Word: anesthesiologists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Multiple Medicines. Since the swashbuckling practitioners of a century ago popularized ether, chloroform and nitrous oxide ("laughing gas") in surgery and dentistry, the anesthetic art has become vastly more complex and has developed into a new specialty. Only an M.D. can be an anesthesiologist. Except in emergencies, he studies the patient in advance of operations, to decide what anesthetics will be safest and most effective...
...down. In the morning, he may get more of the same, or a morphine-type drug, or both. Next, atropine to help keep mucus from clogging his air passages. In the operating room at last, a clout of barbiturate (often thiopental sodium) to put him to sleep. Then the anesthesiologist rigs the patient with a mask-or, especially for chest operations, a tube inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases: an intravenous drug resembling curare (arrow poison) relaxes his muscles. Only when the anesthesiologist nods assent can the surgeon make...
...wide approval because it quickly gets the patient to a level of unconsciousness at which the operation can begin. Patients "come out" faster and feel better after operations, because they usually have less nausea and other discomforts. After years of experience with it, an eminent British anesthesiologist dubbed halothane "the universal anesthetic...
...Bernhard works in an 8 ft. by 10 ft. compartment of the chamber, with an assistant surgeon, an anesthesiologist and a nurse. After an operation, the patient and surgical team are decompressed even more carefully than current Navy practice calls for; the process of surfacing from a "dry dive'' that reaches 80 ft., or almost 3½ times normal atmospheric pressure (about 50 Ibs. per sq. in.), is stretched out over an hour. Says Surgeon Gross: "Operating under pressure gives us one golden hour to achieve results impossible under normal conditions. We are going to hear...
Wads of Trouble. "We'll try to keep her breathing,'' promised the anesthesiologist. "We'll try." At 2 a.m., three hours after she was born, Denise was carried into the operating room. As soon as he sliced into her abdomen. Surgeon Robert Beveridge saw that her troubles were even worse than he had suspected. "Her organs looked as if someone had just wadded them in his fist and thrown them in there,'' he said. He drained off the abscess that was blocking the infant's small bowel. Next Beveridge sewed a tube into...