Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, five years ago proved the point. Dr. Mark P. Yeager randomly divided 53 intensive-care patients into two groups. One received morphine by ordinary intravenous catheters, while the other had morphine delivered epidurally, through a catheter placed near the spinal cord. The epidural patients, who were virtually pain-free, spent an average of just 2.5 days in the intensive- care unit and a total of 11.4 days in the hospital, while the other group required 5.7 days in the ICU and 15.8 days of hospitalization. In dollars, the difference...
...analgesics on the market, pain specialists have been ingenious about expanding the use of existing drugs. Surgeons, for instance, have learned that by putting a local anesthetic directly into the wound during and immediately after an operation, they prevent acute pain from getting established. "You never let the spinal cord see the pain messages," explains Berde. "It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain...
...STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND," said the chief engineer, "why that explosive cord wasn't detected on the preflight check...
Currently very popular is the leather cord within African trading bead on it, she said. Also ingreat demand are amber products. Chanel-typenecklaces with big pearls and beaded clothing...
Bush, who had no previous experience withbungee-cord jumping, promised he would leap everyThursday night, but did not repeat the stuntyesterday...