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…only in response to major trauma or surgery. As for the patients with severe haemophilia, they can bleed in response to relatively mild trauma and will bleed spontaneously. In haemophiliacs, the levels of the factor VIII:C are reduced…

…make an "embarrassing sloshing sound". They can also look "artificial on patients who are thin and don't have enough fat or muscle tissue to conceal the implant's rigid, round shape." Dr. Rod Rohrich, chairman of plastic surgery at University of Texas…

…inhalations." Another article dealing with societal influence looks at orthopedic surgery for women's sports injuries. It has not been until recently that orthopedic surgeons have begun to give women's injuries equal care. Because of physical differences women…

…tight resources on bypass surgery for a father of four?" This brings up two important issues, the first, that euthanasia is still used for animals, despite being called "putting to sleep", and secondly, the issue of money and the costliness of keeping…

…to reach higher health and safety criteria for all individuals whether they are a hemophiliac, a pregnant mother and her unborn child, or a senior citizen preparing for open heart surgery. Physicians must continue to instruct and encourage patients able…

…until a child starts crawling or walking in which bruised markings appear were they have fallen or hit something. Hemophilia, in mild forms, may not show up later in life, until extensive bleeding occurs only after surgery, tooth extraction, or major…

…the leaves of the South American coca bush. It is used medically to produce anesthesia for a surgery of the nose and throat and to constrict blood vessels and reduce bleeding during surgery. Abuse of cocaine, which increased considerably in the late 1970’s, can…

…monkeys. In nineteen sixty-one the first human patient was subject to this new procedure. The surgery worked well as a cure for patients who suffered from severe epilepsy and did not respond to anti-epileptic drugs. It was soon realized that patients who had…

…with surgery and drugs which accompany the treatment of modern medicine. So, in an effort to cope with the inadequate treatment patients are receiving from conventional medicine, they are seeking alternatives such as chiropractic for chronic illness and pain…

…lowered the chance of infection during surgery. The discovery of anesthetics provided a treatment for pain inside and outside of the surgery room. Because of basic advances in science during the 19th century people could be treated for illnesses…