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Dentists, as well as surgeons, have good cause to be wary of the use of anesthesia. Eighteen to 20 patients die in the U.S. each year from anesthesia in dentists' offices. Most common cause of death is brain damage from hypoxia (shortage of oxygen) caused by improper mixture of anesthetic gas, which should never contain less than 20% oxygen. The patient may survive a dose of gas that contains less than this minimum, but if it is prolonged or repeated, he may undergo personality changes or survive only as a moronic "vegetable." One dentist's proposed antidote...
...Operations & Mental Cases. With physical chilling after a lytic cocktail, a patient's temperature can be dropped to 80° F. or even lower. His metabolism is slowed so sharply that even his brain needs little oxygen. French surgeons using the Laborit technique have performed hundreds of operations (for everything from heart disease and advanced cancer to a ruptured appendix) on patients rated as poor risks for ordinary anesthesia. Laborit reports no cases of surgical shock, and a good cure rate...
...smoke through the ship. As far down as the sixth deck, the blast jammed the airtight doors. The eight men on duty in damage control put wet rags over their faces and went about their critical work of relaying messages from the bridge to the fire fighters, as their oxygen supply dwindled. "This is my last breath," one of them gasped over his headset-and it was. With agonizing slowness, rescue parties cut through the wreckage...
...year ago reached the top of Mount Everest with Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norkey, was bat tling an unexpected threat to his life on another peak. After breaking a rib while rescuing a climbing companion on lofty (23,800 ft.) Mount Baruntse, Hillary fell ill with pneumonia. Aided by oxygen and penicillin sent from a nearby U.S. expedition, he was presumably being carried down from the 22,500-ft. heights of a glacier by fellow mountaineers...
...their best to graft new skin on her severely burned arms and face, and baskets of flowers from grateful parents were carried in. That night, in the same hospital, two of the rescued babies died from smoke poisoning. Two others died in Dellwood. Next day, despite desperate treatment with oxygen and penicillin, four more of the babies died. One by one, as the hours wore by and mothers prayed and doctors worked, the other victims of the smoke-filled night succumbed until only two were left...