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Allan Lansing, director of Humana Heart Institute International in Louisville, expects to begin further tests soon on the Hemopump, which was approved for human trials by the Food and Drug Administration last March. "I'm impressed," says Lansing. "If this pump does work, it could be of enormous benefit to many patients." Eventually, he says, it could be available in coronary-care units and emergency rooms to treat heart attacks immediately after they occur. "It won't replace anything that is now available," says Heart Surgeon Jack Copeland of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson...
Shortly after he received an artificial heart in 1984, William Schroeder was euphoric. "I feel like I've got ten years left right now," he exulted. But that was not to be. Last week at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, the former Government quality-control inspector, who was 54, suffered a massive stroke. Tuesday morning he was discovered unconscious with labored breathing; 30 hours later his breathing had stopped for good. With Schroeder's family gathered round, doctors pronounced him dead, but there remained a last grim task: to turn off the pneumatically driven device that had kept him alive...
...Humana Center in Louisville: Michael Graves, Piper Auditorium, Harvard School of Design, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge...
Both Cassileth and Angell saw another unfortunate implication in the notion of conquering disease by positive thinking. "If the cancer spreads, despite every attempt to think positively," Angell asked, "is the patient at fault?" She pointed to remarks made by Humana Institute's Dr. Allan Lansing, who at a press conference expressed concern that Artificial Heart Recipient William Schroeder did not have the right attitude after his first stroke. The implication, she said, is that Schroeder was in some way responsible for his condition. At a time when patients are already suffering from disease, Angell concluded, "they should...
...over the prospect of receiving an artificial heart. "If you get it in right," Jack Burcham, a former railroad engineer, promised Implant Surgeon William DeVries, "I'll make it work." Getting it in right proved to be just the first of many difficulties faced by doctor and patient at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville. The cheerful father of four from Leroy, Ill., never really recovered from the initial surgery. Last week, just ten days after becoming the fifth and oldest human recipient of the Jarvik-7 heart, Burcham died, at 62. As DeVries later admitted, it was not clear whether...