Word: anestheticized
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Even so, Snow's map, says Johnson, "was a transformative moment in the history of cities." And it was a remarkable success for "consilient" thinking, a philosophy formulated in the 1840s in which a cohesive theory from one discipline is used to inform ideas from another. Snow's work on...
Last year Dr. Ron Miller was in a hospital pre-op unit doing what he has done every week for more than three decades: administering an anesthetic to a patient headed for surgery. Miller served as an anesthesiologist in the Vietnam War and now chairs the department of anesthesia at...
As for the type of sedation a doctor will aim for in a given operation, there are no hard-and-fast rules. In general, operating on the extremities offers more options than operating on the body's core, but the dividing lines between levels of anesthesia can be blurry. Once...
But choosing to stay awake doesn't mean a patient is free of the risks of anesthesia. "We can get in trouble with a local anesthetic," says Zapol. "We can get in trouble with a spinal anesthetic," which keeps pain signals from getting to the brain but doesn't make...
THE INJURY Barbaro's disastrous misstep shattered three bones and dislocated a joint. Luckily, he did not injure his veins or arteries. Now he must fight off infection during recovery SAVING BARBARO 1 In a 4.5-hour operation, surgeons inserted 27 screws and a 15-in. (38 cm) plate in...