Word: incisional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The implantation is done in one operation. Surgeon Chardack opens the chest to get the electrode into the heart wall and leads the connecting wire through a tunnel under the skin to another incision in the abdomen, just to the left of the navel. He sets the pacemaker on a...
In the first human trials of the new technique, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, five patients in severe shock, with catastrophically low blood pressure and with little chance of survival, have been hooked up to the pump. The operation is relatively simple, requiring only an incision in an arm...
The surgical team headed by Dr. John E. Connolly made an incision in the anesthetized patient's neck, to get at one of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain. First they drew out some blood, and added donor blood, to fill the pump-oxygenator ("heart-lung...
The isolator is a sausage-shaped, flexible, transparent plastic bubble, slightly inflated to about five feet in diameter with germ-free air and glued to the skin around the place where the surgeon will make his incision. Inside the bubble are surgical instruments, lying on a part of the plastic...
*The four basic techniques for clearing local arterial roadblocks: 1) cut out the diseased section, pull the severed ends of the artery together and stitch them: 2) make a slit in the side of the artery, insert a special instrument, ream out the fatty debris and close the incision with...