Re: [Phys-l] operating room physics

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

My tonsillectomy was about then and all I remember is I lived on ice cream for a few days.  Perhaps the Stanford U. hospital was a bit more advanced then.

bc thought one wasn't to eat for some time before general anesthesia.

p.s. tonsillectomies are no longer a fad either.

OTOH?

http://adc.bmj.com/content/88/2/95.1.extract


On 2010, Mar 03, , at 19:21, Hugh Haskell wrote:

> probably 10 years less than that at least. I was in the Children's 
> ward of St. Francis hosp. in SF in '45, and was surrounded by kids 
> who were retching up their guts after getting tonsillectomies using 
> ether (it was clearly ether--we could smell it). I was 10 at the 
> time, and even then I thought it was terminal stupid to use a drug 
> that induced vomiting on people whose throats were being operated on. 
> Several of the kids hemorrhaged--big surprise. I'm sure that it 
> wasn't much after that that ether went sompletely out of style.
>
> Hugh