Word: northwestern
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...overcome such drawbacks, doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago have developed a technique that promises to get safe blood quickly to a patient. It is a form of autologous transfusion but with an important difference. Most hospitals try to reclaim part of the blood lost by a patient during surgery. When faced with gaping wounds that ooze large quantities of blood into body cavities -- as in open-heart or orthopedic surgery -- surgeons can reclaim half of it with suction devices, cleanse it in purifying machines and send it back into the patient. The rest is lost because it either...
What makes the Northwestern technique special is that virtually all the blood lost in an operation is salvaged. It is wrung out by hand from the saturated sponges directly into a bowl of saline solution. The solution is filtered and then passed into a centrifuge, where the red blood cells are separated. Within 15 minutes the reclaimed blood is back in circulation. Says Northwestern anesthesiologist Ann Ronai: "We're trying to salvage as much blood as possible during the operation, because it's better than somebody else's." The savings can be enormous: when the sponge method is combined with...
...survey, which was released in the November 28 issue of Business Week, put Harvard behind Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and ahead of, in order, the business schools of Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell...
While students generally said they consider Northwestern's business school top notch, they said that it was difficult to make distinctions among the nation's best schools...
...Someone asked me the other day what I thought about Michigan coming to town. I said, `it's good news and bad news. The bad news is it's a typical Michigan football team. The good news is that they'll only be here for 60 minutes."--Northwestern football Coach Francis Peay discussing the Northwestern-Michigan football game. Northwestern lost...