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...doctor described a motor vehicle accident after which a victim with multiple broken bones and a ruptured aorta was taken to a public hospital 30 miles away because she did not have any insurance. "This kind of case is not uncommon in the U.S," he said...
Renelt collapsed in the Yard on Febuary 20, and died shortly afterwards--the result of an undetected, fast-growing cancerous tumor around his aorta. Renelt was 26 years...
...slender cable linked to a motor outside the body, took on the work of the ailing ventricle. Spinning 25,000 times a minute -- about four times as fast as a sports-car engine -- the pump drew a steady stream of blood out of the chamber and into the aorta, the main vessel carrying blood to the body. Afterward, Frazier exulted, "This is really an astonishing device...
...with five counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from technical foul-ups and poor judgment in the operating room. A five-page list detailing the charges specifies that Billig "wrongfully sewed" and tied blood vessels during bypass surgery, "improperly manipulated" heart tissue and, in one case, "tore" a woman's aorta and "improperly repaired" it. Also listed are 24 counts of dereliction of duty for performing unauthorized operations. If he is convicted on all counts, the surgeon, who was commissioned in December 1982, faces dismissal from the Navy and a maximum of 21 years in prison. Meanwhile, 15 of Billig...
...Schroeder's chest cavity and lungs and his skin was turning bluish-gray, a sign that not enough oxygenated blood was being circulated. They rushed him back to the operating room to find that he was hemorrhaging along the row of stitches connecting the artificial heart to his aorta. Doctors stanched the flow by applying pressure and clotting agents, but not before Schroeder had lost a massive amount of blood. By the next day, however, Lansing reported that the patient was back on track: his blood pressure was normal, his heartbeat steady and, he added, "where his skin...