Word: treatment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Standard treatment for air embolism is to put the victim into a recompression chamber, but Dr. Kruse did not know where the nearest chamber was. Fortunately, the twitch in the head-dropped position gave him an idea. By chance, the examining table had a tilting mechanism. The doctor propped up the diver's head until his chin rested on his chest-the same position that had produced the hopeful twitch. Then he spun the control wheel until the head end of the table had dropped about 15 degrees. As fast as he could, he spun the wheel again until...
Smaller Bubbles. Dr. Kruse discussed the happenstance treatment with another skindiving friend, Dr. James R. Atkinson, then at the University of Washington. Working with cats, Neurosurgeon Atkinson found that tilting succeeded repeatedly in clearing up air embolism. He now thinks that in the head-down position, the brain receives more blood, so that its small vessels dilate and are better able to push the air bubbles along. The bubbles then split up until they become so small that they can be dissolved in the blood...
...emergency room is like the first visit to a private clinic; the doctors might well be the family physicians of a group practice unit. The difference is that in the Alexandria emergency room, each patient is seen and treated only once for each "emergency." If he needs further treatment, he is referred back to his own doctor if he has one, helped to find one if he hasn't. For any treatment, the hospital charges $5 for use of the room, plus a minimum of $5 for the treatment...
Chicago editors are understandably gun-shy when they have to handle a story of local racial violence. In 1919 a race riot lasting seven days resulted in 38 dead and 537 injured. At least 1,000 Chicagoans were left homeless. And for their sensational treatment of the affair, Chicago's editors earned a large share of the blame for unduly inflaming their town. In 1951, another brace of riots in bordering Cicero again raised head lines to fever pitch, and with the same result: public censure for the papers...
After that, Chicago newspapers be gan to tone down their stories of local racial incidents. In 1955 the City News Bureau spelled out its own policy, which has been taken over as an informal code by the mass media in the city. The code calls for responsible treatment of stories, brevity, the absence of superlatives or inflammatory adjectives, and warns reporters to avoid use of the word riot. "If riots actually occur," says the code, "we should be in a position that no charge of riot incitement can be placed against us." Radio and TV stations, which tend to make...