Word: carotid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DeBakey and his team actually performed operations on 69 victims. In some cases they reamed out carotid and other arteries leading to the brain, in others they bypassed a completely shut-down stretch of artery with a Dacron tube to carry blood from a lower stretch of healthy artery to a higher one. Among the 69 cases they found 13 for whom they could do nothing, and had five failures, but in 51 cases they reported success. In some instances this was as great as relief from a substantial degree of paralysis, or loss of speech, or partial blindness...
...white-and-gold costume, ordered him wheeled into the operating room. There, with two assisting surgeons, he assessed the damage: four broken ribs, possibly a broken fibula (calf bone), a ten-inch gash from the right ear, which was ripped open, through the area of the parotid gland and carotid artery almost to the armpit. The outlook: muy grave-critical...
...time, she was always within call. Freud himself was not told that examination of the removed tissues revealed cancer, although more surgery was soon necessary for "an unmistakably malignant ulcer in the hard palate which invaded ... the upper part of the lower jaw and even the cheek." First, a carotid artery was tied off, and glands beneath the upper jawbone (some of them already suspiciously enlarged) were removed. In the second stage of the operation, after slitting the lip and cheek wide open, the surgeon removed the whole upper jaw and palate on the right side, which threw the nasal...
...Catheter. With his giraffe securely caged, Dr. Goetz listened to its 25-lb. heart and located the carotid artery, which runs up the neck. He made an incision in the hide, opened the artery and applied a specially built manometer (blood-pressure-measuring instrument) with a catheter 12 ft. long. On its tip was a bit of radioactive cobalt, so its progress could be followed with a Geiger counter as it moved up the artery...
Last week Mrs. Rogers was sitting up in bed, and showed no ill effects from her highly unusual accident and loss of blood. Other arteries, including the left carotid, had taken over the job of supplying blood to the head...