SMJ // November 1969, Volume 62 - Issue 11
Article
Nonsurgical Trauma to the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts
An eighteen year experience in the management of trauma to the extrahepatic bile ducts is presented. The management of these 43 patients represents a large series for one to base adequate treatment of this uncommon injury.
Article
Blocking of Beta Adrenergic Receptors in the Urinary Bladder Using Sotalol
This study confirms the presence of sympathetic beta adrenergic receptors in the bladder which may be of significance in the future management of urinary retention and bladder atony.
Article
Symposium Chemical Automation Including Indications, Hazards, Interpretation, and Quality Control
Automation in the analysis of patients and their problems is clearly on the horizon, to rise higher with the passage of years. Doctors must train themselves to work with “machines”—the impact of the “machine” is not to be gainsaid.
Article
Influence of Morphine on Muscle Relaxants in Anesthetized Dogs
This experimental work indicates that morphine and droperidol-fentanyl when given with the relaxant gallamine can have an additive depressive effect.
Article
Positive Contrast Ventriculography
Though toxic effects have been cited in the use of this contrast medium, the authors believe it offers the best means of outlining the third ventricle. This is essential to stereotaxic surgery.
Article
SMALLPOX VACCINATION
Article
Familiar Medical Quotations
Article
The Changing Prognosis in Hemophilic Arthropathy
The availability of factor VIII permits the doing of surgical procedures in hemophiliacs. Thus, the crippling effects of hemarthroses may be attacked surgically and safely.
Article
Two-Plate Fixation of Fractures of the Femoral Shaft
For spiral or comminuted fractures of the femoral shaft, pathologic or for nonunion or malunion, fixation by two strong plates offers satisfactory management. It permits earlier ambulation and development of satisfactory range of motion.
Article
Monitoring Massive Fluid Therapy in Infants
Much more has been written about the maintenance of homeostasis in adults than in infants. The balance is still more critical in the latter than in the former. The authors outline their experiences and methods used for monitoring various parameters in infants.
Article
Prescribing of Low Dioptric Powers in Spectacles
The authors review the indications for correction of what appear to be insignificant degrees of refractive error.
Article
General Practice in the United States Today
The author looks into the future with the development of a Board of Family Practice and an expansion of residencies in this specialty.
Announcement
Awards of the Southern Medical Association
Article
LuteOma Of Pregnancy: Recurrent or Persistent?
Though the authors agree that these tumors are not true neoplasms, they postulate that such hyperplastic lesions may occur in preexisting lesions.
Article
Hearing Aids on Prescription
Article
Experience with the Use of the Macintosh Prosthesis in Knees of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
The management of the painful and nonfunctioning knee in rheumatoid arthritis has not been successful by surgical procedures. The use of this prosthesis has had a modicum of success if the selection of cases was proper.
Article
Thiazide Diuretics and Control of Diabetes Mellitus
This study confirms the fact that the exhibition of thiazide diuretics in the management of certain conditions in diabetic patients not uncommonly results in an adverse effect upon the control of diabetes. It is not of serious degree generally, and is reversible upon discontinuance of the diuretic.
Article
Pin Tract Osteomyelitis
The authors have found that infection and drainage varies greatly from patient to patient. They believe the use of the os calcis for placement of a pin for traction is attended by more of this complication than the use of the tibia.
Article
The Use of Methoxyflurane (Penthrane) as an Analgesic and Anesthetic in Obstetrics
The authors consider the advantages and disadvantages of this relatively new anesthetic in its use in obstetrics. It has much to offer apparently. Because of the need to depend upon nonphysician anesthetists, the authors have described a method of using this drug as a safe anesthetic for obstetric delivery.
Article
Disability Evaluation: A Physiatric Method?
A most valuable paper—“Evaluation is not of disability; it is evaluation of a patient who is disabled.”
Article
Current Concepts in the Pharmacologic Approach to Shock
The more recent approach to the treatment of shock is to reduce vasoconstriction and thereby to restore perfusion of tissues at the cellular level. Thus, symptomatic treatment and maintenance of blood pressure are of a more secondary importance.
