Word: lungfuls
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...draw birdshot compared with the artillery reserved for the health nuts who have suggested that smoking might somehow be tied to cancer. As a pamphlet available to plant visitors insists, no one has ever been able to do more than show that smokers are more likely to die from lung cancer, a mere "statistical association." They have failed utterly "to establish a cause-and-effect relationship." The pamphlet features a series of questions. For example, "Are cigarettes with low 'tar' and nicotine 'safer' for smokers?" The answer begins, "Cigarettes have never been proven to be unsafe," and "What about...
...from the Hilton when Reagan said again that his ribs hurt. "He complained of having some problems with his breathing," said Parr. "He was getting an ashen color. Then he started to cough up some blood. My first impression was that somehow a rib had broken and punctured a lung." Reagan had the same mistaken idea. He later said: "It hurt, but I thought it was a broken...
Because Reagan was coughing up bright red blood and complaining of chest pain on his left side and difficulty in breathing, doctors immediately suspected that his lung had been injured and probably collapsed, a common result of gunshot wounds to the chest. Normally, the pressure in the space between the lung and the chest wall is less than atmospheric pressure, and this keeps the lung expanded; when the chest wall is pierced, air enters and forces the lung to collapse. To reinflate it, doctors made two small incisions, one just below the collarbone and the other between the seventh...
...bullet passed through the chest muscles, lung, diaphragm and part of the liver before lodging against a rib. An hour-long operation was successful in removing the bullet and draining the blood that had collected in his abdominal cavity...
...several problems with the proposal. First was concern over when and how doctors would decide to implant the plastic and aluminum device. The Utah team said it would try the procedure only as a last resort, when a patient's heart could not take over for the heart-lung pump used during surgery. But the FDA suggested that the doctors first consider using a less drastic mechanical aid, the so-called assist device. This piece of equipment leaves the natural heart intact but takes over the operation of one of the pumping chambers, usually the left ventricle, giving...