients with hydronephro
sis or renal calculi,"
"In planning Clinical Research II, we had CR III in
mind," Mr. Swanson said, upon completion of this latest
project. "The building forms a continuous link with
the future hospital via the wide corridor at the ground
floor level, and its contemporary gothic design is in
tended to complement the Main Entrance Building." CR
II (below the arrow) is four stories high and has
ground floor and sub-basement levels.
The fourth floor will house facilities for group psy
chotherapy, clinical neurology, data processing, and
the Medical Center Psychological Assessment Lab, "rep
resenting one of the first attempts in the country to
evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a central
laboratory, staffed mainly by specially trained psycho
logical technicians, devoted to meeting efficiently the
total needs of a large Medical Center for behavioral
and psychological assessment of patients and research
subjects," according to Dr. Robert C. Carson, Head of
the Division of Medical Psychology.
The third floor will have several projects under the
direction of the Dept, of Surgery. Among them, accor
ding to Dr. David C, Sabiston, Jr., "new permanent op
erating facilities in Hyperbaric Oxygenation; labora
tories for Homotransplantation for further investiga
tions into the field of tissue typing for selection of
patients to receive homographs; several laboratories
devoted to the study of the coronary circulation, ex
perimental atherosclerosis, studies in the denervated
heart; an Investigative program concerned with the app
lication of computers to surgery; an orthopaedic res
earch lab; and a laboratory for urological research."
On the ground floor, the new hyperbaric-hypobaric
environmental facilities will be subjected to detailed
acceptance testing during the next month, prior to occ
upancy and use by interested investigators at Duke.
"The facility is multi-compartmented," Dr. Herbert A.
Saltzman stated, "and has an extended environmental cap'
ability ranging from an altitude equivalent of 157,500
feet to an increased atmospheric pressure similar to
that experienced by divers submerged to a depth of
1,000 feet in sea water. Included in the design is a
special "wet pot" compartment designed for studies in
a hyperbaric liquid environment*
"We anticipate continued, moderate clinical activity,
emphasizing vascular surgery including surgery of the
infant with congenital cyanotic heart disease, treat
ment of gas gangrene, and clinical evaluations of pa
tients with a variety of vascular illnesses. Investi
gators will continue to emphasize quantitative studies
of the biomedical response to changes in environmental
pressure or gas concentration. We anticipate these
studies will have relevance to national aerospace and
hydrospace commitments, as well as to the treatment of
medical illness."
And, in the sub-basement, there are research facili
ties in neurology, veterinary medicine, and Dr. Andrew
Wallace advised that he will have two lab functions in
the new CR II. "One will be pursuing study on the phy
siology of the heart. The second, to develop techni
ques used-.'for clinical investigation- of the Cardiac In
tensive Care Unit." Onward, to CR III...