Word: hearted
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Some of DeBakey's associates implied that the artificial heart used by Cooley and Liotta had been developed almost entirely by DeBakey's federally funded research team. "It's the same damn heart we've been working on for years," said one of them. Though Cooley is not a member of the team, Liotta is. In this case, DeBakey's permission-and that of a special medical review board-should have been received before the heart was used...
DeBakey, 60, a pioneering open-heart surgeon, is president of the Baylor University College of Medicine; Cooley, 49, is a member of the faculty. The two Texans have scrupulously avoided public battles, but their subordinates have been less inhibited. Those loyal to DeBakey, for example, have fostered the impression that Cooley has performed some of his 20 heart transplants prematurely. Cooley's lieutenants, on the other hand, dismiss this as professional jealousy; they point out that Cooley performed his first transplant three months before DeBakey did. DeBakey's associates also expressed concern about the purely experimental status...
Experience Needed. Cooley, for his part, remained unruffled. He claimed that the artificial heart used in Karp was developed entirely with funds from the Texas Heart Institute and other private sources. But he was cautious in appraising its usefulness. "We have demonstrated that a mechanical device will support the body," he declared after Karp's death. "But we've got to get more experience. It can only be used in a person who is at the brink of death or in a person who has already died, as, in effect, Mr. Karp had. He was completely dependent...
Originally, Cooley had estimated that the patient might be able to live as long as a month with the artificial heart. When the question was repeated later in the week, however, his reply was more circumspect. "I don't know," he said. "This is a human being we're working with." As a result of the furor provoked by the Karp case and the still unresolved questions of procedure and ethics, heart surgeons are likely to be extremely hesitant before they try to duplicate Dr. Cooley's desperate...
...safer than the routine ones, because they are used by highly trained physicians and nurses who are on the alert for danger signals. Even so, says Walter, such vigilance may not always be sufficient. In a situation involving a patient who has an electrical lead going into his heart or a major artery, for example, a minute accidental current leakage, ordinarily considered negligible, may stop a patient's heart. Perhaps more dangerous in the long run are the heating pads, blankets, bed controls and reading lamps that everyone takes for granted. If current from any of these ungrounded appliances...