Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roadless miles from the doctor's office in Lone Pine (elev. 3,728 ft.). No plane could land near the camp. Nothing to do but pack in. At 3 :30, Dr. Shultz set out on horseback, with a mule carrying a stretcher, an instrument bag and plasma...
...said: 'I wouldn't cry so, if you didn't hurt me.'" Even so, one man had to hold her legs and another her head. Dr. Shultz cleaned the bone fragments and put them back, sewed up the wound and gave Sara 250 cc of plasma. A mattress was slipped between Sara and the table, and she slept soundly...
Then, in true thriller fashion, U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady rode to the rescue-or temporary rescue. He sent a go-between to the bedside of frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who was so weak that the doctors gave him a transfusion (seeing that it was American plasma, Mossadeq cracked:"Do you think it will make me more reasonable?"). On Grady's plea, Mossadeq gave London two more days to answer the Iranian ultimatum. For the time being, at least, the British were still hanging...
...method, the blood collecting bottle is eliminated. The blood flows directly over an exchange resin which removes calcium from the blood and thus prevents clotting. Then it passes through a heat exchange until (to reduce temperature) and into a small continuous centrifuge in which the plasma is separated from the red cells. After further separation, the solutions are frozen and sterilized by cathode rays...
...doctors set the room temperature at 68° to thaw her out. They injected plasma for shock. Dr. Laufman gave her 200 milligrams of cortisone. "I still don't know if it did any good," he says, "but her temperature started to rise at a sharp rate." At 3 :30 p.m. it was 77°, at 8 p.m. 86°, and her pulse and respiration were almost normal. Johnny woke up, opened her eyes and said: "I'm cold...