Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes on damaged valves, often to correct defects inside the heart itself-are being duplicated a hundred times or more each week in a dozen or so U.S. medical centers where heart surgery has become an everyday affair. Many surgeons use heart-lung machines more or less similar to Bailey's. Some chill their patients to a body temperature 10° or more below normal. Others may plunge a needle into a patient's heart and deliberately stop its beat for as long as they need to work inside it. Generally, they cut, stitch, stretch, graft, rebuild...
Apparently immune to the emotional strain of the surgeon's task, Charles Bailey (married to a former nurse, and father of three) drives himself with awesome energy. He sometimes schedules as many as four open-heart operations in a week, takes two a week in his stride. Last week he and his colleagues (including two other surgeons) in the Bailey Thoracic Clinic performed no fewer than 15 heart operations, one with the heart-lung machine and one to close a septal defect. Within Charles Bailey's lifetime, surgery has changed from a relatively blunt and blind art, executed...
...left auricle, passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle. This most muscular of the heart's chambers sends it pulsing through the aortic valve into the aorta, the great artery trunk of which all other arteries are but branches. In the case of Surgeon Bailey's patient, this smooth mechanism was dangerously out of kilter...
...open the way for Bailey, assistants now passed tourniquets like cotton shoelaces around both great veins but did not yet draw them tight. Another tourniquet went around the right subclavian artery. With a needle holder like a long, slender pair of pliers, Bailey dipped his needle lightly in and out of the wall of the right auricle, drawing only a few drops of blood as he made two circular (purse-string) sutures. "Suction." An assistant dipped a glass-tipped rubber tube, attached to a vacuum pump, into the heart bed, drew out the spilled blood. With fine team coordination, Bailey...
...most heart operations these would have been enough. But in this case Surgeon Bailey wanted to keep up a gentle blood flow through the heart muscle while he operated. So he lifted the heart and turned it, exposing the coronary sinus through which most of the blood is drained from the heart. In a ring of stitches he made a cut and slipped in a fourth tube...