This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on Web of Science (9)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

HENRY K. BEECHER, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;62(2):206-238.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

SEPARATION of essential procedures from the nonessential is one of the primary goals of the work done by my colleagues and me on anesthesia for thoracic surgery. We have tried and are trying to give answers to various problems in this field in terms of objective data. It seems to us that such a simplifying approach is necessary if procedures are to be soundly accepted or rejected. Clarification is important not only for the thoracic surgeon but for the well trained general surgeon who, more and more, is occupied with surgery in or through the thorax.

THE LOBECTOMY—PNEUMONECTOMY GROUP

In some clinics anesthesia procedures for lobectomy or pneumonectomy have varied considerably in recent years and have been growing more complicated. This contrasts with our practice, which has tended to become more stable and simple with the passage of time. The technic which has crystallized from the uncertainties of earlier years . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Anesthesia Laboratory of the Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?