Word: anesthesia
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...just after graduating from medical school. She spent three and a half years operating a clandestine field clinic for communist soldiers in the jungles of Quang Ngai, in what was then South Vietnam, and began keeping a diary shortly after arrival. "Operated on one case of appendicitis with inadequate anesthesia," reads her first entry, dated April 8, 1968. "I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once ... He even smiled to encourage...
Thanks for bringing attention to an issue we rarely give thought to, despite being disgusted by reports of female circumcision. The surgery causes severe pain and trauma, yet many doctors still don't use anesthesia. The genital health of European males is comparable to that of U.S. males, and it is better in some ways--for example, HIV infection rates are lower among (mostly intact) European males than among (mostly circumcised) U.S. males...
...principle of opening a channel to deliver the agent is a new and very promising development,ā€¯ said Igor Kissin, professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School...
...team is now looking to make compounds with similar though less painful effects. Clifford J. Woolf, a professor of anesthesia research at Harvard Medical School, was also a key contributor to the study...
...brute force to pop the hip back. My back always hurts for a week after I do one. Spasms of the huge muscles around the patient's hip must be controlled with intravenous sedation - or else the entire procedure has to be done in the operating room under general anesthesia. But taking Nick to the OR would involve a long wait (in pain), tests, risks from the drugs, paperwork and high costs - all of which I wanted to avoid...