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PRESTONE (ethylene glycol) : wash stomach with very dilute potassium permanganate, give caffeine as stimulant, oxygen and artificial respiration if needed...
...serious problem: the surgeon wielding his needle holder has to "take aim on a moving target." Moreover, stitches inserted while the heart muscle is tense may tear out. So surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic, headed by Donald Brian Effler, adopted the technique of injecting a heart-stopping chemical, potassium citrate, to let them operate on a completely stilled, relaxed heart. When the clamps are removed at operation's end, blood coursing through the heart washes out the chemical, and the beat is usually resumed spontaneously...
...chinless exterior concealed a capable administrator, a ruthless intriguer, and the greatest mass murderer of all time. Towards the end of World War II, ambitious for absolute power, Himmler made the mistake of reaching out for just one more life. But that life was Hitler's; Himmler took potassium cyanide. Gestapo is a bold and worthwhile attempt to understand something of these monstrous men and of their strange decade, but in fact it explains very little. The mass of evidence in the Nürnbergr records may have to wait a long time for its rightful historian. In Poland...
...nothing else had been done, the heart would have continued beating during the operation. But after letting the heart beat long enough to empty itself of blood, the doctors injected potassium citrate, which arrested the beat...
...open the flaccid right ventricle, drew the remaining blood from it, and located the opening in the septum. He sutured the sides of the hole together. Then he took the clamp off the aorta and let blood from the artificial heart flow back into nature's heart. The potassium citrate soon washed out and-with no artificial prodding-the heart resumed its normal rhythm even before Effler could finish closing the ventricle wall. Last week, nine weeks after the operation, the youngster was home and hopping...