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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Things looked bad for Michael Fairman, 78, when he entered Georgia's Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital little more than a month ago. Within a few days he had a succession of heart seizures, and his condition got so bad that drugs helped only briefly. Last week Retired Businessman Fairman was at his son's home for New Year's, his heartbeat regular as clockwork. The remedy: Fairman's heart muscle had been wired directly to a tiny electric pacemaker, which he wore clipped to his belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wired for Living | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...Fairman is one of a small but growing group of U.S. heart patients who have been wired for living with a variety of pacemakers that are alike in principle but differ in detail. When a diseased heart stops or goes into fibrillation (a useless twitching and fluttering), it can often be restored to normal beat by a single electric shock. In more stubborn cases, small electrical impulses must be transmitted to the heart at a near normal pulse rate (60 to 72 per minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wired for Living | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...Fairman's case, the doctors did not dare open the chest to sew the electrode into the heart muscle because they doubted that the patient would survive surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wired for Living | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...they decided on the direct-puncture method. With only a local anesthetic, the job took ten minutes. Surgeon Erwin Jennings, 38, put the king-sized needle between Fairman's fourth and fifth ribs, aimed for the right ventricle. Jennings knew when he had hit it, because electrical impulses from Fairman's heart were transmitted through the wire. A fishhook type of barb on the end of the wire set it in the heart muscle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wired for Living | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...Fairman's pacemaker, about the size of a pocket transistor radio, weighed only 12 oz., was powered by a 9.4-volt battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wired for Living | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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