Word: anesthesia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to send an alternating current of about 400 milliamperes through the brain at roughly 100 volts for seven seconds (electric chairs employ a seven-ampere current at 50,000 volts). The resulting convulsion lasts less than a minute. The patient is protected by both muscle-relaxant drugs and anesthesia against one of shock treatment's early hazards: the possibility of arm or leg fractures. The patient experiences loss of recent memory when he regains consciousness, but memory returns quickly to all but elderly patients...
...patient remained internal infection. Despite the surgeons' heroic cleanup of the intestinal spillage from the first bullet, some bacteria remained and caused abscesses. Nine days after the operation, pus began to ooze from the surgical incision, and doctors detected an abscess in the left flank. Under local anesthesia, they cut into and drained the infection. Even with massive doses of antibiotics, Wallace now had peritonitis (a potentially fatal inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity). It was then that the Governor was very near death. To be effective, antibiotics must reach bacteria through the bloodstream. But because...
Another patient was Frederic Newman, 23, a medical student who underwent acupuncture anesthesia for an operation performed last month. Dr. James Fox of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn anesthetized Newman's throat by inserting needles in his hands and feet. With assistants, Fox then rotated the needles for 20 minutes while the patient gradually lost feeling. A small benign growth was then painlessly removed from the left tonsil. According to Newman, similar surgery performed several months earlier under a conventional topical anesthetic had caused him "excruciatingly sharp pain...
Wald described the use of acupuncture in treatment and as anesthesia and the reattachment of severed limbs as the two greatest advances of Chinese medicine...
Today's operation--an open repair suture of Bok's gastrocnemius tendon-- was done under spinal anesthesia because Bok had eaten early this morning. As a result, Bok was awake during the operation and could communicate with Dr. Lowell...