Word: flagg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paluel Joseph Flagg, No. 1 U.S. anesthetist, recently warned his colleagues that in the Army & Navy the delicate work of administering anesthesia is often mishandled. Under present Army conditions the customary teamwork between surgeon and anesthetist does not exist. And without teamwork there may be trouble...
...best fitted to resuscitate people, to bring them out of unconsciousness," insists Dr. Flagg, "is the man who already knows how to put them in." He takes as a personal challenge the fact that over 50,000 people die every year in the U.S. of asphyxiation. For years his Society for the Prevention of Asphyxial Death has been working, despite a lack of funds, for a wider knowledge of resuscitation techniques by laymen and especially doctors...
Best remedy for the situation, said Dr. Flagg, is for the Surgeons General to specify what anesthetic should be used under every circumstance. Disputes can then be settled by a rule book, and the integrity of the anesthetist will survive...
Systematized Army anesthesia is not the first cause that Dr. Flagg has vehemently embraced. The growing stature and autonomy of U.S. anesthetists is to a large extent a result of his years of untiring research and example. In 1936, mainly at his instigation, the A.M.A. at last formed a committee on asphyxia...
White-bearded Dr. Flagg, 56 and the father of twelve, is the man who brought Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel (now working for Vichyfrance) together to develop their mechanical heart. He also suggested to aviation engineers the principles (first embodied in T.W.A.'s Stratoliner) on which planes could safely take passengers into high altitudes without asphyxiating them. Asphyxiation is Dr. Flagg's special horror, and he thinks the subject should be combined with anesthesia into the science of pneumatology (Dr. Carrel's word...