Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving his right arm or leg, and readily found the reason: a large, soft swelling on the left side of his neck. Beshoar knew it was a massive aneurysm of the carotid artery, and that he could do nothing about it. He did all he could to make the patient more comfortable, then referred him to the nearest Army hospital at Fort Lyon 90 miles away. There, two weeks later, Kit Carson died. The striking thing, said DeBakey, is that not until almost 90 years after this could any surgeon have done anything more than did Beshoar...
...iliac arteries. A familiar feature of insufficient blood supply to the legs, which causes pain in the calf muscles so acute that the victim can hardly walk, is its on-again, off-again nature. Ten days after DeBakey has bypassed the blocked artery with a length of tubing, the patient who previously could walk no farther than a city block without disabling pain can usually go a leisurely mile...
...most daring, and still somewhat controversial, of Dr. DeBakey's innovations is an operation on arteries leading to the brain; it is done to ease the effects of a stroke and to reduce the likelihood that the patient will have more strokes. Though some strokes are the result of hemorrhaging from burst arteries, the great majority are caused by clot shutdowns where the arteries are inside the skull and inaccessible. But Dr. DeBakey thinks that as many as 20% of the clots occur in the carotid and vertebral arteries, below the floor of the skull, where the surgeon...
...department of surgery under Dr. Alton Ochsner.* During the '30s, young Dr. DeBakey became an expert in blood transfusions and invented a roller pump to assist them. That pump, he thought wistfully, might some day be useful in some sort of heart-lung machine to sustain a patient during surgery. Twenty years later...
...banana. By 5, DeBakey is at work in his den, the one room in his comfortable Regency house to which not even his wife or the maid has a key. The huge horseshoe-shaped desk (like almost everything else that DeBakey owns, it is the gift of a grateful patient) is crammed with stacked lantern slides of diseased arteries, patients' histories, statistical analyses of the results of thousands of operations, reprints of reports by other surgeons, masses of correspondence, and a tiny portable TV. If DeBakey switches it on, it is only to have it remind him when...