Word: anesthetist
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...women would die in labor. Fear of birth pain is thus legitimate and it is no wonder that many women elect to have C-sections - especially when the procedure is over in about 40 minutes and feels no more uncomfortable, in the words of an anesthetist in one of Hong Kong's top maternity hospitals, "than someone rummaging around in your tummy." When cost is not an issue, women express even greater interest in cesareans. In Hong Kong, just over 45% of private-hospital births are surgical, compared to a territory-wide rate...
...MEDICINE 275 Number of patients Spanish anesthetist Juan Maeso infected with the hepatitis-C virus by injecting them with the same needle he used to inject himself with morphine 1,933 Length in years of a prison term Maeso has been sentenced to by Valencia regional court judges. Under Spanish law, the most time he can serve is 20 years
...operating-room anesthesia is exploding," says Dr. Orin Guidry, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. It's not that doctors are doing heart bypasses or hip replacements or radical mastectomies on an outpatient basis. "If you're going to take a person apart," says Dr. Warren Zapol, anesthetist in chief at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, "you need to control the airways, paralyze the muscles and do things that amateurs don't want...
Such units generally consist of a trauma surgeon, an orthopedic surgeon, an emergency physician, an anesthetist, nurses and technicians. They carry with them a rudimentary field hospital in 70-lb. rucksacks. Their supplies include 5-lb. portable ultrasound units that allow quick and accurate diagnosis of internal bleeding and collapsed lungs. The ultrasound devices also can be used to locate shrapnel deeply buried in a thigh or torso. The teams also carry football-size electronic equipment for monitoring a patient's vital signs, small anesthetic-delivery devices and portable ventilators that help a wounded soldier breathe...
...rich list, making her $50 million wealthier than the Queen of England. Her personal life has picked up too. She has bought multimillion-dollar houses in London, Edinburgh and the Scottish hills near Perth. And at the end of 2001, Rowling, 37, married Neil Murray, 31, a steady, brainy anesthetist she had met through a mutual friend. Last March they had a son David, who joins Jessica, 11, the daughter from her brief first marriage. Rowling has admitted that--no surprise--Harry is her favorite boy's name, but she wisely avoided saddling her son with that lifelong invitation...