Word: suctioning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...believes that the commonly used standard equipment is wrong, since it requires a general anaesthetic for dilatation of the cervix and insertion of relatively large metal tools. Instead, Bergman uses only a local anaesthetic, and none at all in most cases, to permit insertion of a specially designed vacuum-suction tube only one-quarter inch in diameter. The instrument, smaller than those in general use, was developed at a Los Angeles abortion clinic and has been used there for a year. Bergman has performed more than 300 abortions in his office since July 1 by this method with, he says...
Need to Shout. There remained the danger of infection, especially severe in hip surgery because so much tissue must be exposed. With Charnley's new plastic techniques, the infection rate was 4%. That was too high by his standards. Then he devised an elaborate suction system for his operating room. Each member of the surgical team was fitted with a flexible tube, long enough to permit free movement, that ran up his back and was connected to a narrow steel tube that encircled the face and had holes through which his exhaled breath was drawn away. "It makes communication...