Word: anestheticized
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When halothane was introduced as an anesthetic in 1956, it seemed nearly perfect. Unlike ether and cyclopropane, it is both nonflammable and nonexplosive-a valuable asset in the modern operating room crammed with electronic gadgetry. It causes patients a minimum of discomfort and, it seemed, could do them no harm...
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...
Fast Recovery. Every anesthetic has such potential dangers that it must be used with caution. With halothane, the dosage is especially critical. But it won 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...
Alerted U.S. anesthesiologists are planning to go right on using it, but cautiously. It probably should not be given twice within two or three months to the same patient. Physicians will watch, both before and after an operation, for signs of liver disorder. Stanford's Dr. John Bunker, one...
Husband Philip, advertising promotion man for the Lima (Ohio) Citizen, was taking a nap when Barbara felt the bag of waters break. A registered nurse and already mother of three, she calmly phoned for an ambulance before awakening her husband. And at St. Rita's Hospital, where Dr. Vernon...