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...behaviorally preventable. In that sense it is in the same moral class as lung cancer, the majority of whose victims get it through voluntary behavior well known to be highly dangerous. For lung cancer the behavior is smoking; for AIDS, unsafe sex (not, it might be noted, homosexuality) and IV drug...
...unnamed baby boy, born three months prematurely at Children's Hospital in Washington, is one of thousands of 2-lb. problems facing medicine. For more than a month he has been kept alive inside a plastic incubator. Miniature sunglasses are taped over his eyes, IV lines are cut into his neck, and tubes have been jammed up his nose and down his throat. Although $2,000 a day is being spent to keep this child alive, he will be permanently handicapped if he ever leaves the hospital. But it is unlikely that this infant will go home. "This baby...
...left the scene at 7:05 p.m., just 13 minutes after St. Andrew and Tayenaka got the call. St. Andrew monitored Tony's blood pressure while he cradled a portable phone and asked a county trauma center for permission to bring in the case. He tried to insert an IV needle, but the boy, who spoke no English, cried and resisted. "No moveas," St. Andrew cajoled in semi-Spanish. An impatient nurse on the phone demanded a blood- pressure reading. Suddenly Tony stopped crying. St. Andrew shook him gently: "Antonio, Antonio!" The boy began to wail again. Everything was chaotically...
...ambulance St. Andrew turned on oxygen, spritzed nitroglycerin under McKinney's tongue to relieve the hypertension and potential heart problems, and briefed a hospital over the phone. He warned McKinney to be ready for "a stick," then put in the IV needle to administer the diuretic drug Lasix, which dilates blood vessels. McKinney rallied as his pressure slipped down to 164 over 120. "I was scared," he admitted hoarsely. "I didn't think I'd make...
...explains Peter Moyer, chief of emergency medicine at Boston City Hospital. "I think of us as the urban GP." Tonight Moyer's trauma team is summoned to save a man who has overdosed on heroin. They cut his clothes away, thump on his chest and connect an IV tube, all the while talking to him, trying to keep him awake. "Do you want to die?" resident Stuart Kessler yells at the man, who is feebly pushing the doctors away. The man shakes his head. "Good," says Kessler. "I don't want you to die either." He administers Narcan, a heroin...