HiccAway! UT Health San Antonio Physician Develops Device to Relieve Hiccups
September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 10 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release:
A neuro-intensive care physician at UT Health San Antonio has invented a science-based way to stop hiccups.
While he was working as an anesthesiologist 20 years ago, Ali Seifi, MD, FACP, FNCS, saw many surgery patients in the recovery room who developed hiccups. The annoying spasming of the diaphragm is even more of a nuisance when one . . .
A neuro-intensive care physician at UT Health San Antonio has invented a science-based way to stop hiccups.
While he was working as an anesthesiologist 20 years ago, Ali Seifi, MD, FACP, FNCS, saw many surgery patients in the recovery room who developed hiccups. The annoying spasming of the diaphragm is even more of a nuisance when one . . .