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...Christian Cabrol, 42, on the faculty of the University of Paris since age 26, and a specialist in artificial-heart research. An hour after the operation, Roblain's blood pressure dived to near zero. Emergency measures restored it to near normal, but Roblain remained in a coma until his death 51 hours after the operation. The autopsy showed that many formerly immobile blood clots, set free by the unwontedly strong pumping action of the new heart, had traveled to his lungs and blocked circulation there...
Medical regulations can also stand in the way of proper emergency treatment. When former Speaker of the House Joe Martin fell into a coma in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month, his doctor ordered an ambulance service to take him to a distant hospital, by passing one eight blocks away because the doctor was not affiliated there. Reported dead by the ambulance driver when he arrived, Martin, 83, was then taken to a third hospital, 15 miles away, for an autopsy. There he was officially pronounced dead on arrival. His life might have been saved had he been taken...
...Nobel prize in physics (for his theories on :he behavior of matter at low temperatures), "Dau" also helped his country develop nuclear weapons and contributed to the Soviet space program. In 1962, his car plowed into a truck, leaving him with such severe injuries that he was in a coma for 57 days and clinically dead on four occasions. Eventually he recovered enough to say, "I can talk to friends, but I do not have the courage to resume other activities...
...someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking lot from the pressure of a tumor upon her brain stem and lapsed into a fatal coma. But her father remembered, and her doctor called Maimonides, where she died...
...fell to Dr. Raymond Hoffenberg, the duty doctor at Groote Schuur at the time, to assess Haupt's condition and his chances of survival. Hoffenberg concluded that even if extreme measures were used to support breathing, the patient could not live long. He lay in a deepening coma. When Haupt's heart stopped, it was Dr. Hoffenberg who certified that he was legally dead. That came at 10:35 a.m. Tuesday. One group of surgeons began to remove Haupt's heart. In the operating room where Washkansky had received his transplant other surgeons had Patient Blaiberg almost...