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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Source of Power. Standing by was Argentine-born Dr. Domingo Liotta of the Baylor College of Medicine, who has worked on artificial hearts for ten years. He now had ready a device that might keep Karp alive for a week or two. It is about the same size as a natural heart and is made of Silastic (a silicone plastic), with Dacron cuffs for attachment to the "distributor cap," or blood-vessel connections, in the remnant of Karp's own heart. It is self-contained except for one essential ingredient: a power system to deliver a steady, pumping beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: An Artificial Heart | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

With the artificial heart in place, Cooley led these tubes out through the cut in Karp's chest wall. The heart-lung machine was switched off and the console switched on. At a slow-normal heart rate, the pump alternately sent a volume of carbon dioxide under pressure into sacs in the artificial heart to force blood out of the ventricles to the lungs and the rest of the body, then relaxed this pressure to let the heart refill with blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: An Artificial Heart | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Karp soon regained consciousness and obeyed commands to move his hands and wiggle his toes. Next morning, with a breathing tube removed from his throat, he said a few words. His wife Shirley issued an appeal for a heart donor. At week's end, though no donor was yet in sight, Karp was holding up well and Surgeon Cooley was standing by, eager to remove the artificial device and replace it with a natural heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: An Artificial Heart | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Peggy Day, stole my poor heart Away By golly, what more can I say, Love to spend a night with Peggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Back to the Roots | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Died. W. Preston Battle, 60, Tennessee criminal-court judge who came to national prominence during the non-trial of James Earl Ray for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; of a heart attack; in Memphis. Battle accepted a deal under which Ray pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to 99 years in prison. In response to the outcry that followed, the judge argued that a trial would still have left the issue of conspiracy and other questions up in the air. "My conscience," he said, "told me that it better served the ends of justice to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 11, 1969 | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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