Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operating room, needles are placed in the veins, and glucose solution is given (if the heart is especially irritable, procaine as well). Anesthesia proper begins with injections of thiopental and a muscle relaxant of the curare family;* at the same time, oxygen is given by mask. A tube is slipped down the patient's throat, into his windpipe, and he gets his oxygen that way while respiration, pulse and circulation are carefully checked...
Ether is put through the tube to produce deep anesthesia. (Oxygen is still being given.) If the pulse rate drops below 60, the anesthesiologist injects atropine. Procaine is injected into the rib cage and around the heart, and, finally, as the surgeon lays the heart bare, into the heart itself. Only then is the actual operation of widening the valve performed. The anesthesiologist injects lidocaine to block the nerves of the rib cage. As the wound is being closed, he twirls the knobs on the anesthesia machine to give a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen. The patient...
...towed to a point 18 miles south of the island of Ponza where the Tyrrhenian Trench is 10,000 ft. deep. Just after the cheerless dawn, old Professor Piccard, a black Basque beret over his white hair, boarded the Trieste from an Italian navy corvette and climbed down a tube leading to the pressure sphere. His son, Jacques, 30, was already on board, crammed among oxygen bottles, apparatus and 102 instruments, including a movie camera. When the professor closed a massive door, the Trieste was ready to dive. Men from the corvette opened valves, letting sea water into parts...
...hours and 18 minutes later she popped to the surface, cheerful as a bubble. After the water had been forced from the access tube, Professor Piccard and Jacques came to the deck of the floater and were rowed to the corvette. Leaning on his son, the professor whispered in French: "You speak, Jacques. The credit is all yours...
COLUMBIA Broadcasting System is showing off a new compatible electronic color picture tube that can be mass-produced, in sizes up to 21 inches, and will be sold for only 30% more than comparable black & white tubes. Tbs new tube will mean a drastic cut in the $750-to-$1000 price estimated for the first color sets, and possibly a big royalty jackpot...