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Strapped in the passenger seats were 72 dummies, including an infant-size one. Thirteen of the dummy passengers were fitted with sensors on the forehead, upper chest and pelvis to chart the effect of G forces on the bodies of crash victims...
...dying heart was an I ugly yellowish color when Dr. William DeVries finally cut it loose, tore it out of the Mercurochrome-stained chest cavity, and put it to one side. For the next three hours, while a nearby heart-lung bypass machine kept the unconscious patient alive?and while a tape in the background eerily played Mendelssohn and Vivaldi?DeVries' sure hands carefully stitched into place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats...
...when Schroeder was suddenly jolted into consciousness and, terrified by all the activity around him, tried to bolt from the bed. Doctors restrained him and increased his sedation. Five hours later they confronted a more serious problem: an alarming amount of fluid was building up in Schroeder's chest cavity and lungs and his skin was turning bluish-gray, a sign that not enough oxygenated blood was being circulated. They rushed him back to the operating room to find that he was hemorrhaging along the row of stitches connecting the artificial heart to his aorta. Doctors stanched the flow...
...placing of a baboon heart into the chest of little Baby Fae caused indignation in many quarters. For some, who might safely be called eccentric, the concern was animal rights. Pickets outside Loma Linda University Medical Center and elsewhere protested the use of baboons as organ factories. Dr. Leonard Bailey, the chief surgeon, was not impressed. "I am a member of the human species," he said. Human babies come first. It was unapologetic speciesism. He did not even have to resort to sociology, to the argument that in a society that eats beef, wears mink and has for some time...
...turns out that before placing a baboon heart into the chest of Baby Fae, doctors at Loma Linda had not sought a human heart for transplant. That fact betrays their primary aim: to advance a certain line of research. As much as her life became dear to them, Baby Fae was to be their means...