Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relief all day. An orange-sized lump soon began to bloat her abdomen. When her doctor ordered emergency surgery. Dr. Walter A. Reese at Ohio's Middletown Hospital operated at once. He found a hemorrhage in a kidney that had apparently been displaced from birth. Swiftly, because the patient otherwise would have bled to death, Surgeon Reese removed the kidney. Despite massive transfusions, Mrs. Lowman lost so much blood during the operation that she "died" on the table. After her heart had stopped for four minutes, artificial respiration and more transfusions were needed to bring it back to life...
...were still faced with the task of offsetting the radiation destruction of both white and red corpuscles, still listed Mrs. Lowman's condition as ''critical." They were unwilling to comment in any way on their achievement. But it was a fortnight after the operation, and the patient was still alive. Moreover, use of the artificial kidney was gradually being eased, and there were hopeful signs that the transplanted kidney was beginning to function...
...This pregnancy is no different from my others," said the Oklahoma housewife mildly. Physicians had indeed found that their 27-year-old patient had just about all the obvious signs of a four-month pregnancy. What flabbergasted them was the knowledge that two years before, she had undergone a hysterectomy, and thus could not possibly have conceived...
...from seven to 79. Modern medicine knows it as a mental condition, arising from emotional needs so intense that they lead to suppression of menstruation, distention of the abdomen, enlargement of the breasts, and morning nausea. Most cases involve psychotic women with a feeble grasp of reality. But this patient was not psychotic. Her perceptions were normal; she knew all along that the operation had barred her from reproduction...
Completely successful by contrast was the mouth-to-mouth method, in which the victim is placed on his back, mouth cleared of all foreign matter, while the rescuer leans down from the side. The rescuer raises the chin of the patient with one hand, forcing open the jaw with his thumb, holds the nose with his other hand. He then blows hard and fast, inflating the victim's lungs, stops when the chest rises so that the lungs can automatically deflate. The cycle is repeated at a rate of 20 inflations per minute until revival. For even more efficient...