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...almost four hours after the first incision, history's first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied. The heart leaped at the shock and began a swift beat. Dr. Barnard's heart leaped too. Through his mask, he exclaimed unprofessionally but pardonably, "Christ, it's going to work!" Work...
...another five minutes. This time, when it was stopped, the heart did not falter. It could do the work. The surgeons closed Washkansky's chest. The operation, "from skin to skin," had taken 4¾ hours. It was 7 a.m. "I need a cup of tea," said Dr. Barnard...
...further guard against infection, the doctors dosed him with antibiotics. His donated heart, healthy and compact, jumped around somewhat uneasily in the cavity left by his own enlarged heart, but this space would soon shrink naturally. The heart gradually slowed its beat to 100 per minute. (Surgeon Barnard's had been a frenetic 140 when he finished the operation...
Double Chill. While South Africa was proudly rejoicing, the U.S. transplant team was just beginning. In wintry Brooklyn, Dr. Kantrowitz had put his team on full alert at about the same time as Dr. Barnard was alerting his. His 19-day-old patient, the intended heart-transplant recipient, had been born blue. The child was a victim of severe tricuspid atresia-constriction, to the point of almost total closure, of the three-leafed valve that normally regulates the flow of blood from the right auricle to the right ventricle on its way to the lungs for oxygenation. There...
...Barnard was talking of sending Washkansky home in a couple of weeks. In this he could have been overoptimistic. The possibility remained that he might be as cruelly disappointed as Dr. Kantrowitz by the sudden failure of the transplant. At best, there could be endless complications. Yet the mere performance of the operation set a milestone along the endless road of man's struggle against disability...