Word: anesthesiologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operating theater there was a quartet for each twin: senior surgeon and assisting resident, anesthesiologist and scrub nurse. Standing by were a pediatrician to direct replacement of blood and other fluids, a clinical pathologist, a cardiologist with a heart-lung machine, a bone-and-joint surgeon...
...unprecedented use for hypnosis-as an essential part of anesthesia in open heart operations-was described by Beverly Hills Anesthesiologist Milton J. Marmer last week. The result, Dr. Marmer told the A.M.A. convention, was to permit the use of chemical anesthesia so light that one teen-age patient could be awakened while the lower right chamber of her heart was open. After the drastic surgery, she made a good recovery with only slight pain...
...Village was almost ready for surgery. Her left breast was bared for the surgeon's knife to remove a benign growth. But the patient had been given no anesthesia, was fully conscious. Beside the surgeon stood Chicago's Dr. William S. Kroger, taking the place of the anesthesiologist. His substitute for anesthesia: hypnosis...
...child, the hardest part of an operation usually comes before the surgeon's knife has touched him. The strange sights and smells, the anesthesiologist's impatient coaxing, the confining anesthesia mask that is pressed against his face are all things that fill the youngster with terror. To prevent psychic traumas, reports Medical News, doctors have devised a series of toys that administer anesthesia without tears...
...spectators. Dr. Swan now had a choice. He could close Mike up, as originally planned, and finish the operation after jejunum and esophagus had grown together. Or he might go right ahead and make the necessary connection with the stomach. "How's your patient?" Dr. Swan asked the anesthesiologist for the dozenth time. "Doing fine," came the answer. Dr. Swan decided that Mike was strong enough to let him go ahead at once...