Word: incisional
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Doctors begin the new procedure by administering a local anesthetic and making an incision no larger than ¼in. Conventional surgery would have required an 8-in. to 10-in. cut. A catheter is inserted near the stone, and, depending on the circumstances, the patient will either be sent home...
As a gentle snow began to fall outside, Clark was wheeled into a specially equipped surgical suite. Already assembled was a 17-member team with Jarvik as an observer. Working quietly and steadily to the hushed strains of Ravel's Bolero, DeVries made a 9½-in. incision from...
It is the patient, of course, who suffers when the doctor is exhausted. "When you work 36 hours at a stretch, all you can do is work by protocol," Harrison explains. As a result, she says, doctors railroad patients into procedures and operations without pausing to consider their wishes. She...
After opening the abdominal cavity with an incision of about six to eight inches, the doctors made a careful inspection to see if the twisting bullet had damaged any major blood vessels or organs. There was special concern that it might have hit the pancreas, which produces digestive enzymes that...
They then decided to carefully remove it through an incision in his back. After receiving praise from official visitors, including Vice President George Bush and Mayor Marion Barry, Delahanty was due to leave the hospital within days.