Word: anesthetist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unlike many hospitals, which make up a fresh batch of anesthetic for each patient, Pontiac Osteopathic practice was to mix Surital* in half-pint quantities, enough for at least ten patients. When Kimberly Ann Bruneel, 8, was wheeled into Operating Room No. 1 to have her appendix removed, Nurse-Anesthetist Joan Booth simply jabbed the needle of a syringe through the rubber seal on the "Surital" bottle, drew off some of the fluid, and put a, little into the patient's arm through an intravenous drip tube. The child immediately went into bronchial spasms. Nurse Booth says she "never...
...Nurse Anesthetist...
...Role. "People used to think of the anesthetist as a faceless person who suddenly appears in the surgery, does his little assignment, and then disappears," said Dr. Volpitto. "It's different today. Anesthesiologists see the patients in advance, and we play a role with the surgeon in preparing them for what is to come." The A.S.A.'s incoming president, Dr. John J. Bonica, drew attention to another vital role of the anesthesiologist-where surgery is not involved or at least not scheduled. "Suppose," he said, "a patient comes in with barbiturate poisoning. All his automatic nervous system reactions...
...Murray explained it all in her own profane way: "We fled persecution. We fled for our god-damned lives." The persecution, as she put it, began a month ago when a Baltimore anesthetist named Leonard Abramovitz and his wife accused Madalyn of inducing their 17-year-old daughter Susan to give up her Jewish faith and move into the Murray household. A Baltimore court placed the girl in the custody of her aunt and uncle, and forbade the Murrays to have any contact with her. Instead of staying with her relatives, a fortnight ago, Susan upped and married Madalyn...