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These high levels of incidence are troubling, says Ralph Hingson, director of the social and behavioral sciences department at the Boston University School of Public Health...
...deal that 11 percent of people had their property damaged?" Hingson asks. "There's a degree of people being pushed around that's remarkable...
...pocket-sized, 2-lb. gadget that can serve as a resuscitator, inhalator or anesthesia machine was described by Western Reserve University's Dr. Robert A. Hingson. Already used in more than 7,000 cases for short-term (five to 15 min.) anesthesia, it delivers a nonexplosive mixture of cyclopropane, oxygen and helium. Patients thus anesthetized have had fractures set, babies delivered by high forceps, and kidneys removed. Dr. Hingson has made it work at 12,000 ft. in the Andes, and medical student volunteers have used it as an inhalator to escape noxious gases...
...caudal technique may be dangerous in inexperienced hands. But Dr. Hingson, who is teaching 20 doctors at a time in two-week courses, says any trained general practitioner can use it in a properly equipped hospital...
Last week at the International Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan, Dr. Hingson was ready to talk statistics. In more than 2,000 childbirths under caudal analgesia, said he, more than 90% of the mothers had complete relief from pain; the death rate was less than half that of a group of mothers who did not get the treatment. Furthermore, the death rate of babies in the first week of life was 11.5 per 1,000 as opposed to 20.8 in the other group. Reason: continuous caudal analgesia relaxes the mother's muscles so that the baby does not take...