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Dr. Robert S. Litwak and his colleagues at Mount Sinai designed the new system to meet two requirements: 1) it had to relieve the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, of as much as three-quarters of its work load, and 2) it had to remain in...
When the tune comes to take the patient off the conventional heart-lung machine and close his incision, the ends of the tubes are connected to a simple roller pump. The pump draws oxygenated blood from the left atrium and injects it forcibly into the aorta. The first time the...
He said that from the point of incision of the uterus to removal of the fetus, the operation took "a couple of minutes."
The prosecution alleges that the fetus was between 24 and 28 weeks old, and that the type of abortion Edelin was performing--by incision through the abdomen--should have resulted in the delivery of a baby boy.
Surgery, Dr. John C. Lungren explained, creates "raw surfaces" along the the incision lines-points where postoperative bleeding can occur. They can contribute to what Lungren called a "generalized ooze" that does not gush blood and often cannot be detected until changes in pulse and blood pressure signal trouble.