Word: bedrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illogical As Bleedings." Most bedrest deaths are caused by big, migrating blood clots which form in veins constricted by the unnatural position. "In the last 300 autopsies on adults in [New York Hospital]," reported Dr. Dock, "15, or 5%, died of pulmonary embolism second ary to thrombi in the legs or pelvis." A little moving around, he asserted, could have saved these people...
...dangerous are eleven other bedrest disorders mentioned at the meeting, e.g., kidney stones, habitual constipation, prostate trouble, bed sores, muscle spasm. The only patients for whom the assembled doctors thought that absolute bed rest might be allowable were: 1) the victims of a few such diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, and 2) children, to whom it does little harm...
...Army Is Right. Dr. Dock urged a return to the nursing customs of Florence Nightingale's day when all but prostrated patients got up for meals, bathroom going, etc. There is evidence that bedrest deaths have gone up since nursing became so expert that a patient never needs to move. He had many good words to say for the Army's convalescent program (TIME, Nov. 15), which makes men move uninjured parts of their bodies as soon as they can, and normally gets head injuries out of bed in a matter of days...