Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M Kocan.
This article considers the three Rorschach tests obtained over an 8-year period for one female patient who struggled around her image of herself and others. Her struggle is revealed in the vicissitudes of the reflection responses over the three testings. A formulation is advanced regarding the meaning and significance of the reflection response as an indication of an emerging self-experience.
Sixty male patients undergoing limb surgery were anaesthetised using a drawover technique with the Triservice apparatus. They were randomly allocated to receive trichloroethylene and one of three other volatile agents (halothane, enflurane or isoflurane) after thiopentone induction. Signs of inadequate anaesthesia were noted. The incidence of such signs was not significantly different in the three groups. Similarly, no qualitative difference could be demonstrated in the immediate recovery, but the recovery time was significantly shorter with enflurane.