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C H Woollam

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PubMed1998

Acupuncture in the management of chronic pain.

This article reports the results of a survey of acupuncture practice in chronic pain clinics in the United Kingdom. The survey reveals that acupuncture is widely used in the treatment of chronic pain with 84% of those responding stating that is was available at their clinics. The majority of practitioners had attended a course at one of the 'acupuncture schools' but in about one fifth of the clinics the practitioner had not received any formal training.

Acupuncture Analgesia↗
PubMed1977

The effect of diazepam and lorazepam on awareness during anaesthesia for Caesarian section.

One hundred-and-eighty-three patients having general anaesthesia for Caesarian section were given lorazepam or diazepam intravenously immediately following delivery. The incidence of unpleasant recall was comparable with the reports of other workers. There was no evidence of a specific retrograde amnesic effect by either drug. Neither agent appeared to affect cardiovascular stability, uterine contraction, the reversal of muscle relaxant or the time to recovery of protective reflexes. The patients tended to be drowsier after lorazepam but as safe as after diazepam so far as circulation, respiration and protective reflexes were concerned.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

The development of apparatus for intermittent negative pressure respiration. (2) 1919-1976, with special reference to the development and uses of cuirass respirators.

This paper and the one that preceded it1 have traced the development of the design and use of negative pressure ventilators from their origins in the early nineteenth century to the present day. Their maximum use was in the nineteen-forties and the early fifties after which they were quite rapidly replaced in the treatment of acute respiratory disease by intermittent positive pressure ventilators-the turning point being the severe poliomyelitis epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952. Negative pressure ventilators, particularly cuirass ventilators, still have a place in the treatment of chronic respiratory disease.

Australia↗
PubMed1976

Respiratory failure in pregnancy.

A case of respiratory failure in pregnancy associated with old poliomyelitis is presented and the available methods of treatment described.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

The development of appartus for intermittent negative pressure respiration.

The history of tank and cuirass respirators from the first known use of the intermittent negative pressure principle in 1832 to 1918, on the threshold of its extensive use in the treatment of respiratory paralysis, has been related. A second article will consider the period 1918 to the present day and suggest that negative pressure apparatus-particularly the cuirass respirator-still has its uses.

Adult↗