Word: chesting
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...spreaders." A bridgelike gadget was clamped in place; with a few turns of the screw it spread the ribs six inches apart. The assistants cut deeper through the chest. "Lung retractors." The heaving lungs were pushed aside. Many more blood vessels were tied off. Bailey slit the heart sac almost from top to bottom, took quick stitches in it, left long threads which were clamped to the rib spreaders to hold the sac open...
...entire operation from opening the chest to putting the last stitches in it-"skin to skin," as surgeons call it-had taken 3½ hours. After five weeks the patient went back to work. His heart no longer pounds unbearably; he can be as active as most...
...After what Bailey considers less than average preparation for such a post (New Jersey's Rutgers University, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, a year's internship, four years of general practice in Lakewood, N.J., two years of intensive lung surgery), he was placed in charge of chest surgery at Hahnemann in 1940. He is now professor and head of the department of thoracic surgery in Hahnemann Medical College and its attached hospital...
...five years, had been told she had six months to live. Bailey slipped his finger through the "tail" of the auricle (the "appendage"), slid a knife along it and slit the joined valve leaves apart. Eight days later Claire Ward went to Chicago to appear before a meeting of chest physicians. Last October, almost nine years after her operation, she had a second child. She takes full care of her children and her second-floor walk-up apartment...
...longer; 2) deliberately irritating the surface of the heart muscle itself and the lining of the heart sac by scraping them with an abrader like a spiked golf shoe; 3) dusting irritant asbestos powder inside the sac; and 4) stitching a piece of fat (from the lining of the chest wall) to the sac when he closes...