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...Charles Bailey himself launched the most direct assault imaginable on coronary disease-reaming out the diseased part of the arteries (TIME, Nov. 26). The first two patients, on whom Bailey based his preliminary announcement, have both done well. One, a man of 52, has gone back to work. But Bailey was not content with the instrument that he used (it had a rigid steel shank), so he soon designed another. The result is a piece of piano wire with a loop handle at one end, a tiny ball at the other, and 1½ in. from the tip, a thicker...
Matter of Time. For all his firsts in heart surgery, Charles Bailey is the first to admit the difficulty of proving the results of coronary operations. He is impatiently awaiting delivery of an X-ray machine which will take pictures at 1/500 sec. and, with radiopaque dyes, will show precisely where and how extensively a coronary artery is blocked-or unblocked. This will make it possible to judge with far more accuracy how much good an operation has done. Thanks to the prospects of such machines, surgeons who have so far held aloof from coronary disease are now showing interest...
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...