Word: brachial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure the blood would have a way to get out. With neat and delicate sutures, they stitched the arm's two main veins to their extensions in Ev's shoulder (see diagram). Next, they opened a way for the blood to get in by rejoining the major (brachial) artery. Says Dr. Shaw: "When we took off the clamps from the artery above the break, we rejoiced at the pinking up of the arm as the blood ran through it." It was just 3½ hours since Ev Knowles's arm had been severed...
Simple Dexterity. Prime element in he Sones-Shirey method is the catheter, a snakelike, 31-in. tube that tapers in diameter from 3.2 mm. down to 1.6 mm. at its tip. The catheter is first inserted in the patient's brachial artery, inside the elbow of the right arm, and maneuvered up the arm into the chest, until its passage is stopped by the aortic valve, directly above the heart. Except for a dull ache in the elbow (local anesthesia is administered) the operation is painless Because the arterial nerves are insensitive to the catheter's presence...
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