Word: anesthesiologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agrees to be hypnotized. Last week Surgeon Kolouch finished compiling the records of 100 patients on whom he has performed surgery with hypnosis, and concluded that in 81 cases the trance experience had saved patients anxiety, pain and money, and had speeded recovery. It also helped the surgeon, anesthesiologist and nurses...
...devised procedure, such a patient gets an anesthetic injected into his veins, and a rubber hose is threaded down his windpipe so that he will not choke while asleep. His eardrums are pricked so that oxygen pressure will not perforate them. Monitoring devices, including a microphone that allows the anesthesiologist to listen to respiration, are attached to the body. The patient is put on a stretcher that is placed in the oxygen chamber...
Relaxed from a tranquilizer, the 65-year-old woman, an abdominal cancer victim, lay quietly on an operating table in the University of Mississippi's Medical Center. Anesthesiologist Leonard Fabian opened her mouth, sprayed a local anesthetic on her throat, inserted an "airway tube" to ensure unobstructed breathing. Under the watchful eye of Surgeon James Hardy, Dr. Fabian attached a tiny electrode to each of the woman's temples. At his signal, a technician turned a control on the face of a small box from which thin wires trailed out to the electrodes. Within 60 seconds the woman...