Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bailey's face (on your cover), with its sternly chiseled features and cold, probing eyes, is a haunting one. Here is a man who has looked-literally-into other men's hearts; yet it is hard to conceive of his yielding to the more tender emotions, such as love and compassion, commonly supposed to spring from that most mysterious of human organs. Why don't you print a picture of him in a business suit, or doesn't he ever wear anything but his surgeon's trappings...
...girl with a big hole between her auricles received standard anesthesia, was then put in a 6-ft. kitchen-type freezer until her body temperature dropped to 75°. The patient's circulation was slowed at first, then stopped by clamps. Bailey slit open the auricle, put a patch over the hole and closed the heart, with two minutes to spare against his eight-minute limit. But because of air trapped in the heart, the patient died. History's first truly open-heart operation in a dry field looked like a failure...
Only four days later Floyd John Lewis, one of the leaders in a team of brilliant young heart specialists assembled by Surgery Professor Owen H. Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota, did a virtually identical operation on a five-year-old girl, and she survived. Within ten days Bailey repeated the operation with complete success...
...death. What was still needed was a pumping device to take over the functions of both heart and lungs for as long as necessary to operate. At Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, Surgeon John Heysham Gibbon Jr. had been working on such a device for almost 20 years. Bailey himself was experimenting with pumps when he hit on the chilling technique. In October 1952 Detroit's Dodrill announced that he had used a pump developed in cooperation with General Motors research engineers to bypass the left side of the heart. In May 1953 Gibbon announced the breakthrough...
Cecelia Bavolek, 18. a freshman at Pennsylvania's Wilkes College, had a hole as big as a half dollar between her auricles-a condition similar to that of Bailey's first hypothermia patient, and one that could not be corrected by his closed operation. Surgeon Gibbon and his Jefferson team piped Cecelia's blood to a "lung" made of stainless-steel screens set in an oxygen-filled chamber and pumped it back and forth for a total of 26 minutes. Cecelia Bavolek recovered quickly. It was the first time in history that man's artifice...