Word: wangensteen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patients whose lives are threatened by bleeding ulcers and who may need massive blood transfusions can be saved by a chilling technique worked out by the University of Minnesota's Department of Surgery, reported its chief, Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen. The patient swallows a balloon through which a frigid (23° F.) solution of alcohol and water is circulated. The chilling cuts down blood flow, and also the secretion of gastric juices to a negligible level so that they can no longer digest the stomach wall at the ulcer site. In ten patients it has taken an average...
Only four days later Floyd John Lewis, one of the leaders in a team of brilliant young heart specialists assembled by Surgery Professor Owen H. Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota, did a virtually identical operation on a five-year-old girl, and she survived. Within ten days Bailey repeated the operation with complete success...