Word: bonica
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...JOHN J. BONICA, M.D. Seattle...
...surgery, does his little assignment, and then disappears," said Dr. Volpitto. "It's different today. Anesthesiologists see the patients in advance, and we play a role with the surgeon in preparing them for what is to come." The A.S.A.'s incoming president, Dr. John J. Bonica, drew attention to another vital role of the anesthesiologist-where surgery is not involved or at least not scheduled. "Suppose," he said, "a patient comes in with barbiturate poisoning. All his automatic nervous system reactions, including those of his breathing center, are depressed. He may die because he is not getting enough...
Justifiably Proud. Dr. Jay Jacoby, head of anesthesia at Marquette University School of Medicine, explained that the management of intractable pain promises to become an increasingly important part of anesthesiologists' work, as the aged population increases and, with it, the incidence of cancer. Dr. Bonica reported that he is concentrating on the relief of intractable pain from arthritis and neuralgia as well as cancer. The approach is usually by "permanently anesthetizing" nerves with injections of alcohol or phenol...
...With every patient, the pain-clinic team has to answer two basic questions. How much of the unbearable pain is really the physical sensation, the pain itself? How much of it is reaction to the pain, a far more complex and elusive psychophysiological process? These are questions, says Dr. Bonica. that many more medical men should be asking themselves. But in all the U.S., there are only two or three clinics like Seattle's. There should be many more, says Dr. Bonica-at least one in every major medical center-because pain is the common denominator in virtually...