Word: caesarean
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...their physicians' and surgeons' fees). The types of cases studied were carefully restricted to those on which good doctors rarely disagree about what treatment is proper and best. This left little room for argument. And there could be no argument at all in cases of unnecessary Caesarean deliveries, or of Caesareans poorly performed. Some patients, the study group found, underwent drastic surgery without even having had necessary laboratory tests beforehand. Others, after admission to a hospital, waited longer for their operations than they should have...
...difficulties are far greater with mammals. To get a germfree line started, researchers have to deliver germfree young by Caesarean section. Just before the pregnant animal would normally deliver, it is anesthetized, strapped to a miniature operating table, and its abdomen shaved and sterilized. Two sterilized tanks are prepared and connected by a sterile tunnel. The animal is slipped into the operating tank. A surgeon puts his hands in the rubber gauntlets that are sealed into portholes in the tank's sides. A set of sterile instruments is already in place. He delivers the young, drops them into...
...showed mock gruffness with student nurses who tied granny knots in scarflike slings. He was so tense as he scrubbed up to do a Caesarean operation that a nurse had to stand by his side and put the in evitable cigarette into his mouth for an occasional drag. He almost barked, "Take the baby away from me now!" as soon as he saw that it was alive though blue from oxygen deprivation. While he stitched up the mother, he snapped at the nurses in their own Shan dialect - they were having difficulty, even using oxygen, in getting the baby...
...masculinization claims highly exaggerated," said that unfavorable changes in the menstrual cycle occur no more frequently among sportswomen (about 10%) than among nonathletic females. He also studied 172 pregnant women athletes, found complications of pregnancy less frequent than among nonathletes. Labor time was generally shorter, and the frequency of Caesarean sections half that of less active women...
...would be well, as the ambulance attendants tucked her into a litter. At Georgetown University Hospital, just ten blocks away, the young woman who will be the nation's next First Lady was taken to the operating room. Like Caroline, the baby was to be delivered by Caesarean section...