Word: sethna
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...pain-treatment service came about because Berde and colleague Navil Sethna, faced with patients who had seemingly intractable problems, devised novel solutions, and because other doctors began to seek them out. One of their first cases was an 18-year-old boy with cancer. Suddenly, the boy's pain had spun out of control. "In three days he went from no morphine to 400 milligrams an hour, which is a pretty industrial dose," says Berde. "A normal amount might be 3 milligrams an hour...
Berde and Sethna told the head of pediatric anesthesiology that they wanted to work on pain management. "He wasn't opposed, but he didn't see a need for it," Berde says. But when 90 patients were treated in the first eight months, the boss changed his mind. Together with psychologist Bruce Masek, Berde and Sethna formally opened the service...