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...chamber squeezed the blood out of the Silastic core into the aorta. In the process, it pushed the blood along with much more force than Mrs. Ceraso's enlarged and enfeebled left ventricle could have mustered unaided. To reduce the risk of blood damage or other complications, Dr. Kantrowitz and the hovering cardiologists did not leave the pump running continuously but switched it off every couple of hours...
...equipment is working perfectly," said Dr. Kantrowitz, "and there is evidence that the heart has been helped enormously." Then he added, with due medical caution: "Our definition of success is when Mrs. Ceraso can go home again"-with the artificial half heart still in her chest, disconnected, but with a portable air pump for use as needed...
...different design and materials had been first tried in man 2½ years ago, when Dr. DeBakey used it to keep a moribund patient alive for 3½ days (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963), and for only the second time last February, when Brooklyn's Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz used a comparable device for 24 hours...
...operation at Maimonides Hospital that was not publicized. "We chose to study our attempt carefully and analyze the results," said Dr. Kantrowitz...
...research is expensive and may become more so, but Avco is backed by a consortium of eleven powerful electric companies that sense a power revolution not many years away. If a full-scale generator works out as well as Dr. Kantrowitz expects, it will turn the chemical energy of coal or oil into electrical energy with 56% efficiency. The most efficient modern steam-driven generators do not get better than...