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 Babies are now receiving anesthesia when operated on, thankfully, but 50,000 Americans this year will have their digestive tracts partially ripped out in a procedure marketed to them by surgeons hawking the latest weight loss "cure" who just happen to avoid mentioning all the sexy side effects of the procedure (like having to drink all your food through a straw for the rest of your life, or puking every time you swallow any chunk of food larger than a tater tot).
The fad procedures always change, you see, but the cons don't. |
| How could surgeons be so cruel as to operate on babies without anesthesia?
The bizarre beliefs of surgeons
The answer, as strange as it now seems, is that they actually believed babies couldn't feel pain. It's absurd, yes, but the mindset continues today with medical experiments on animals, where researchers tell themselves these animals don't feel pain either.
Much of conventional medicine has always been based on a lie, or a series of lies. Babies feel no pain. Lab rats feel no pain. Monkeys are not conscious beings. |
| Surgery has a dark and dreadful history in the Western world, and the practice of operating on babies without anesthesia is just one footnote in a saga too terrifying to accurately describe. Its real history is hardly ever talked about today, just as doctors don't readily admit their profession once hawked cigarettes on television, proudly proclaiming Camels were, "Recommended by more doctors than any other cigarette!"
But the practice was real, and it was "standard operating procedure" at places like Oxford University and Boston Children's Hospital. It makes us all wonder, though... |
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 McAndrew questioned her mother about what the referring physician had said they would do if she were diagnosed with cancer, since she was obviously so weak she could never have withstood general anesthesia to remove a tumor, much less the pain and trauma of surgery with only local anesthesia. "My mother was telling me about getting a mammogram in the context of saying how great Medicare is, that it would pay for everything. But this is somebody who has the life expectancy of a fruit fly" says McAndrew. |
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| Important: Injecting local anesthesia into nerves at the base of the prostate makes the procedure less painful. Not all surgeons are familiar with this technique. Before the biopsy, make sure that local anesthesia is available.
Following the biopsy, there may be slight soreness in the area around the rectum for a few days.
The risk for infection from the biopsy is 1%. To minimize this risk, surgeons should give an antibiotic beforehand.
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| To stop the babies from screaming in terror, surgeons gave them heavy doses of muscle relaxants, paralyzing them for the duration of the procedure. And so these babies could only watch in terrified amazement, prisoners in their own tiny bodies, unable to move a muscle or make a sound, as strange men wearing masks and wielding sharp instruments went to work on their flesh.
If it sounds like a "mad doctor" horror film, think again: This was a common practice by U.S. surgeons right up to the 1980's. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| McAndrew questioned her mother about what the referring physician had said they would do if she were diagnosed with cancer, since she was obviously so weak she could never have withstood general anesthesia to remove a tumor, much less the pain and trauma of surgery with only local anesthesia. "My mother was telling me about getting a mammogram in the context of saying how great Medicare is, that it would pay for everything. But this is somebody who has the life expectancy of a fruit fly" says McAndrew. |
Devra Davis
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 Some of the agents used to induce anesthesia in years past, like trichloroethylene, are now understood to break the back of genetic material in ways that can lead to cancer. Other anesthetic gases have been tied with damage to the nervous system.
Benzene, that remarkable chemical that has fostered so much of the modern revolution in chemistry, can slip into the bloodstream and into the bone marrow. Since 1928, scientists have understood that benzene can cause AML in those who work with it regularly. Why doctors should be among them may not be that difficult to understand. |
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 A possible cause of cardiovascular collapse during anesthesia: Long-term use of St. John's Wort. J Clin Anesth 12:498-499. 2000.
Ishiguro K, Yamaki M, Kashihara M, et al: A chromene from Hypericum japonicum. Phytochemistry 29:1010-1011. 1990.
Ishiguro K, Yamaki M, Kashihara M, et al: Saroaspidin A, B, and C - additional antibiotic compounds from Hypericum japonicum. Planta Med 53(5):415-417. 1987.
Ishiguro K, Yamaki M, Kashihara M, et al: Sarothalin G - a new antimicrobial compound from Hypericum japonicum. Planta Med 56(3):274-276. 1990a. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 Feeling need means feeling the need for oxygen if it was lacking at birth due to anesthesia. The patient may gasp, gag, and turn red in the reliving. She is reliving the need without speaking any words. That is sufficient. Pain won't let go until basic need is felt. So yes, we must feel pain but that is a way station to need. Feeling "Help me, Momma" over and over will stop the act-out of having women mother us. We cannot just feel it once and expect change; we must feel it often and with the strength of the deprivation at the time. |
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| Larger doses caused sleep and anesthesia, followed by nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, depression and drowsiness. As with many hazards, workers already knew what they were up against. Those employed in drycleaning establishments where benzene was used talked about the "naptha jag," which Hamilton said resembled being mildly drunk.
Hamilton recounted that other physicians had figured out the power of this widely used solvent. "A physician in a town where there is a large rubber factory told me of such a case in his practice. |
| Antibiotics and life-saving surgery and life-sparing anesthesia made it possible to prolong life.
Questions about what people could do to promote their health became more important once some of these modern medical interventions became widely available. Austin Bradford Hill, Richard Doll, Thomas Chalmers, Archie Cochrane and other clinical pioneers created a system that had never existed before. Information could be gathered to determine what medical practices actually worked and which didn't. The radical impact of their work is hard to appreciate. |
| Still hazy from the anesthesia, she heard the surgeon say, "The good news is that you do not have cancer."
"I looked around and stared at him," she remembers. "I had spent this time getting ready to die. To tell the truth, I thought I had cancer and they were lying to me because they wanted to make me feel better. So when they said things were okay, at first I did not believe them. I made them show me all the slides."
In fact, Braiman had neither cancer nor tuberculosis. But her lungs contained about sixty different small, round deposits of what turned out to be hairspray lacquer. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| It may be an analogue of a birth where there was excitement and struggle followed immediately by anesthesia to the mother (therefore, to the fetus) and shut down. The birth sequence is a prototype that dogs us all of our lives. In therapy we see this in patients who try hard in the first minutes of a session and then give up and feel hopeless. Similarly, to feel defeated is real—a real reaction to a real event of being deprived any struggle at birth due to a heavy anesthetic administered to the mother, not some neurotic aberration! If we try to remove that attitude ("What's the use of trying?" |
| To save himself, his system slowed down to a passive, waiting state, a physiology of defeat and despair, as there was nothing he could do about what was happening (the anesthesia). This was later compounded by his childhood treatment by his parents, who never let him express his feelings or object to anything. There was no use in battling at birth, and later no use in struggling for anything with his parents, which would have only made them more dismissive and unresponsive. |
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| Better anesthesia and improved technologies for saving patients both during and after surgery markedly reduced the risks of operations. Transfusions of blood and saline solutions reduced death from shock. With the new antibiotics, previously fatal postsurgical infections fell rapidly. By 1950 about half of all women with localized breast cancer survived five years. The number of patients living for five years after other forms of surgery also rose substantially. The percentage of medical doctors who were surgeons doubled between 1935 and 1965.
As a cure, however, surgery had its limits. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Diminished oxygen at birth and before (a carrying mother smoking at least 10 cigarettes a day plus anesthesia at birth) establishes a physiologic record. This record orchestrates a large variety of reactions; each reaction is an adaptation to the threat against survival. Thus, there are lowered oxygen levels as expressed through chronic fatigue syndrome, for example, and many phenomena governed by brainstem functions, such as butterflies in the stomach, dizziness, spaciness, and a vague terror. All of the visceral reactions can be included here. |
| One author noted that scientific evidence supports a theory that most psychiatric drugs "work" by producing a kind of anesthesia of the mind, spirit, or feelings.
Work by R. Gaunt put rats under stress (tied to a board), then gave them tranquilizers. They seemed indifferent to their problem, but their bodies weren't. There were high readings in stress hormones. We need to keep this in mind when we take tranquilizers; for the wear and tear on the body goes on even if we are unaware of it.
Nearly all of us are prisoners of our prototype—our dominant mode of functioning. |
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| Before the biopsy, make sure that local anesthesia is available.
Following the biopsy, there may be slight soreness in the area around the rectum for a few days.
The risk for infection from the biopsy is 1%. To minimize this risk, surgeons should give an antibiotic beforehand.
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J. Stephen Jones, MD, vice-chair, Glickman Urologi-cal Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and author of The Complete Prostate Book What Every Man Needs to Know and Overcoming Impotence. Prometheus. |
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| Mean pain scores in the two groups were not significantly different at any stage during the 24-hour period after anesthesia wore off. LAS was not associated with any significantly greater blood loss in the period after surgery. The incidence of drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, and the need for antiemetic medication were similar in both groups (Jones et al 1985). indications and usage
Unproven Uses: The most popular use of supplemental lysine is for preventing and treating episodes of herpes simplex virus. Lysine has been used in conjunction with calcium to prevent and treat osteoporosis. |
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| Women also experience more side effects from anesthesia than men and are more likely to report some consciousness during surgical procedures.
Despite this, women tend to be given less pain-relieving medication in the recovery room following surgery.
Reason: A man's blood pressure rises when he's in pain. Doctors rely on this to indicate when to use drugs and how much to give. Women in pain frequently have a drop in blood pressure—and a more rapid heart rate as a result, which is a better indicator of how much distress they are feeling. |
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| Anesthetics: Concurrent may result in an increased risk of cardiovascular collapse and/or delayed emergence from anesthesia. Clinical Management: Discontinue St. John's Wort at least 5 days before surgery using anesthetics.
Anticoagulants: Concurrent use may result in decreased warfarin plasma concentrations leading to reduced anticoagulant effectiveness. Clinical Management: Concomitant use of anticoagulants with St. John's Wort is not recommended. If patients elect to remain on St. John's Wort, symptoms of decreased anticoagulant efficacy and prothrombin times should be closely monitored. |
| All patients received 5% providone iodine antiseptic enema before surgery, and ceftriaxone sodium and metronidazole were given at anesthesia induction. Senna was significantly better than PEG with regard to colonic cleanliness and less fecal matter in the colonic lumen. The risk for moderate or large intraoperative fecal soiling was lower with Senna and overall clinical tolerance did not differ significantly between the treatment groups. Senna was better tolerated in patients with stenosis. |
| Clinical Management: Succinylcholine should generally be avoided during anesthesia in patients receiving cholinesterase inhibitors. The use of succi-nycholine in these situations will lead to prolonged paralysis, which will require ventilation and supportive care until muscle function returns. overdosage
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The intake of very high dosages leads to central excitation (restlessness, compulsive speech, hallucinations, delirium, manic episodes), followed by exhaustion and sleep. |
| Effects of the first (ether) extract of ginseng on the cardiovascular dynamics of dogs during halothane anesthesia. Comp Med East West; 6:115-121. 1978.
Lee SJ; Sung JH; Lee SJ et al. Antitumor activity of a novel ginseng saponin metabolite in human pulmonary adenocarcinoma cells resistant to cisplatin. Cancer Lett Sep 20;144(l):39-43. 1999.
Lei XL & Chiou GC. Cardiovascular pharmacology of Panax notoginseng (Burk) F.H. Chen and Salvia militiorrhiza. Am J Chin Med; 14:145-152. 1986.
Lewis R; Wake G; Court G et al. Non-ginsenoside nicotinic activity in ginseng species. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Tonsillectomies were not a major operation, but they were painful, and they did pose a small risk of death from anesthesia and bleeding. And the researchers simply couldn't believe that the children in Morrisville were suffering ten times the number of swollen tonsils and ear infections as the kids in Middlebury. They also knew that people living in different regions of Vermont were strikingly similar in terms of their education and income, which predict how often people get sick. (The poor, not surprisingly, suffer more illness than the rich. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| The trough is the point at which the struggle to be born is blocked either by a cord around the neck, massive anesthesia, or other obstacles. It sets up a "struggle-fail" syndrome, and shifts brain gears into a repressed mode (parasympathetic). This is the meaning of resonance: something in the present triggers off the second-line-related feeling and then down to the first line, but only when the patients is ready.
Eva was driven to keep from slipping into the trough where death lurked. Death loomed, and "getting out"—her escape—was impossible. |
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 But in a second corrective procedure in February 2004, blood was mistakenly injected back into the spinal fluid while he was being treated under local anesthesia, sparking a rapid autoimmune reaction that would nearly cost Mullin his life. Since blood does not normally enter the cerebrospinal fluid, the body viewed these new, circulating blood proteins as potentially dangerous invaders that they needed to destroy. |
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 Doctors at the Cleveland City Hospital study changes in cerebral blood flow by injecting test subjects with spinal anesthesia, inserting needles in their jugular veins and brachial arteries, tilting their heads down and, after massive blood loss causes paralysis and fainting, measuring their blood pressure. They often perform this experiment multiple times on the same subject (Goliszek).
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| Marion Sims, later hailed as the "father of gynecology," performs medical experiments on enslaved African women without anesthesia. These women would usually die of infection soon after surgery. Based on his belief that the movement of newborns' skull bones during protracted births causes trismus, he also uses a shoemaker's awl, a pointed tool shoemakers use to make holes in leather, to practice moving the skull bones of babies born to enslaved mothers (Brinker). |
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