Word: incisional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were many complications. Kasperak had worked in a fume-filled steel mill, had been a heavy smoker and, as a result, his lungs were leathery. They could not exchange enough oxygen to keep him going. So an incision was made in his throat and a tube inserted to supply...
Universal Donor. Though Denise Darvall's heart had stopped beating and she was dead, her heart could not be allowed to degenerate. Irreparable cell damage begins at the temperature of a naturally cooling cadaver in 30 minutes. It can be postponed for two to three hours by cooling. The...
Now, almost four hours after the first incision, history's first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied...
In a seventh-floor room in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, a 49-year-old man with incurable brain disease lay in a coma one day last week. Alerted that death was hours away, a team of 16 doctors who had been standing by for 48 hours...
Strapped to the runner of a helicopter, Che's body was then flown to Valle Grande, a dirt-poor, two-centuryold town of 7,000 people set in rolling hills some 3,000 ft. high. At the airport, it was loaded into a truck and whisked down the narrow...