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Those tests would try the patience of any patient. Throughout the flight, Glenn's heart rate, respiration, blood volume and pressure will be monitored regularly. Doctors on Earth want to analyze his blood for immune function and protein levels, and this will require taking so many samples that throughout the...
Although the use of performance enhancers is prohibited in most sports, it isn't just a question of cheating. The drugs can kill athletes--or make them very sick and shorten their career. Yet they keep taking the stuff, relying on so-called drug gurus to dose them in undetectable...
Berde and his colleagues inserted a spinal catheter and gave the boy a local anesthetic and an opiate. The patient had been screaming; now he became comfortable and alert and was able to go home. Although that treatment had been used to control pain in adults, Berde says, "I don...
On June 17, 1996, with Murdock set up on the fifth floor of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, the trial began. About four hours later, the patient went home, a catheter in his chest, to await the verdict. Tarnowski called that night to tell him that the purging...
...standard procedure to monitor the heart in critically ill patients may do more harm than good. Pulmonary-artery CATHETERIZATION--in which a catheter stays in the heart for several days--raises by 21% the risk of patients' dying within 30 days...