Word: lumbar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successfully performing a delicate operation called lumbar sympathectomy, Edinburgh's Professor James Learmonth was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by the only man who can bestow the honor: his grateful patient, George...
...marine had a wound of the lower chest in which a bullet was deflected through the liver, shattered the right kidney, went through the fourth lumbar vertebra (lower back) and left a large wound in the right flank. He was given plasma at the front line and on the way to the field hospital. But when he arrived at the hospital he was almost dead. A four-way infusion was begun. In two and a half hours, the marine got twelve units of plasma, eleven pints of blood, 1,000 cc of saline and glucose. That stabilized his blood pressure...
...result in another way. They give hypertonic (heavy) glucose injections to patients in coma or shock. The glucose, thicker than body fluids, sucks out fluid from the tissues through osmotic pressure. thus reduces tension in the brain. ¶ Also harmful, say Drs. Gross & Ehrlich. is the common practice of lumbar puncture (spine-tapping) to examine the spinal fluid soon after a head injury. During the first few hours after the accident, the body tries to restore the balance between blood and cerebro-spinal fluid. Withdrawal of fluid "might possibly interfere with this...