Word: anestheticized
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Equipment, Old Style. An operation in those days was often performed in a patient's house. The surgeon sent nurses ahead to prepare a room, the surgeon brought his instruments in a metal case to be sterilized on the stove, the family doctor gave the anesthetic. Dr. Erdmann once...
The patient is given only a local anesthetic at the temples-the brain itself is insensitive-and the doctors encourage him to talk, sing or recite poems and prayers while the operation is in progress. As his lobes are sliced, he becomes drowsier, more confused and incoherent. When his replies...
No doctor was aboard when a sailor on a U.S. submarine was stricken with acute appendicitis somewhere in the South Pacific. But a member of the crew-the chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his...
The root of the trouble is a difference of medical opinion. There are many anesthetics, each with its pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications...
Best remedy for the situation, said Dr. Flagg, is for the Surgeons General to specify what anesthetic should be used under every circumstance. Disputes can then be settled by a rule book, and the integrity of the anesthetist will survive.