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...tend the daughter of Heart Surgeon Burakovsky. The patient, herself a doctor, had entered a general hospital in Moscow with abdominal pain, but then, as can happen in hospitals anywhere, "she got into trouble," says Zapol. She apparently had an infected fallopian tube and then a "misadventure" with anesthesia, followed by cardiac arrest and blood infection. When Zapol arrived in Moscow, she was having difficulty breathing and her chances of survival seemed slim...
...been practicing medical journalism for ten years, despite what she describes as a nagging professional handicap: her first name. "My friends and contacts at hospitals and research facilities sometimes fail to return phone calls," she laments. "They don't want to talk to the Anesthesia Department...
Many significant firsts in medicine have been revealed in the Journal's pages, including the use of ether for anesthesia during surgery (1846), and an operation to remove a ruptured disc from the spinal column (1934). So important are the literate, well-edited and often controversial articles that hardly a week goes by without some mention of the magazine in the press. Now the Journal itself has become news, a target for reporters who charge that its editorial policies delay the revelation of medical developments to the public...
...being tested is a benzodiazepine compound called Midazolam; it induces deep sleep for short periods (90 min. at most) and might be an alternative to general anesthesia in surgery. Another drug, called only No. 5057, could improve memory and other mental functions by allowing more oxygen to reach brain cells. Roche Researcher Willy Haefely says this could help retard senility "or sharpen the mind of an executive suffering from a hangover." He concedes that "unfortunately, we will never be able to produce geniuses with drugs." But if Roche can develop another winner like Valium, it might ease much...
...they can be retrieved by a wire basket threaded through the endoscope and extracted from the mouth of the sedated patient. The general anesthesia required in surgery is not necessary. Patients can eat on the same day and frequently resume their normal routine after only an overnight stay in the hospital. Dr. Jerome Siegel, a gastroenterologist at New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, has used this method on about 150 patients and is sold on it. Says he: "Within 48 hours, one of my patients, a 58-year-old woman, played 18 holes of golf-and shot...