Word: anesthesia
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...clock read 6:15 a.m. when the patient was wheeled into the operating suite. A team of ten masked, green-gowned doctors made final preparations. By 6:50 a.m., the patient was asleep under general anesthesia. Ten minutes later, the chief surgeon murmured "scalpel?" and the operation was under way. There was a swift, sure incision, then a slow, deliberate excision. By 9:15 a.m., the last suture was in place, the operation complete. "It's wonderful," breathed one of the doctors, "just wonderful...
...boons for patients with certain types of heart disease was the discovery that a simple, direct-current electric shock can restore a twitching ("fibrillating") heart to a normal pumping beat (TIME, Nov. 30, 1962). The most notable drawback is that this has usually required the preliminary use of general anesthesia, which is dangerous for heart patients. Now, in the New England Journal of Medicine, two George Washington University doctors report that a simpler and safer substitute for general anesthesia is readily available...
...less important than the operation itself are the study and preparation of the patient beforehand, and his care and study while he is recovering. DeBakey interrupts pre-operation conferences for quick trips to the intensive-care area to check on patients who may be just coming out of anesthesia or getting ready to take their first hesitant steps...
...recent years, eye surgeons are still haunted by the fear that during removal of a cataract the casing of the lens will break and spill some of its contents into the eyeball. Several ophthalmic surgeons are now using an especially small probe (cryostylet) in the eye. Inserted under local anesthesia, the stylet adheres to the cataractous lens, freezes it, and permits removal with no danger of spillage, because there is no liquid left to spill, and no damage to the remainder of the eye particularly important for patients with sight in only...
...gland may hypertrophy (grow to excessive size) and squeeze the urethra shut by simple pressure, or it may become cancerous. At the Millard Fillmore and Veterans Administration hospitals in Buffalo, Dr. Ward Soanes and Dr. Maurice J. Gonder have devised special instruments and an ingenious technique. They give light anesthesia and introduce the cold cannula through the urethra. To make sure of the placement, the surgeon's finger can check the position of a button on the side of the probe as it nears the prostate. The cold is then turned on. The patient needs a catheter (a plastic...