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Pace TRI-CITY HERALD PASCO KENNEWICK RICHLAND WASHINGTON Tuesday May 23 1972 'Bloodless surgery being developed going the same procedures Eckenhoff said surgeons now think that patients who are not in severely deteriorated condition can sustain a loss of up to one quart of blood without replacement The need to develop surgical techniques which did not require blood transfusions was stimulated in part by limitations on usual forms of surgery imposed by the faith of Witnesses whose religion opposes transfusion of donor blood The Korean and Vietnamese how fast patients come in response to the nutrient buildup It was of a ritual" in the past to replace lost blood unit for unit he said The blood-buildup technique has been used clinically at the University of Pennsylvania hospitals for about four years he said and has beat used at major medical centers around the nation for the past two Surgeons do not uniformly accept the method because it means extra work to build up patients before and after surgery he said easiest thing to do is to hang a bottle of blood" Dudrick said noting that some still rely on the transfusion when it erans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia has helped develop one alternative method of blood replacement This involves building up the blood before and after surgery with various nutrients such as amino acids and iron to make transfusions unnecessary Other techniques involve the heart-lung machine lowering of blood pressure and cryosurgery or freezing There are still other procedures too Not all patients can be treated with the blood buildup method Dudrick emphasized in an interview They must be fairly healthy and the surgery must not be urgent to allow time to build up the blood Dudrick said "it is amazing CHICAGO (AD throw around a bottle of blood willy nilly anymore" says Dr Stanley Dudrick Thus does one surgeon characterize a growing trend toward surgery" when it is possible and applicable Two goals of bloodless surgery are to avoid potential hazards from transfusions including transmitting the liver disease hepatitis and to reduce the need for blood donors At present about seven million blood transfusions are given annually in the United States and there's a shortage of donors Dudrick of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and chief of surgery at the Vet EAGLE SCOUT Jim Daniel 17 Richland sill be awarded the Eagle Scout rank at a court of honor Wednesday in Central United Protestant Church The son of Mr and Mrs Daniel 2001 Davison Ave Joined the Far East Council in Tokyo in 1966 state of suspended animation Other forms of bloodless sur gery include cryosurgery which Involves freezing at extremely high temperatures to remove malignancies and treat certain other conditions Dr Irving Cooper of SL Barnabas Hospital New York City has been the leader in this technique A New York City physicist this year was awardkl a patent for a method of ultrasonic cauterization This scalpel patented by Lewis Balamuth vibrates at a very high frequency such as 30000 strokes a second over a distance of about five-thousandths of an inch The blood vessels are closed off by heat from the friction and it is expected that this will eliminate the need to tie off severed veins and arteries now necessary in surgery Best seller AMSTERDAM (AP) A report on environmental control prepared under the direction of-PTOf Dennis Meadows of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become a best seller in the Netherlands Meadows said more than 150-000 copies were sold in two months might not be necessary Dr James Eckenhoff dean of Northwestern University Medical School has been a leader in development of surgical techniques involving the lowering of blood to reduce blood loss in certain problems This is particularly useful in surgery of the head and neck and the upper extremities in neurosurgery and in plastic surgery he said The hypotension technique Eckenhoff said in an interview markedly reduce the loss of blood and the need for This technique has had wider use in England where Ecken-h an anesthesiologist worked in perfecting it at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead A decade ago surgeons replaced blood if the loss exceeded 400 or 500 cubic centimeters about a pint but now replace much of lost blood with nutrient solutions he said The transfusion itself may cause death he said noting that one of every 4000 to 5000 bottles of blood has fatal effects This can result from blood mismatching allergic response to donor blood and contaminated blood Even when the effect is not fatal already sick patients are sometimes made sicker by problems caused by donor blood he added I comparative studies patients whose blood pressure was lowered required less than half the amount of replacement blood required by others under Ozone weakens red cells says expert wars also taught surgeons to wok with less donated blood Eckenhoff said because there was not enough to meet the needs of men injured in battle A leading heart surgeon Dr Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute Houston said he is not opposed to blood transfusions but fact is evident now that most major surgery can be done without transfusion" Cooley noted for open heart surgery and as a pioneer in heart transplants said some doctors use blood transfusions a crutch" or because the blood is available continue to do our surgery with a minimum of transfusions" Cooley said in an interview "Our goal is to see how little we can Cooley uses the heart-lung machine to take over the work of the heart in circulating the own blood while working on the heart itself At the American College of annual meeting in Atlantic City NJ during the autumn Harvard Medical School researchers reported on still another technique for preserving the blood during heart surgery The report was given by Dr Mortimer Buckley who with his colleagues Drs Gerald Austen Allan Goldblatt and Myron Laver developed a technique for diluting the blood then reinfusing his own after surgery The patient's temperature is lowered slowing his metabolism Eighty per cent of his blood is removed and stored At the same time the blood is replaced by three times as much nutrient solution as blood withdrawn Circulation is maintained through the heart-lung machine With this technique Buckley said it is possible even to suspend circulation during the repair procedure on some patients placing them in a to 1 -V SPEAKER Owen Mike director id the Benton-Franklin Mental Health and Family Counseling Center will speak at pm Wednesday (not Thursday as Herald said) In Room C-117 at Columbia Basin College The meeting is open and is sponsored by the bicounty mental health association first-class letters per cent of the airmail letters arrived later than ments of exposing human blood to pollutants in the air were undertaken to find out why and are the first to hint at a physiological explanation He said a second step of the experiments was to find out how the ozone in smog weakens the walls of the red cells The researchers found that the chemistry involved i somewhat like that which occurs in butter when it becomes rancid Balchum said in an interview The process is called lipid peroxidation Lipo-protcins or fatly acid proteins are important structural components of all cells including red blood cells "They are necessary maintain the integrity their shape form and function" Balchum said The thing that happens is that the ozone a form of oxygen combines chemically with the unsaturated fatty acids in the lipo-proteins changing them and destroying their function of maintaining the integrity of the IJJ tftVj! 11 y' I JV 'rl is THMt-WaihiiiftM Past Sarvica LOS ANGELES University if Southern California medical research has proved that ozone a principal irritant in Los Angeles-type smog weakens the wails of red blood cells It is the first time that a definite physiological effect of photochemical smog has been demonstrated in the laboratory Dr Oscar Balchum professor of medicine at the USC School of Medicine and director of the pulmonary research lab at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center said the walls of red cells in human blood become fragile and disintegrate when exposed to ozone (He also credited Battellc Northwest research using rats with showing that a diet deficient in Vitamin made the cell wall disintegration more severe (In the three-year Battclle study completed last year for federal air pollution control authorities researchers showed nsmBsramg cJ Mm tor Prl 11 i pm fij LUNCHEON SPECIAL SNACK box 95 fp MMwi Milton rvy rtf Nm tones hr SIM KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN 3 Pik Ktmtwkfc RicMiiW HQKLtEQBQKSIEt Use of Zip Code speed mail r-Junior Editors' Quiz on- BADMINTON that rats fed with Vitamin-E-fortified diets lived more than twice as long as rats on regular food both groups dying of lung damage from breathing ozone equivalent to levels in a smoggy Los Angeles day (The Battclle scientists have been unsuccessful in getting followup research grants although officials said the conclusions were promising (In the Balchum studies the human blood cells weakened in exposure to ozone but the findings have not been proved with humans who breathed ozone from polluted air) "That is only an assumption and remains to be proved" Dr Balchum said It is an assumption however that is strengthened by evidence obtained at the pulmonary lab that the walls of red cells of animals do become fragile and weakened when the animals breathe ozone There is little or no statistical evidence that photochemical smog is harmful physically but Dr Balchum pointed out that mortality statistics are crude It is realized of course that photochemical smog does have physical effects such as making breathing uncomfortable ami difficult after exercise and irritating the eyes Dr Balchum's group at USC two years ago showed that smog makes people work harder to breathe They have to put out more energy to get enough oxygen The experi 9:30 pm to 1:30 am 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