Word: anesthesia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monkeys were shot through the head for a study of gunshot wounds. > Monkeys were operated on without anesthesia so doctors could study shock...
...past. MacKay agreed not only to repair the cracked bone but also to replace the artificial joint. As he told the Long Island newspaper Newsday: "I kept repeating in my mind, 'Let's get this guy's hip back together right.' He had been under anesthesia since 8 a.m., and could have stopped breathing any time." Indeed, before Mirando left the operating room again, he had been out for more than ten hours. Says MacKay, who has been granted immunity from prosecution for his cooperation with investigators: "After it was over, I never wanted to touch...
...Academy of Family Physicians, has opposed most midwifery for a variety of reasons. Among them: the difficulty in regulating midwife procedures, the belief that women get better basic care in hospitals and the fact that many deliveries may require aid that few midwives can provide in the home. Examples: anesthesia; delivery by cesarean section; forceps delivery; episiotomy, a surgical procedure in which an incision is made from the vulva through the perineum to widen the birth canal...
...prescribed for a long list of crimes, ranging from theft, armed robbery and insulting the modesty of a woman to political activities, labor organizing and striking. General Zia ul-Haq, the new chief administrator of martial law, decreed that there would be no amputations without his approval and that anesthesia would be used. Nonetheless, the threat was apparently sufficient to cause a sharp drop in crime...
John Bunker, a former Medical School professor who edited the report and now professor of Anesthesia at Stanford University, said on Monday that indicators of the necessity of surgery should be both quantitative and qualitative...