Word: zukoski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the physician decides to support the patient with mechanical aids after the EEG has gone flat, says Surgeon Charles F. Zukoski III of the VA Hospital in Nashville, he runs the risk of letting the machine become his master. Slowly but inexorably, the blood pressure will fall until it can no longer support the kidneys or other viral organs. "This," says Dr. Zukoski, "is an agonal type of death. We can carry the prolongation of so-called life...