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...everybody in this room, starting with the big guy," he said, I pointing at the 6-ft., 5-in. DeVries. In the view of Schroeder's wife of 32 years, Margaret, her husband appeared to be "more comfortable" last week "than he had been for months before the implant." She told a news conference, "Once we went down toward that operating room, I was relieved because I felt that my husband was fading away from me, and now I feel I have him back again and that I have another chance...
...stunning improvement over Schroeder's condition before surgery. According to Humana doctors, Schroeder has truly cheated death. Without the Sunday-morning implant, he "would not have survived the weekend," says DeVries. "Saturday night, I was very worried...
...control," noted Dr. J.P. Salb, the Schroeders' family physician. It was Salb, along with Schroeder's cardiologist, Dr. Phillip Dawkins, who suggested that he look into the possibility of an artificial heart. By chance, DeVries, the only surgeon authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to implant the device, had moved this summer from the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City to Humana Hospital Audubon, about 70 miles east of Jasper...
...field of medicine. Its Heart Institute had been open less than a year when the company decided in June to work on the mechanical heart. Institute Director Allan Lansing, an open-heart surgeon, had told Jones that Dr. William DeVries, who performed the first permanent artificial-heart implant, on Barney Clark at the University of Utah in 1982, might be willing to come to Louisville to pursue his research...
Humana prepared for its first artificial implant with a promotion campaign as elaborate as one that General Motors might use for launching a new model. Before the Schroeder operation, Humana public relations specialists consulted with officials at the University of Utah on the press interest that might be expected. The company rented space for a press headquarters in the Commonwealth Convention Center in downtown Louisville and produced seven informational videotapes about the operation...