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A PRELIMINARY REPORT

SIGMUND W. A. FRANKEN, D.D.S.

Arch Intern Med. 1931;48(6):1225-1230.

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For the past two decades, serious consideration has been given to the etiology and prevention of postoperative pneumonia. In a large majority of the well organized hospitals, suggestions made by such men as Whipple,¹ Elwyn² and Henderson³ are now incorporated as a matter of routine. These suggestions include:

1. The better protection of the patient from chills and drafts before, during and after operation and in his journey to and from the operating room.
   
2. The use for abdominal operation of bandages of a type that will aid in relieving the pain of breathing and permit deeper inhalation.
   
3. The use of opiates for a few days post operation to facilitate breathing by elimination of pain.
   
4. The inhalation of carbon dioxide and oxygen at the termination of general anesthesia, for ventilating and removing the anesthetic from the lungs to restore normal breathing.
   
5. The postponement of operations in the presence of
   

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Dental Service, Lenox Hill Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 28, 1931.

Read before the New York Academy of Medicine, Section of Surgery and Rhinology, Dec. 6, 1930.

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