Word: anestheticized
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The operations performed on two successive days at the modern Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital in Michigan could not be considered dangerous. Nonetheless they turned into a nightmare of anesthetic error, and when the nightmare ended, three patients were dead.
Violent Response. Unlike many hospitals, which make up a fresh batch of anesthetic for each patient, Pontiac Osteopathic practice was to mix Surital* in half-pint quantities, enough for at least ten patients. When Kimberly Ann Bruneel, 8, was wheeled into Operating Room No. 1 to have her appendix removed...
After 21 years of cautious testing Laborit reports that the intravenously administered drug enhances the effect of anesthetics, thus lowering the amount necessary for a patient, and thereby lowering the danger. It reduces inflammation, has an anticonvulsive effect useful in treatment of epilepsy, and has a suppressing effect on symptoms...
Advance Planning. Individual drugs are being developed to do the job better than old prescriptions compounded of many ingredients, said Dr. Perry Volpitto, the A.S.A.'s retiring president. "Only a few years ago we were giving patients what some doctors called 'the garbage anesthetic'-a little of...
As his materials have changed, the anesthesiologist's equipment has become as complex as the cockpit of a space capsule. Behind the screen that isolates the patient's head from the rest of his body, the anesthesiologist is surrounded by cylinders of oxygen and anesthetic gases, dials and...