Word: humana
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RECOVERING. William J. Schroeder, 53, artificial-heart recipient who at week's end had survived a record 133 days since the implant, 21 days longer than Barney Clark in 1983; in a special "transition apartment" to which he was moved last Saturday from Humana Hospital across the street, after making steady progress in recent weeks; in Louisville...
...three days in late March, not on Broadway or in London's West End, but in Louisville. Lately, that modest Kentucky city has become a part-time international theater capital, the site of perhaps the most important annual showcase for emerging American playwrights. In the nine years of the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville, many works have surfaced only to sink without trace; others have gone on to Broadway or Hollywood. Among them: Agnes of God, Extremities and The Octette Bridge Club. Two, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, have won the Pulitzer Prize...
...Utah in Salt Lake City, asking him to join the rescue effort. Olsen was a member of the team that first tested the Jarvik-7 heart, which sustained Barney Clark for 112 days and was, at week's end, still beating in William Schroeder and Murray Haydon at the Humana Hospital in Louisville. Although Olsen was well aware that famed Surgeon William DeVries is the only doctor authorized by the FDA to implant the Jarvik-7, he agreed to fly to Tucson with the device. Said he: "In critical situations like this, we have to respond...
...ARTIFICIAL HEART: ACT III A retired autoworker becomes the third recipient of the Jarvik-7 ONCE AGAIN THE SOUNDS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC FILLED THE OPERATING ROOM AT HUMANA HOSPITAL AUDUBON IN LOUISVILLE. AND ONCE AGAIN, AS THE OPERATION DREW TO A CLOSE, A STRANGE, PERCUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT AROSE FROM THE PATIENT'S CHEST: ch, ch, ch. FOR DR. WILLIAM DEVRIES, THE ONLY SURGEON IN THE WORLD AUTHORIZED TO IMPLANT THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, THESE WERE THE SOUNDS OF SUCCESS, AS REASSURING TO HIM AS A NEWBORN'S FIRST SQUEAL IS TO THE OBSTETRICIAN...
Unresolved questions about Schroeder's condition and what caused his strokes led some doctors to criticize Humana for rushing ahead with another implant. "They should have waited until this thing with Schroeder is over and looked closely at that before going forward," says Dr. Donald Hill, chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco's Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center. The strokes may have been caused by blood clots that formed somewhere in or near the artificial heart and then traveled to the brain. According to Cardiologist Fredarick Gobel of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the risk of such traveling clots, or emboli...