Word: anesthesia
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...John Hedley-White, who has been a clinical associate in Anesthesia, has been appointed associate professor of Anesthesia...
...pocket-sized, 2-lb. gadget that can serve as a resuscitator, inhalator or anesthesia machine was described by Western Reserve University's Dr. Robert A. Hingson. Already used in more than 7,000 cases for short-term (five to 15 min.) anesthesia, it delivers a nonexplosive mixture of cyclopropane, oxygen and helium. Patients thus anesthetized have had fractures set, babies delivered by high forceps, and kidneys removed. Dr. Hingson has made it work at 12,000 ft. in the Andes, and medical student volunteers have used it as an inhalator to escape noxious gases...
Closing the Ring. The surgeon's dogged efforts to conquer these defects turned into one of the great campaigns in medical history. Despite revolutionary progress in all surgery during the '30s-thanks to improved anesthesia and transfusion techniques plus antibacterial drugs-older surgeons still recoiled from the heart. Younger men braved its defenses; with rare exceptions heart surgery is still dominated by young men. After the first premature frontal attacks-nearly all patients died -the pioneers began to close the ring around the heart by working on the nearby great vessels: as one of them puts it, "circling...
...girl with a big hole between her auricles received standard anesthesia, was then put in a 6-ft. kitchen-type freezer until her body temperature dropped to 75°. The patient's circulation was slowed at first, then stopped by clamps. Bailey slit open the auricle, put a patch over the hole and closed the heart, with two minutes to spare against his eight-minute limit. But because of air trapped in the heart, the patient died. History's first truly open-heart operation in a dry field looked like a failure...
...Anesthesia is kept to a minimum, so that the patient is already "coming out" at the end of the operation, thereby reducing strain on the heart and further reducing the pneumonia risk...