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Trips, says DeBakey, are his major relaxation, and next month he takes off for Italy to receive the $16,000 St. Vincent Award of the Turin Academy of Medicine. By way of thanks, he will demonstrate some of his operations. There will also be trips to Brussels to see Marie Liliane, Princess de Réthy, for whose charitable organization DeBakey operates on many Belgian children, and to Paris to see the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Later come a week in Israel and a busman's holiday in Athens, with DeBakey demonstrating surgery while a guest of Queen...
...Once back in Houston, back to his wearing schedule, back to the demands of days filled with life-and-death decisions, DeBakey will return to the medico-political battles that he never shuns. A progressive Democrat and an acquaintance of President Johnson, DeBakey favors the use of federal funds for medicine. "The Federal Govern ment," he says, "has already put a lot of money into medicine, and every physician in the United States is better off for it-better off than he ever was before...
...models of assistant ventricles have been produced steadily, in improved shapes and for both ventricles (see diagram, left). It is only seven weeks ago that the DeBakey team ran what it thought was a highly successful experiment with a unit that replaced both of a dog's ventricles. Yet progress in the field is so fast that within four days the researchers were dismissing their test as old hat. They were getting as good or better results with a single ballooning sac inserted in the left ventricle alone. It seems, says Dr. Hall, that this may be enough...
Better yet, DeBakey and his co-workers believe, it may eventually be possible to harness one of the body's powerful muscles, perhaps in the shoulder girdle, to such a pacemaker. Then, when the little device gives its electrical command, the muscle will contract, and in the process it will squeeze an implanted bellows, which in its turn will squeeze the left ventricle or both (see diagram, center). Like all gadgeteers, the heart researchers also dream of using atomic power...
Just two weeks ago, the DeBakey team was well pleased with the results of a 40-hour test in a 150-lb. calf with a complete artificial heart. But the problems to be solved before routine use in man are still forbidding. The external heart-lung machine, which Dr. DeBakey has done so much to advance, can tide a patient over for only a few hours, during and after surgery. Dr. DeBakey wants an artificial heart element that can be installed while a patient is still on the operating table and left in place to tide him over the first...