NEW DRUG FOR OPERATIONS
Aid To Speed Of Surgery
(Rec. 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10. British hospitals are testing a drug which enables surgeons to perform intricate operations more skilfully and rapidly than ever before by almost eliminating the loss of blood. Known as HMD— hexamthonium bromide—it has been described in two papers by Dr. Geprge Hale Enderby, anaesthetist of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London, who was the first to try it. Trials so far have shown that the drug provides three great advantages: (1) It reduces the risk of severe hemorrhage, making operations safer. (2) It enables a surgeon to operate more surely and quickly because the tissues are not obscured by the blood. (3) It helps the patient to make a quicker recovery by reducing the shock of surgery and its usual accompanying loss of blood. The drug acts bv causing a rapid fall in blood pressure. By propping the patient in different positions the surgeon can make any part of the body almost bloodless.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26576, 12 November 1951, Page 7
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NEW DRUG FOR OPERATIONS
Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26576, 12 November 1951, Page 7
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