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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...
...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...
Finger & Knife. Philadelphia's Bailey was impatient to touch down. He had strong personal reasons: as a boy of twelve, he had seen his father, a broker, die at 42 of a lung hemorrhage, the direct result of heart disease. After what Bailey considers less than average preparation for such a post (New Jersey's Rutgers University, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, a year's internship, four years of general practice in Lakewood, N.J., two years of intensive lung surgery), he was placed in charge of chest surgery at Hahnemann in 1940. He is now professor...
After working on dogs for five years, duplicating earlier abortive mitral-valve operations, Bailey thought he knew what had been wrong with them-faulty approach and damaging the leaflets of the valves. He worked out his own approach, first put his finger inside a human heart to open a scarred mitral valve in June 1945. Through an accident (no fault of Bailey's) the patient bled to death. Misfortune beset him in three other cases. Not until June 10, 1948 did he have a "good risk" patient at Philadelphia's Episcopal Hospital. Mrs. Melville Ward, 24, of East...
...Doughnut Method. The operation (which, with variations, had been duplicated almost simultaneously in Boston and in Britain) "suddenly became too popular and was being done in practically every country hospital," says Bailey. In 1953 Detroit Surgeon Forest Dewey Dodrill convinced Bailey that his operation was still not good enough, and Bailey worked out improvements that are now widely used...