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...feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders dug him out within a minute, rushed him to a hospital, where he was found to be suffering from two broken ribs, a fractured vertebra and possibly a damaged aorta. At week's end, though, doctors reported him out of danger and growling, "When do I get out of here...
...problem: the donor heart almost certainly could not pump enough blood at first, although it might later increase its capacity. He decided to transplant the heart but to assist it for a while with a helium balloon pump inserted through a thigh artery and placed in Block's aorta. This device (TIME, Aug. 25) has worked well for five patients in shock and near death after heart attacks...
Near the arch of the aorta (see diagram) he inserted a plastic catheter tube, which was connected to a heart-lung machine. Another catheter, similarly connected, went into the right auricle. At this point, the whole body was perfused with oxygenated blood. The surgeons then clamped the aorta beyond the catheter and clamped the pulmonary artery and venae cavae, thus isolating the heart from the rest of the body, which thereafter received no circulation...
...painstaking sequence, Dr. Barnard stitched the donor heart in place. First the left-auricle, then the right. He joined the stub of Denise's aorta to Washkansky's, her pulmonary artery to his. Finally, the veins. Assistant surgeons removed the catheters from the implant as Barnard worked...
...begun cooling the recipient baby in a water bath to 59 °F. After 40 minutes, they were ready to cut. One group excised the dead baby's heart while another excised the recipient's. In a mere 30 minutes Dr. Kantrowitz was able to join the aorta, the great veins and pulmonary arteries. From skin to skin, the operation took 2¼ hours...