Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with no more medication than this: their systems gradually remove the poison from the blood. But Adair's was a stubborn case. After 24 hours he remained in coma. Alarmed, hospital doctors got Adair transferred to U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where researchers had been experimenting on dogs with a fluid-exchange method called peritoneal dialysis, originally devised to tide patients over a kidney shutdown...
...this up with a quart flask containing mineral salts in the same concentration as they occur in the blood, plus antibiotics to check infection. The solution drained into the peritoneal cavity. There it picked up some of the barbiturates by osmosis through the peritoneum. The doctors then drained the fluid, now mixed with barbiturates, back into the flask. They repeated the process with fresh fluid about once an hour for 36 hours, using some 60 qt. of fluid...
Within five hours, Adair's reflexes returned. After about 30 hours he regained partial consciousness and this week was well on the way to recovery. Analyses of the fluid will show how much barbiturate was removed by dialysis: similar trials with artificial kidneys have shown that removal of only 10% to 15% might be enough to get a patient over the hump...
...fight severe burns, modern medicine has experimented with all kinds of remedies-tannic acid (now in some disrepute), bandaging, baths, skin grafting, diet, even hypnosis. But the victim of an extensive burn (more than 10% of the skin) is in most critical danger from loss of fluid and shock. The standard treatment for this has long been to administer either whole blood or blood plasma intravenously. Since plasma is often not available and since it often contains hepatitis virus, doctors have been looking for a simpler remedy. Last week a team of U.S. Public Health Service scientists announced that they...
Last week federal and state disease detectives met in Madison, Wis. to pool their clues. But the clues did not add up to an explanation for the outbreak. Public water supplies and fluid milk had been checked and exonerated. The typhoid could not be blamed on a single cause, such as a single batch of perishable food, because such a source would produce a rash of cases in a small area at about the same time...