Word: incisional
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Beveridge made another incision in the baby's chest so that he could join the two separated sections of her esophagus-but the sections were too far apart to be sewn together. All the surgeon could do was close the opening between esophagus and windpipe, and bring the end...
Complete breakdown calls for the familiar artificial kidney.* Partial failure calls for repeated "peritoneal irrigations" to wash out the body's natural metabolic poisons-and the process requires an abdominal incision for each irrigation.
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...