AID FOE TUBERCULAR
NEW ANAESTHETIC DEVICE
Kew i|;Kip|;?|6r^patien®! ia . advince d stagesi|b:&Sl||?MS|m^a>;held out- at a session..o£ ffi'fe'go'Sgniss^of Anaesthetists in'iSTew Yor'|. . "^.;.v" • -.•■:■--■ . For some years, an operation known as thoroeoplasty, in- which-sections j>t a number ■of .are--I tafeen. out Ito allow the ches^ ; .w3lls:Ho. fall, back against, the diseasWd/-'ahd retracted lung and-put it at rest, lhas been -used in certain cases.i; But ?the, operation held' great' dangers in; tie' administration of the anaesthesiaj .•'fldctors' at ;fche conferencerespiainedjVfilthough' when.; it was. suceess£ul^:k.^seKibilitated-:-tha patient, in , 65.'; :%ei~ eg&&; !of ' th^e. cases, enabling him;s.f,o3gp;|l3^p- to- sonic "siirt of work, says,.:tfiBi' c4]S!^ i -Tork Times''^ At Sea View jHospitalpStaten. Island, Dr.. Pol N; 'Coryilos toil "that hospital .demonstrated^ "aY-jCTfec^y-' methQd anaesthesia,' whiclt", it: is. "said, virtually eliminates' the ; danger, of ■•fa'ilnre";of respiration, under the'anaesthetic,- ; The method is known as endotracheal anaesthesia, pecaus&-th"e' anaesthetic'-13 given through a 'tube in the windpipe. In the past it r hkd.-been thought-that this, tube-: could only: be' introduced when the"-patiedt- was\al.ready- profoundly --. . .asieew i :r E6 '• ■• bbviate " tKis necessity^ ; pr^^orylios". demonstrated, he .deadens ;tEe^.reflexes'of:the throat and lungs; with cocaing- and1' introduces the"-, tube? while fthre "patient'- is - wide awake. Then ttte tube is;, attached1 to a gas., oxyge^ anaesthetising;: apparatus andi. ; the. : jiitieiiCis-, put;to sleep-in a minute^^-sjb^^s^pxygen.'is available at.-ailJ^iMl-ilipf^iairJailure 'of '[-tes-piratip"af^nS.]|;ef-^oiEaedVby^ "using- it ■if ■■■ requtie^i^-plglpji^j;■",;;,- ■ ■-.'.;•".;■ ■-/. .--., WhafeianaesjfietistKf described- as; tha final perfietifigj<ietaifto£il)r; Coryilos's metho;d f isv the |'use-"of "a£'inner tiiba to suc'k'/outHhe' fluid that may.accfimulate'. duringii.the .dperation.. and endanger "the life.-;.. ' •;:';■' ' .The method was-described as a.bdon to .tubercular rpa'tient's,';and. also adaptable! to all: ;ehest operations" and :to other surgery.1. ' , ' ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1932, Page 13
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258AID FOE TUBERCULAR Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1932, Page 13
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