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...pacemaker, a miniature machine that controls the heart rate by sending out regular electrical impulses, has meant new life for some 70,000 U.S. cardiac patients. But it has also meant a biennial trip to the hospital for surgery. Reason: the conventional pacemaker, implanted under the skin of the chest, must have its battery changed about every two years. For 16 cardiac patients last week, that recurrent surgery became a thing of the past. In operations performed at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md., nuclear-powered pacemakers were installed...
...humans. But he does believe that the power to regenerate tissue could prove important in other medical applications. Techniques that could grow new tissue on a broken bone might ultimately replace joint cartilage destroyed by arthritis. They might even help patients with hearts damaged by disease to grow new cardiac tissue...
Died. John H. Gibbon Jr., 69, the cardiac surgeon who developed the first heart-lung machine successfully used on a human patient; of an apparent heart attack while playing tennis; in Philadelphia. Gibbon spent 19 years perfecting the device that could take over heart and lung functions during heart surgery. In its first application to a human in 1953, the device worked perfectly for 26 minutes, permitting Gibbon to repair a hole in the heart of an 18-year-old girl. She survived, and Gibbon's achievement opened the way to a variety of heart operations, including transplants...
Like any good skipper, Bruynzeel prepared his 53-ft. ketch Stormy for every contingency. Unable to pack an intensive-cardiac-care unit on board because it was too heavy, he did the next best thing by adding Nurse Diana Goodliffe, 33, to the crew. A member of Dr. Christiaan Barnard's heart-transplant team, she came prepared with equipment like an oscilloscope to check the pattern of Bruynzeel's heartbeat and the culinary qualifications to serve as ship's cook. Once at sea, says Bruynzeel, "Diana never forgot to give me my pills six times...
There was no excess of cholesterol or other fatty substances in the blood. "We tried to keep him on a low-intake diet," Burkley says, "but he wasn't starved on any strict regimen as a true cardiac patient would be, because he was a normal individual during those years." He got some exercise-swimming, walking, an occasional gym workout-and he usually took an afternoon nap. His blood pressure was normal...