40 years ago in the AORN Journal - Perioperative Time Capsule

AORN Journal, May, 2003

One article supplies details on the upcoming AORN Congress to be held in Dallas, March 1 to 5, 1964. This marked the first time Congress would be held in a month other than February. * An architect writes that the problem of wound infection is the greatest single influence on surgical suite design.

* "News in ORbit" reports that the US Supreme Court declined to review a decision by the New Jersey State Supreme Court that upheld a state's right to order blood transfusions for a child if the child's parents refuse them on religious grounds. * An article about emergency surgery for newborns says that infants withstand major surgical procedures best during the first four days of life.