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blowtorched catheters out of Teflon tubing at his hotel.

Italian translation: Realizzava cateteri (a partire) da tubi di Teflon usando la fiamma ossidrica...

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English term or phrase:blowtorched catheters out of Teflon tubing at his hotel.
Italian translation:Realizzava cateteri (a partire) da tubi di Teflon usando la fiamma ossidrica...
Entered by: texjax DDS PhD

18:10 Jan 26, 2019
English to Italian translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Cardiology / coronagrophy
English term or phrase: blowtorched catheters out of Teflon tubing at his hotel.
One of these
doctors was Charles Dotter, a radiologist at
the University
of Oregon. At a conference in Prague in 1963,
Dotter predicted that the angiographic catheter could be
“more than a tool for diagnostic observation. Used with imagination,
it can become an important surgical instrument.”
Dotter—“
Crazy Charlie,” to some—was
an odd bird: a mountain
climber, ornithologist, and amphetamine addict. He fash-
ioned guide wires for his procedures out of guitar string, and
at conferences he blowtorched catheters out of Teflon tubing
at his hotel.
Once, in the middle
of delivering a lecture on cardiac
catheterization, he rolled up his shirtsleeve to reveal to the
audience that he had placed a catheter in his own heart that
morning. Then, as he continued to lecture, he connected himself
to an oscilloscope to record the pressures from his cardiac
chambers.
Dotter
budu
Local time: 04:18
Realizzava cateteri (a partire) da tubi di Teflon usando la fiamma ossidrica...
Explanation:
...nella sua stanza d'hotel.

E variazioni sul tema ma il significato è decisamente questo. Non riscontro particolari difficoltà.
Magari si trattava di una piccola torcia, tipo quelle per dolci. Potresti anche scriverlo, ma non corrisponde al testo sorgente.

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blowtorched catheters out of teflon tubing at his hotel.
Realizzava cateteri (a partire) da tubi di Teflon usando la fiamma ossidrica...


Explanation:
...nella sua stanza d'hotel.

E variazioni sul tema ma il significato è decisamente questo. Non riscontro particolari difficoltà.
Magari si trattava di una piccola torcia, tipo quelle per dolci. Potresti anche scriverlo, ma non corrisponde al testo sorgente.



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