Word: anesthetist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, the King was injected with an anesthetic (probably sodium pentothal) by Anesthetist Robert Machray. He was wheeled to the operating room and, if Surgeon Price Thomas followed his customary procedure, laid out three-quarters prone, his left side propped up slightly with pillows...
...sheath intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs sometimes have to be spread, but not removed, to give the surgeon's hands more room.) The snipped rib was laid in a waste pan for the "un-sterile nurse" to take away. Anesthetist Machray placed a rubber tube in the King's windpipe to supply an anesthetic gas (such as cyclopropane), under positive pressure, to keep the lungs inflated...
Secretly the Shah summoned Dr. Claude Forkner of Cornell University to Iran and, on Forkner's recommendation for an immediate appendectomy, sent off to the U.S. for New York Hospital's Surgeon in Chief Frank Glenn, plus another U.S. surgeon, plus an expert anesthetist, plus three U.S. nurses...
...Quick Cut. A few minutes without oxygen would damage his brain beyond repair, so there was no time to take him to a sterile operating room. The anesthetist promptly slipped a tube through the patient's mouth into the windpipe, started pumping oxygen into it. Dr. Owens grabbed a scalpel and cut open the left chest. He reached in, pushed the left lung aside and grasped the patient's heart. Sixty times a minute he squeezed the heart, "with the pressure applied from the bottom up, like milking a cow backwards." With each squeeze, blood was pumped through...
...later Dr. Stanley finally got the up-to-date, four-story hospital San Quentin boasts today. Over the years he had also brought a new standard of medical care to the convicts. Stanley began using spinal anesthesia (which he could administer unaided) long before most doctors, because the prison anesthetist (a convict) was a drunkard who habitually drank up all the medical alcohol in the surgery...