Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nervous until I started to scrub and had my work to do, and then I hadn't time to be nervous," says Peggy. The big moment that she remembers most clearly was seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital...
Should a person decide to donate his organs to a hospital or medical school, he and his physician will complete the five forms. They include his statement of donation; the physican's statement ("... the donor was of sound mind and not under the influence of narcotic drugs..."); a statement by next of kin; provisions for burial; and a reference to the hospital or medical school receiving the organs. The donor must be twenty...
...highest trust obligation to the public purposes for which the foundation is formed. In California, that means you can't have your cake and eat it too. It means that assets placed in a foundation must be used for public purposes and not for the benefit of the donor or founder. It means that the ABC plan can't work. It means that the individual who operates his foundation as taught by ABC faces the loss of both his foundation and his assets...
Helen Krouch weighed a scant 100 Ibs., and her heart was proportionately small. Louis Block weighed 170. Besides the difficulty of tailoring the transplant to fit, Surgeon Kantrowitz saw another problem: the donor heart almost certainly could not pump enough blood at first, although it might later increase its capacity. He decided to transplant the heart but to assist it for a while with a helium balloon pump inserted through a thigh artery and placed in Block's aorta. This device (TIME, Aug. 25) has worked well for five patients in shock and near death after heart attacks...
...this case also, the eventual donor had no thought of her own death when she talked to her husband about heart transplants. Virginia Mae White, 43, had never had a serious illness as she celebrated the 22nd anniversary of her wedding to Charles W. ("Bill") White. Next evening, she had a massive brain hemorrhage and was taken to El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, only eight miles from Stanford. When her doctors said there was no hope, White asked whether there was any type of research going on relating to what had happened to his wife-"something where she could...