Word: aorta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left ventricle contracted, it propelled most of its blood, against negligible resistance, into the pump's Silastic chamber. The electrical impulse signaling this event then triggered the pump, and a gush of oxygen into the outer Fiberglas chamber squeezed the blood out of the Silastic core into the aorta. In the process, it pushed the blood along with much more force than Mrs. Ceraso's enlarged and enfeebled left ventricle could have mustered unaided. To reduce the risk of blood damage or other complications, Dr. Kantrowitz and the hovering cardiologists did not leave the pump running continuously...
...turn, he was suddenly blinded by a bit of rag or paper that blew into his face. The car spun wildly, slid 450 ft. backward into the wall so violently that the starting shaft penetrated 5 in. into the concrete. Rodee died of a ruptured aorta-the 30th driver fatality at Indy...
...half-heart pump is next used, which may be within a couple of weeks, DeBakey's mechanical-minded research assistant, Surgeon William Aker, will have made some minor modifications. In DeRudder's case, the two main inflow and outflow tubes, stitched into his left auricle and aorta, were led to a plastic frame, 1½ in. thick, implanted in the chest wall. The hemispherical pump was attached externally to this. The connecting tips of the frame for the pump will be modified to make the surgery simpler and therefore quicker...
...decide that the answer was yes. Swiftly Dr. DeBakey took one of the two plastic tubes attached to the pump device and stitched it into the hole in the left auricle. Then he took the other tube and sewed it into a hole in the side of the aorta. At DeRudder's chest wall, the round plaque holding these tubes, together with smaller tubes for priming and flushing with saline solution, was attached to a hemispheric chamber 3 in. in diameter. Inside this was a Silastic diaphragm, which alternately generated pressure and exerted suction as it was worked...
...blood from DeRudder's lungs then flowed normally into his left auricle. From there, up to 80% of it was drawn by suction into the pump chamber, held for an instant by a check valve, then pushed by the pressure of the pump's downstroke into the aorta, which supplies all the body's arteries. The rest took nature's course. It passed through the newly implanted artificial mitral valve into the ventricle, which continued to beat, and out into the aorta...