Death following the Inhalation of Chloroform in Surgical Operations

Myocardial infarction following surgical operations.

One hundred and forty-one randomly selected surgical patients, aged 35 years or over, were studied preoperatively, followed through their operative procedures, and reassessed during the first post-operative week for evidence of myocardial ischaemia associated with surgical operations under general anaesthesia. Of these patients 38% were found to have preoperative clinical evidence of heart dise...

Decrease of serum cholesterol in rabbits following chloroform inhalation and as diurnal variation.

Normal rabbits were exposed to single, subanesthetitizing doses of chloroform vapors and a regular decrease in their total serum cholesterol was found. In rabbits with abnormally high serum cholesterol levels, however, no consistent changes were observed. In control experiments it was found that in the normal rabbit there is a diurnal variation in serum cholesterol, with lowest values around 4 ...

The Efficacy of Suction Drainage in Surgical Operations of Long Bone Fractures in Orthopedics

In this experimental trial , 133 patients with single long bone fracture requiring surgery, admitted in Shahid Mohammadi Hospital (Bandar Abbas/Iran) from June 2002 to April 2003, were randomly devided into two groups. In the first group (72 individuals), after the completion of the operation a single hemovac drain was inserted, while in the second group (61 patients) no drain was used. The two...

On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations.

I have spoken of a knowledge of the strength of the vapour as being essential to a correct determination of the state of the patient at all times: and this brings us to the apparatus for the administration of the vapour, as, without a suitable one, the proportions of air and of vapour cannot be determined. I had the honour of shewing that these proportions could be easily and precisely controll...

Death under Chloroform