Surgical Procedures, Operative Commons^™

Update - May 2002, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- The Compleat Physician
-- Informed Consent Documentation for Total Artificial Hearth Technology
-- Ralph J. and Carolyn Thompson Endowment established in 2001

Update - December 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Bioehtics Endowment Honors Jack and Margaret Provonsha
-- Partial Birth Abortion: Ethical Issues
-- Partial Birth Abortion: Mandates, Methods, and Morality
-- Partial Birth Abortion Dialogue

Update - October 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Is Organ Reanimation a Better Mousetrap?
-- Reanimation of Dead Hearts
-- Reanimation Dialogue
-- James W. Walters publishes second book on ethics and aging

Update - July 1996, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Stress and Distress in Pediatric Nurses: The Hidden Tragedy of Baby K
-- Ethics Grand Rounds: The Year in Review
-- CEJA Reverses Its Stance on Using Anencephalic Neonates as Live Organ Donors
-- AMA Council's Ethics Overwhelmed by Public Sentiment

Update - October 1995, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Managed Care: Challenges Facing Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams
-- Anencephalic Neonates as Live Organ Donors: AMA and CEJA
-- Can Evil Even End?

Update - July 1995, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Gender Discrimination in the Medical Community

[ Responses to the American Medical Association of the Use of Anencephalic Neonates as Organ Donors ]
-- Maintain the "Dead Donor Rule"
-- Stairway to Hell
-- Let Parents Choose
-- Revisiting the Issues

Update - September 1993, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Abortion in Context: Individual, Family, and Community
-- Abortion Guidelines, Seventh-day Adventist Church, October 12, 1992
-- Holding Values in Tension: The 1992 Abortion Guidelines
-- Adventist Abortion Guidelines: A Clinical Ethicist's Perspective

[ Behind the Scenes: Development of the Abortion Guidelines ]

Update - May 1992, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

[ Faith, Medicine, and Religious Liberty - Part 2, Christian Science ]
-- Spiritual Healing for Children
-- Religious Liberty, Spiritual Healing, and the Health Care of Children
-- Spiritual Healing, Laws, and Constitutional Free Exercise of Religious Rights
-- Baby Theresa: Parental Choice Must Reign in the Case of Brain-Absent Newborns
-- Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors: Do We Follow Rules or Emotions?

Update - May 1990, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- James Walters wins NEH Grant
-- Fraud in Modern Medicine
-- Roy Branson serves as guest professor of medical ethics
-- Cambridge publishes Michael Pearson's study of Adventist ethics

[ RU486: Blessing or Curse? ]
-- Medical Aspects of RU486
-- The Curse of RU486: The Death Pill
-- RU486: A Very Mixed Blessing

-- Robert Wirth sparks aging project

Update - June 1989, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Etienne-Emile Baulieu discusses RU486
-- Walters edits War No More?

[ Abortion: Ethical Issues ]
-- Excerpts of papers presented at the "Abortion: Ethical Issues and Options" international conference

-- Elder, Guy, Provonsha and Winslow assess AIDS at A.P.C.

Update - November 1987, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Gerald Winslow joins LLU faculty
-- Thompson library opens September 25

[ Anencephalic Infants as Organ Donors: Ethical Issues ]
-- A Neonatologist's Concern
-- A Neonatologist's Reply
-- Should the Law be Changed?
-- Would Anencephalic Neonates be Citizens?
-- Cadaveric Donors Should be Dead

-- Ethics Center seeks $100,000

Update - July 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Baby Jessie and Beyond
-- Newsbriefs
-- The Bouvia Decision: Right But Inadequate
-- LLU plans conference on ethics and transplantation

[ Apartheid and Morality Today ]
-- Growing Up White in South Africa
-- In Favor of Constructive Engagement
-- Divestment: Realistic Moral Opposition to Apartheid

-- What should treatment committees consider?
-- Religion and Politics on Sabbath (Editorial)
-- George Otto Schumacher, MD (1913-1986)
-- Thomas Gordon Goman, PhD (1944-1986)

Update - March 1986, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Endowment effort succeeds!
-- In honor of my father
-- Are Apartheid and Nuclear War Biotheical Issues? (Editorial)

[ ABORTION: Understanding Our Differences ]
-- Excerpts from a husband and wife 'debate' regarding abortion

-- The Ethics of Biomedical Ethicists (Critique)

Update - Spring 1985, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- 250 Attend first national ethics conference
-- Capron to discuss "The High Cost of Dying"
-- Our twofold potential (Editorial)
-- Letter to the Editor

[ Reflections Regarding Organ Transplantation ]
-- Excepts from "Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation" public lecture

--Do cancer patients expect too much?

Update - Fall 1984, Loma Linda University Center For Christian Bioethics

Update

In this issue:

-- Robert Veatch to lecture in January at Loma Linda
-- Bioethics conference slated for April
-- Charles Teel Jr. will lead Central America probe

[ Reflections Regarding Baby Fae ]
-- Ethical Issues Evoked by Baby Fae
-- The Best Available Therapy
-- The Morality of Experimenting Upon Children

-- Who Should Live When All Can? (Review)
-- Ruffcorn pledges yearly $10,000
-- Cafferky's provide $100,000
-- Ethics center seeks $500,000

Antibiotics And The Wasting Disease In Neonatally Thymectomized Rats, Douglas M. Grignon

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The administration of the antibiotic, Chloramphenicol, to pregnant rats just prior to, and for four days after delivery, diminishes the incidence of the so-called "Wasting Disease" in neonatally thymectomized rats.

A total of 50 rats were divided into the following groups:

1. Thymectomy only---nonmedicated 17 rats
2. Thymectomy only---medicated 12 rats
3. Thymectomy-adrenalectomy---nonmedicated 5 rats
4. Thymectomy-adrenalectomy---medicated 8 rats
5. Controls---nonmedicated 4 rats
6. Controls---medicated 4 rats

Chloramphenicol was administered in the drinking water to the mothers of groups 2, 4 and 6 for about 2 days prior to delivery and 4 days after. On the day of birth or within three days after birth, the …

Surgery For Benign Biliary Tract Disease : An Analysis Of 310 Cases From Smaller Hospitals, Theodore E. Wade

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

[Abstract Not Included]

Summary:

The results of biliary tract surgery in three small general hospitals serving suburban communities was studied. Their average daily censuses were 38, 70, and 97. Fourteen (4.5%) of 310 cases of benign biliary tract disease died after surgery. Among 219 cases of elective cholecystectomy, four patients (l.8%) died. The mortality in 1196 cases reported from small hospitals by this, and three other authors, was 3.3%. This is slightly higher than the mean mortality, 2.4% among 25 reports of surgical mortality for gall stone disease found in the literature. The maximum number of cases came to surgery …

Cancer Of The Lungs, H. James Hara

Medical Arts and Sciences: A Scientific Journal of the College of Medical Evangelists

No abstract provided.

Plastic Surgery Of The Nose And Face, Edward King

Medical Arts and Sciences: A Scientific Journal of the College of Medical Evangelists

No abstract provided.

Fractures Of The Nasal And Maxillary Bones, Milo C. Schroeder

Medical Arts and Sciences: A Scientific Journal of the College of Medical Evangelists

No abstract provided.

A New Surgical Approach For Vagotomy, Diaphragmatic Herniotomy, Splenectomy, And Operations Upon The Gastro-Esophageal Area Through The Left Sub-Diaphragmatic Extraperitoneal Space, H. A. Davis

Medical Arts and Sciences: A Scientific Journal of the College of Medical Evangelists

No abstract provided.

Intracranial Surgery, William T. Grant

Medical Arts and Sciences: A Scientific Journal of the College of Medical Evangelists

No abstract provided.