Word: kvittingen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history goes back to March of 1962 when five-year-old Roger Arntsen slipped into Trondheim's ice-choked Nidelven River. By the time Dr. Tone Dahl Kvittingen (pronounced Quitting-un) arrived, the boy was apparently dead. His skin was blue-white, his pupils were widely dilated, and though the policeman who had hauled him from the water had made an attempt at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Roger had not responded because his mouth and windpipe were clogged with vomit. Worst of all, the Nidelven is a fresh-water river. And fresh water, when inhaled into the lungs, does...
Roger was turned upside down to drain the dirty river water out of him, and Dr. Kvittingen began artificial respiration with a tube down his windpipe, but the boy was still in desperate plight. He had no detectable pulse, and all the way to the hospital his chest was rhythmically compressed to force blood in and out of the heart. At Central Hospital a special, electrode needle was pushed right through the chest wall into the heart, and it failed to detect any beat. External pressure was continued. A blood transfusion was started. Not until 2½ hours after...
...stormy course ahead. He began to cough up frothy blood. Dr. Kvittingen and Dr. Arne Naess concluded that his blood had been so damaged and diluted that they had to replace it all by transfusion. They cut a hole in Roger's neck to pass a tube down his windpipe, and through this they extracted more vomit. The boy's kidneys were not working. He received a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs. He had to be fed intravenously for a week...
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