Word: anesthesia
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...most effective clinical use of the drug. In an ironic twist, Freud abandoned his interest in cocaine just after he suggested that a colleague, Karl ("Coca") Roller, begin experimenting with its use in easing the pain of eye surgery. So it was Koller and not Freud who invented local anesthesia...
Anesthetics can be given safely to most surgical patients. But for a small minority, anesthesia can trigger a rare hereditary disorder called malignant hyperthermia - a potentially lethal rise in body temperature. A group of Boston doctors reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine that malignant hyperthermia can be brought under control by use of a heart-lung machine to cool the blood. But the condition can also be avoided by presurgical testing. Researchers have identified the genetic defect that causes the ailment and have devised a means of identifying victims: exposing a small sample of a patient...
Produced by WGBH'S Michael Ambrosino, the series was modeled on the BBC's Horizon series. It also benefits from the expertise of many leading scientists who, says Ambrosino, "are starving for the opportunity to portray science accurately." In Strange Sleep, a dramatization of the discovery of anesthesia, eminent Bostonian physicians did a remarkably credible job of acting as they portrayed their medical predecessors. Occasionally, as in The Crab Nebula, the program's accuracies are a bit too complex for laymen to follow. But for the most part the shows accomplish their purpose: to stimulate the mind...
OUTWARDLY, Lady Bird is as composed and gracious as she was in the White House, greeting callers with the same wide smile and vibrant enthusiasm that she displayed when Lyndon was alive. That part is not difficult, she explains, because "grief carries its own anesthesia. It gets you over...
...People's Republic of China with enthusiastic reports on the country's hospitals and clinics, interest in Chinese medicine has increased enormously in the U.S. Doctors at several major U.S. medical centers have organized programs to study acupuncture, the Chinese technique of treating illness and inducing anesthesia by inserting needles at certain points in the body. Politicians, public health officials and hospital administrators are trying to learn more about how the Chinese cope with disease and provide medical care. To help spread the word about Chinese medicine, a group of American and European physicians has decided to publish...