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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Counting Backwards, Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo?a pediatric anesthesiologist with more than thirty years of experience?delivers an unforgettable account of the procedure?s daily dramas and fundamental mysteries. Przybylo has administered anesthesia more than 30,000 times in his career?erasing consciousness, denying memory, and immobilizing the body, and then reversing all of these effects?on newborn babies, screaming toddlers, sullen teenagers, even...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anesthetize: to render insensible. First there's the injection, then the countdown--and next thing you know, you're awake. [This book] is the story of the time in between, an exploration of that most crucial and baffling gift of modern medicine: the disappearing act that enables us to undergo procedures that would otherwise be impossibly, often fatally, painful. In the past 150 years, anesthesia has made surgical intervention routine, from open-heart...
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