Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lines of approach to the problem: 1) the U.S. will not pay "blackmail" to get the Americans out, and although 2) the U.S. does not intend to use force to get them out, 3) the U.S. hopes to convince the kidnapers through patient diplomatic negotiation that kidnaping is "counterproductive," i.e., hardly puts Americans in the mood for any kind of concession...
...unprecedented use for hypnosis-as an essential part of anesthesia in open heart operations-was described by Beverly Hills Anesthesiologist Milton J. Marmer last week. The result, Dr. Marmer told the A.M.A. convention, was to permit the use of chemical anesthesia so light that one teen-age patient could be awakened while the lower right chamber of her heart was open. After the drastic surgery, she made a good recovery with only slight pain...
...heartbeat will stop. The deeper the anesthesia, the greater the danger. So surgeons and anesthesiologists have tried to develop "light anesthesia" methods, which should be safer. One way of checking whether the anesthesia is light enough, Marmer reasoned, was to make hypnosis a part of it so that the patient could be awakened during the operation...
...general practitioners how easily they can now do just this in their own offices-with gadgets that look like babies' croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs. The wetting agent helps bring out more fluid that contains cells. The patient coughs this up. When the substance...
...future, a great growth will come in aerosol drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have begun to market heart medicine in aerosol cans. In case of an angina attack, the patient puts the aerosol tube in his mouth, gets the proper dosage with a single press of a button. Also starting to come out: cortisone skin medicines, burn ointments and antiseptics in aerosol cans...