Word: cardiac
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...emergency resuscitation team response. Different hospitals use different names; some use numbers, some colors, but they are all ways of instantly telling the people who work there, without scaring patients and visitors, that there's an emergency. Code red is typically a fire in the hospital; code blue is cardiac arrest. I was three weeks out of medical school, a brand new surgical intern (that is, a first-year resident) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, when my days and nights began to be punctuated by the heady rush of codes...
...Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest Even surgical residents used to the heady rush of "codes" occasionally encounter emergencies that throw them for a total loop
...Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest Even surgical residents used to the heady rush of "codes" occasionally encounter emergencies that throw them for a total loop
...with surgeons who have trained in the U.S. or Britain, which is a great comfort to American patients (the irony is that 25% of physicians in the U.S. got their M.D.s abroad). Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center in Delhi, for instance, was founded by an authority on robotic cardiac surgery, Dr. Naresh Trehan, formerly of New York University...
Students run the risk of suffering from a host of potential side effects when they take stimulant drugs prescribed for ADHD—including cardiac problems, insomnia, high blood pressure, and sexual dysfunction...