Word: anestheticized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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 operation that Maharashtra's doctors were performing in such numbers last week is a vasectomy, a simple surgical procedure that is less costly, complicated and confining than female sterilization. The surgeon merely snips off a small section of the vasa deferentia, the tiny tubes that transport sperm from...
So they decided on the direct-puncture method. With only a local anesthetic, the job took ten minutes. Surgeon Erwin Jennings, 38, put the king-sized needle between Fairman's fourth and fifth ribs, aimed for the right ventricle. Jennings knew when he had hit it, because electrical impulses...
Virginia-born, Scottish-educated Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830), practicing in the tiny (pop. 1,000) frontier town, had dared what the most eminent surgeons in the capitals of Europe would not have attempted. Patient Crawford, who had been given only opium pills and remained conscious, reciting psalms, during the operation...
As used so far in 70 cases by Dr. Dotter in Portland and in 30 by Dr. Gensini in Syracuse, the procedure begins with insertion of a thick, hollow needle (under local anesthetic) into the femoral artery. Through the needle the diagnostician passes a flexible steel spring, like a plumber...