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Cell death
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death
death cessation of all life (metabolic) processes. Death may involve the organism as a whole (somatic death) or may be confined to cells and tissues within the organism. Causes of death in human beings include injury, acute or chronic disease, and neoplasia (cancer). The physiological death of... Read more |
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Micaiah
Micaiah , in the Bible, Samaritan prophet who foretold the death of Ahab.... Read more |
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Local anesthesia
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Onan
Onan , in the Bible, Judah's son, whose evasion of his obligation to his brother's widow caused his death.... Read more |
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Black Death
Black Death An epidemic of catastrophic proportions, the Black Death first struck England in the summer of 1348. This first outbreak probably killed between a third and a half of the population, as is shown by figures showing death rates for the clergy, and for peasant landholders. It is usually... Read more |
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Dance of Death
Dance of Death or danse macabre , originally a 14th-century morality poem. The poem was a dialogue between Death and representatives of all classes from the Pope down. By the 15th cent., pictorial representation with verses illustrating the pictures became common. The dance, in which Death as a... Read more |
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Jehoiachin
Jehoiachin , in the Bible, king of Judah. He was king for a few months (c.598 BC) after the death of his father, Jehoiakim . He and his court were carried away into exile by Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon and imprisoned. On the death of Nebuchadnezzar he was freed and given honorable treatment.... Read more |
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Thanatology
Thanatology Thanatology is the study of dying, death, and grief. This study encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and events. Contributors to the growing knowledge of death-related phenomena include social, behavioral, and biomedical researchers as well as economists, health-care providers,... Read more |
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Abner
Abner in the Bible, relative of Saul and commander in chief of his army. Jealousy and revenge probably caused his death at Joab's hands.... Read more |
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Anesthesia, General
...sodium pentothal, before the anesthesia. Stage Three: Surgical Anesthesia. During this stage, the...functions cease to function. Death can result if the patient...unconsciousness Agents used for general anesthesia may be either gases or volatile... |
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Anesthesia
...tissue, whereas in regional anesthesia the drug is injected next...associated with surgery and anesthesia. Stress begins in surgery...kidney failure, or even death. Aging has its greatest adverse...risk of complications from anesthesia and surgery increases ... |
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Death and Dying
...bleeding, and complications of anesthesia. The Joint Commission's...complications resulted in patient deaths, while 16% resulted in a...or to the administration of anesthesia were excluded. Of these complications...procedures, 13% during post-anesthesia ... |
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Tubal Ligation
...spinal anesthesia, or local anesthesia with sedation. The surgery...ligation, and the risks of anesthesia and surgery. Her medical...and bleeding. Rarely, death may occur as a complication of general anesthesia if a major blood vessel... |
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Thoracoscopy
...activity) because the anesthesia and the lung deflation...the thoracoscopy. The anesthesia used can cause vomiting, and, because anesthesia also causes the loss of...serious complications and death. KEY TERMS Endoscope... |
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Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
...they may be performed under local anesthesia. Children are usually placed under general anesthesia. The doctor depresses the tongue...thousand tonsillectomies ends in death, either from the anesthesia or from bleeding to death five to... |
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Vasovasostomy
...vasectomy reversal include death of a child, death of a spouse...anesthetic block or general anesthesia because of the length of time...The advantage of general anesthesia is that the patient remains...remains comfortable. Regional ... |
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Anesthesiologist's Role
...complications caused by the use of anesthesia were a medical issue; however...Despite the growing need for anesthesia and the doubling of the total...past 10 years, the number of deaths resulting from anesthesia have dropped from an estimated... |
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Apgar, Virginia
...prevented thousands of infant deaths. Going into medicine Virginia...practice of giving patients anesthesia. Administered by physicians...responsible for administering anesthesia, but at that time doctors...was hired as director of the anesthesia division at ... |
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Tumor Removal
...and will ultimately result in death if not successfully treated...may be performed under local anesthesia or with no anesthesia at all. Needle biopsy. A...core sample is cut out. Local anesthesia is most often administered... |
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Charcot, Jean Martin (1825-1893)
...questioned at the time of his death. The work of his student...it was learned after his death, had to some extent been prompted...particularly interested in paralysis, anesthesia, and other symptoms considered...narrowing of the visual field, anesthesia) ... |
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Hysteria
...visual disturbances, including hallucination, pain and anesthesia, and so on. As a psychoneurosis, studied by psychoanalysis...x2014; through a corporeal memory, so to speak. The death of his father in 1897 and subsequent self-analysis with Wilhelm... |
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ERRORS LINKED TO 50% OF ANESTHESIA DEATHS.(Main)
...anesthesiology-related deaths in the United States...severe brain damage and death, a doctor said...75 percent of those deaths didn't have to occur...of the department of anesthesia at the University of...noted, however, that deaths due to ... |
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Relatives compensated after E. China anesthesia-related deaths
...compensated after E. China anesthesia-related deaths SANMING, Fujian, Oct. 16...patients who died after receiving anesthesia in a hospital in southeast...and 29 died after receiving anesthesia during surgeries. A 44-year... |
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Hospital president sacked over E. China anesthesia-related deaths
...Hospital president sacked over E. China anesthesia-related deaths SANMING, Fujian Province, Oct. 16 (Xinhua...after four patients died after receiving anesthesia. The head of the anesthesia department in the No. 2 Hospital of Sanming... |
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Two doctors suspended after E. China anesthesia-related deaths
...doctors suspended after E. China anesthesia-related deaths SANMING, Fujian, Oct. 15...his official post after four deaths at a hospital in the eastern...Wednesday. The two administered anesthesia during four surgeries where the... |
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Anesthesia, Exertional Heat Deaths May Be Linked; Malignant hyperthermia occurs...
...to a rare genetic-based anesthesia complication called malignant...multi-organ failure and death. In a review of recent research...though they had not received anesthesia drugs. They collapsed during...hyperthermia when receiving anesthesia. The review is in ... |
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Did deal on anesthesia machines bring death?
...getting a good deal on eight anesthesia machines from a longtime business...contact. Orlando Carbonell, an anesthesia technician Salas had known...and charged with Marrujo's death. The defendant faces one...where his job was to prepare anesthesia machines. ... |
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ANESTHESIA DRUG PULLED AFTER DEATHS.(MAIN)
Byline: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- A recently approved anesthesia drug is being withdrawn because of the suspicious deaths of five patients and reports of other serious side effects. The drug, Raplon, becomes... |
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Florida Teen Death: Anesthesia Choice Likely Creates Another Avoidable Tragedy...
...but Stephanie Kubela's death was just as avoidable, according...expert in cosmetic surgery anesthesia. (Photo: http://www...the predominant choice of anesthesia cosmetic surgery, so her...ketamine or minimally invasive anesthesia (MIA)(R) pioneered by... |
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DEATH BY ANESTHESIA DEATHS LEAD SOME TO QUESTION SAFETY OF SEDATIONS DONE IN...
...Donald Pearce. A spate of deaths - most from liposuction and...doctors' offices. Deaths from anesthesia in a hospital or outpatient...from office-administered anesthesia. Experts believe the overall...regardless of their surgical or ... |
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Doctors urged to avoid aiding lethal injections: The issue: anesthesia in the...
Doctors shouldn't help put inmates to death by lethal injection or work with the legal system to ensure inmates don't feel pain...participate. He said his statement should not be interpreted as a position against the death penalty. |
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