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...back to the early days of ether and chloroform and whose only function was to render the patient in sensible to pain. Today's anesthesiologist is responsible for the whole man-his breathing and his circulation. In the past dozen years, the growth of knowledge and skills among anesthesia specialists has been greater than in practically any other branch of medicine. When the American Society of Anesthesiologists held its annual meeting in Denver last week, the trade talk of members made it clear that while their operating-room techniques continue to improve at a remarkable pace, their responsibility...
Justifiably Proud. Dr. Jay Jacoby, head of anesthesia at Marquette University School of Medicine, explained that the management of intractable pain promises to become an increasingly important part of anesthesiologists' work, as the aged population increases and, with it, the incidence of cancer. Dr. Bonica reported that he is concentrating on the relief of intractable pain from arthritis and neuralgia as well as cancer. The approach is usually by "permanently anesthetizing" nerves with injections of alcohol or phenol...
...anesthesia is without its dangers, but the answer to the patient's perennial question, "Will I wake up?", is becoming more assuredly affirmative each year. The number of deaths directly caused by anesthesia is impossible to determine because all the patients are sick to begin with. Though the total number of deaths that occur under general anesthesia is still significant, it is steadily declining even with more-and more radical-operations, a fact that makes anesthesiologists justifiably proud...
Perhaps the greatest measure of the President's faith in his judgment was the role he played when Lyndon Johnson underwent surgery. During the hours when Johnson's mind was dulled by anesthesia, somebody had to be empowered to decide whether to transfer the office of the presidency to Vice President Hubert Humphrey in case of a crisis. That somebody was Moyers...
With the development of antibiotics and safer anesthesia, removal of a gall bladder is now a safe though still a major operation. Only about one-half of 1% of patients die as a result of the operation, and most of these are in poor health as the result of other diseases. The President was in good health. Physicians saw no reason to suspect any connection between his gall-bladder trouble and his bouts of kidney stones in 1948 and early 1955; he had made a full recovery from his heart attack, which came later in 1955. The danger...