Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gang's woes, the criminal underworld was less than patient with such a crime-especially when Scotland Yard began systematically raiding their haunts in a search for the paintings. Two days after the theft, a tip from the underworld brought police to an apartment where two Rembrandts and a Rubens were found under a bed. Another phone call-police theorize that this one was from the distressed gang itself-led them to a park, where they found the other paintings wrapped in newspaper under a holly bush...
Bits of the catheter, having been cut by the edge of the needle, can break off and get lost in the vein. Writing in the December issue of GP, Dr. Carl Northcutt of Stuttgart, Ark., relates the case of a 61-year-old male patient who was having a catheter inserted. It was noted that a Hinch piece of it had broken off. A tourniquet was quickly applied to head off the lost piece, but it could not be found. Four weeks later the patient went into shock and died, apparently of other causes. But the missing bit of catheter...
...commonly introduced into the body's various systems to allow doctors to trace functions and spot malfunctions with sensitive scanners. But radioactivity is the peril as well as the point of using the particles, reported Quinn, since too much of it during the testing can harm the patient. The ideal, therefore, is to find a radioactive substance with a short half-life that will decay quickly after passing on the information doctors need. The problem is that the unstable substances live so briefly they must be manufactured as short a time as possible before their...
...case of a parent such as molybdenum-99 (half-life: 2.8 days), technetium-99m (half-life: 6 hours) is produced, and it accumulates at the bottom of the tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created only moments before it is put into a patient, and the doctor can scan its internal path while it is most active; yet within 24 hours, it will have decayed to an undangerous one-sixteenth of its former self. Since patients are far safer, they can take many more such tests, thus vastly multiplying the data with which doctors...
...Patient Computer. The relative locations of the two sparks, which determine the direction from which the particle came, will be noted electronically and stored on magnetic tapes. Every evening, the tapes will be sent to Cairo's Ein Shams University. There they will be fed into a computer that will calculate and memorize the point at which each recorded muon penetrated the surface of the pyramid. Because cavities within the pyramid offer less resistance to speeding muons than does solid stone, a greater number of muons will penetrate to the spark chamber along paths that take them through corridors...