Word: sodium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buddies killed. He collapsed. A corpsman found George shaking and crying, trying to dig a hole in the rocky Korean ground with his bare hands. At the division clearing station, when he heard friendly artillery fire, he jumped under his cot and clawed the ground. Sodium amytal and a firm but friendly psychiatrist helped George to relive his troubles, and to see them for what they were. Within a week he was back with his outfit...
Though the whole operation (under sodium pentothal and nitrous oxide anesthesia) lasted 2½ hours, most of that time was taken up in getting to the aorta. Then Dr. Hufnagel cut the aorta a few inches from the heart and fitted the loose ends of the aorta to the ends of the plastic valve sleeve. Like a plumber putting an extra valve in a water line, he left the old, defective valve in place. This part of the operation took only five minutes, and the blood flow to the brain was never interrupted...
...Romantics. In Nottingham, England, an all-male committee of the city council unanimously declared they would not use sodium lighting in the downtown area because it was unflattering to women's complexions...
...points out. But after allowance is made for individual differences, all patients follow certain general rules in their response to an operation (which is itself an injury). "After operation," says Dr. Moore, "the patient responds with hormones to heal his wound, to get new energy from fat, to conserve sodium for maintenance of blood pressure. The surgical patient is a chameleon adapting his responses to his back-ground,whether healthy or malnourished...
...flicked. The patient than gets hungry. He needs fat and carbohydrates from food to provide calories. He starts to take up nitrogen and rebuild muscle protein at the same prodigious rate as a one-year-old (suggesting that the growth hormone may have been switched on). The need for sodium goes down, while that for potassium goes up. Weeks or months later, the body replaces its store...