Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when an anesthetist was usually an undertrained nurse-technician, who merely slapped a mask on a patient's face or jabbed a needle into his arm, has passed. Modern anesthesiology has been developed, mainly in the past 15 years, to a complex discipline. In the best medical centers, the anesthesiologist ranks with the internist and the surgeon, has equal responsibility for the patient's care and survival. Said a noted chest surgeon recently: "The anesthesiologist is the forgotten hero. The surgeon gets the glory, but without the anesthesiologist's skill the surgeon wouldn't get very...
...mitral valve without a single death in the operating room (and few deaths afterward). Dr. Sadove reported. Then he spelled out the dozens of delicate steps which the anesthesiologist takes in each such case. The key steps give a good idea of how far anesthesiology has advanced beyond the mask-and-needle stage...
...atropine. In the operating room, needles are placed in the veins, and glucose solution is given (if the heart is especially irritable, procaine as well). Anesthesia proper begins with injections of thiopental and a muscle relaxant of the curare family;* at the same time, oxygen is given by mask. A tube is slipped down the patient's throat, into his windpipe, and he gets his oxygen that way while respiration, pulse and circulation are carefully checked...
Hammett's ideological stupidities have now made him persona non grata with State Department libraries, but the old master of the "Black Mask" magazine wrote some of the finest non political fairy tales before he vanished into obscurity: The Maltese Falcon is among his best. MICHAEL MACCOBY
Waiting for John's plane, Mamie Eisenhower was radiant. Ike made a brave but futile effort to mask his emotions. A great grin kept spreading over his face, and he was jouncing up & down on his toes as if in time to a gay tune. When John stepped down from the plane with his wife Barbara, he was greeted by a hug and kiss from Mamie, a warm handclasp from his father. Said Ike quickly: "Hello, Son." A newsreel man yelled: "Put your arm around John." Ike balked. "You just go ahead," he replied, a five-star bite...