Word: donors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgical team headed by Dr. John E. Connolly made an incision in the anesthetized patient's neck, to get at one of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain. First they drew out some blood, and added donor blood, to fill the pump-oxygenator ("heart-lung machine"). To this was attached a cooler that chilled the oxygenated blood. The surgeons led this chilled blood into the brain arteries. After about 15 minutes the brain temperature dropped to 68°. The doctors then stopped the flow and clamped all the brain arteries shut. The patient...
...bitter disappointments. The British royal family's ambitious Triumph of Caesar, which Charles I bought, is in such poor condition that it could not be sent at all. Spain was mysteriously uncooperative. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was prevented from lending its Madonna because of the donor's proviso, and the Museum of Art in Copenhagen decided to keep its Christ Seated on a Sarcophagus because it is so popular with tourists...
...publicity, Princeton Alumnus ('30) Shelby Collum Davis got all set to give his alma mater $3,800,000. A rich New York investment banker, Davis, 52, proposed to endow Old Nassau with two new history chairs in honor of his late father (Princeton '86). But when Donor Davis arrived at the bank with a platoon of lawyers to wrap up the gift for happy Princeton President Robert F. Goheen. his big gesture collapsed. The money was not his to give...
What made this otherwise routine case remarkable was that the donor was a dead boy of twelve, who had drowned in a nearby lake. After all attempts to revive him had failed, Pathologists Jack Kevorkian and Glenn W. Bylsma did an autopsy and withdrew two pints from a jugular vein. This was 2½ to 3 hours after death. To make sure that no germs had got into the blood (which would make it unsafe for transfusion), samples were incubated for two weeks. The woman patient had no unfavorable reactions to the transfusions of cadaver blood, is now well...
...cadaver blood offers several advantages. A living donor may lie about his health, especially about such a vital question as whether he has had hepatitis. Moreover, he cannot comfortably give more than a pint every two or three months. The corpse cannot lie, and the pathologists doing an autopsy can check every vital organ for disease-including the liver for evidence of hepatitis. They select as donors only the corpses of presumably healthy individuals who die suddenly, as in traffic accidents or from heart attacks. A cadaver yields far more blood than a walking donor: the Pontiac investigators have drawn...