Word: anesthesia
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...every step there were refinements and improvements in more familiar medical techniques. The X ray which first showed Dr. James A. Berbos that Mrs. Fischer was bearing a fivesome was taken with high-speed film developed since World War II-safer for both mother and babies. The light anesthesia used during delivery was better controlled and adjusted. Doctors now know that the right oxygen concentration for preemies is around 40%. And the five little Fischers were promptly placed in five Isolettes, incubators developed in 1948 to give automatic and precise control of temperature, humidity and oxygen strength. There they will...
Flush the Arteries. Even before the boy, already under anesthesia, was hustled to the operating theater, his arm was put in a tub of chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles. Ev Knowles's shoulder joint was intact. The break in the humerus (the only bone in the upper arm) was between two and three inches below the joint. Says M.G.H. Spokesman Dr. Robert Shaw: "It was as though the arm had been laid...
...idea is that if children can change their parents often enough, they will never work up a good Freudian hatred for them. Pain has been abolished through some kind of autohypnosis; local surgeons operate without anesthesia by drugs...
...John Kander, James and William Goldman) begins where other musicals leave off; that is, its first lines are "Will you marry me?" and "Yes." In the real world a healing numbness sets in after these words are spoken, but Affair's attempt to convey love's anesthesia at first brings out only the authors' thinnest whimsies. The affianced couple (Larry Kert and Rita Gardner) are a chilly pair, and the opening songs seem less clever than the stage furniture, which wheels magically around during scene changes...
...Fast Recovery. Among his first 100 hypnotized patients, whose ages ranged from 4 to 83, were 25 who had only minor operations, usually under local anesthesia in outpatient departments. All but one responded well to hypnosis. The biggest group of 57 were hospitalized for surgery of medium severity. It was among these that Dr. Kolouch had his most satisfying success. All were more relaxed during anesthesia and on the operating table. They made fast and uneventful recoveries, with little need for pain-killing drugs. In cases of thyroid removal or hernia operations, the number of doses of opiates was half...