Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modified globin, one of the newest substances used in transfusions, was described by Dr. Max Maurice Strumia of Bryn Mawr, Pa. It is made from red blood cells, keeps well in salt solution, is so successful in preventing blood fluid from leaking into the tissues (as in wound shock) that, if globin were made along with plasma, each blood donation would go four times as far as at present...
...Messerschmitts jumped the B-24 Liberator bomber on its way to raid the Piacenza airport in northern Italy. The Lib got away and started its target run, but the hydraulic system had been shot to bits, the fluid had frozen over the bomb-bay mechanism. The doors wouldn't open...
...stable preparation of serum albumin (TIME, Jan. 31), which is especially useful in shock. It is five times as powerful as plasma in drawing blood fluid back from the tissues into the blood stream. (Leakage of blood fluid into the tissues, with consequent reduction of blood volume and lowered blood pressure, are characteristics of shock...
...landing crack-up almost certain, Bombardier Lieut. Edward M. Gibbens, of Mountain Home, Idaho, took a crash ax, doffed his parachute, perched on the narrow catwalk of the bomb bay and started knocking the bombs loose. As the last one dropped away, Gibbens skidded on the leaking hydraulic fluid and fell. With a frantic, one-handed clutch he caught hold of a bomb rack, slowly and painfully pulled himself back to safety as other crewmen came up to help...
...stay in bed for six weeks. Very often a doctor finds a patient with failure of the left side of the heart sitting up in a chair and orders him to bed, "whereupon the patient proceeds to suffocate." Another lethal effect of bed rest : pneumonia caused by collection of fluid in the lungs. This is why sick oldsters should not stay in bed "one hour longer than necessary." They should sit up part of the time and let such fluid run down toward their feet and ankles...