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...word of the deaths was passed to the "decedent affairs desk" at the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda. Md.. which in turn called Commander George W. Hyatt, director of the hospital's tissue bank. Dr. Hyatt, an orthopedic surgeon, seized the chance to turn a loss of life into a lifesaving procedure. He arranged for the bodies to be moved 20 miles to the hospital's morgue, then turned to "the toughest part of my job": telephoning the two families to notify them of the deaths. Dr. Hyatt waited an hour or so for the first shock...
...scrubdown in the tissue bank's underground operating room was even more thorough than is needed for live surgery, for contamination of tissue can make the bank's operations worse than useless. At 2:05 p.m., Dr. Hyatt, two assistant surgeons, a nurse and five specially trained medical corpsmen began excision of parts of the first body. The surgeons removed long sections of both ascending and descending aorta. With a dermatome they took skin, only 15/1,000 of an inch thick, from the trunk and legs. Next came fascia (connective tissue) from the thighs. They also took pelvic...
Material from the two bodies, says Dr. Hyatt, will help about 75 patients in need of grafts to replace or support their own tissues during the body's self-repair process. While the new material was being freeze-dried (by a half-dozen methods), an attendant made fresh entries on a wall board in Dr. Hyatt's office, to expand the bank's current inventory to: 33 cortical strips, eight infant long bones, four straight pieces of chest artery, 39,354 sq. cm. of skin. The tissue bank will not take material from victims of infectious disease...
...tissue bank, only one of its kind in the country. Designed and supervised by Dr. (Lieut. Commander) George W. Hyatt, it has already supplied needed parts of human anatomy, whether soft tissue or bone, for more than 700 patients. If a Bethesda surgeon wants a piece of bone, skin, artery, fascia (muscle sheathing) or dura (brain covering), he can find it in bottles neatly stacked on the first floor. For a long time, the great problem was to keep the tissues fresh. Ordinary refrigeration and thawing made them useless. The Navy got around this by ultra-rapid freeze-drying...
Married. Eileen Jean ("Walda") Winchell, 28, onetime Broadway actress (Dark of the Moon), daughter of Columnist Walter Winchell; and California Industrialist Hyatt von Dehn, 46; she for the second time, he for the third (his second: Singer-Actress Ginny Simms); in Beverly Hills, Calif...