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(HealthDay)—It's your worst nightmare: As doctors race to save your life while performing CPR, you're actually awake and conscious of what they are doing. Ad A new report shows it happened for one man for up to 90 minutes, and the finding suggests that sedation during CPR should be ...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- For the first time, surgeons at Northwestern Medicine have completed a kidney transplant during which the patient was awake the whole time. The surgery took place back on May 24. The patient—John Nicholas, 28, of Chicago—was discharged to go home the day after the surge...
It was also very useful to the surgeon, because his patient playing the sax during surgery allowed Brogna to map different functions of the brain as he operated. Neurosurgeon Dr. Christian Brogna operates on a male patient, who is fully awake, to remove a brain tumor at the Paideia ...
"I was awake through every moment," he told Sawyer. The ABC News anchor also interviewed Renner's nephew, Alexander Fries, whom the actor was trying to rescue after Fries' car got stuck in the snow. Fries told Sawyer he ran up to Renner after the accident unfolded and th...
The most common cause of windpipe damage is a traumatic injury or complication from a surgery, such as the removal of the thyroid gland, or procedures where there is an opening near the front of the windpipe wall. The man suffered severe neck pain after holding in his sneeze and visited an...
Before his surgery, hospital staff gave Scott more blood and placed an inflatable tourniquet on his arm. Scott thought the other tourniquets had hurt. This was worse. It was the most pain he had ever felt, like his arm was being squeezed from his body. Time blurred. ...
At nine, those who had not been long awake were roused by the sound of an explosion. The MRTA had tossed a stick of dynamite into the street. It was a warning to the police and soldiers, too keep their distance. Shortly thereafter, Cerpa gave another phone interview. Were the remaining...
Armed with that information, surgeons performed a 15-hour surgery at NSUH, during parts of which the study participant was awake and giving surgeons real-time feedback. As they probed portions of the surface of his brain, Mr. Thomas would tell them what sensations he was feeling in his ...
Zach Long:That surgery is kind of probably like Temple of what it was 15 years ago. Wow. Comment on other areas. Dean Pohlman:So that that actually leads me to a big question of mind, which is what are some of the really common what are some of the most common preventable injuries ...