Word: lillehei
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Conquest (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). For those who missed it last year, a rerun of Open Heart Surgery, the first network coverage of a major operation. Minnesota's Dr. C. Walton Lillehei puts his heart-lung machine to work to save the life of a five-year-old girl...
...limbs. Hence the grim jest: "They put the specimen to bed and sent the patient to the laboratory." For some cancers there is no doubt that "radical" (meaning drastic and extensive) surgery has pro longed useful life. (The University of Minnesota's famed Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei's most productive years have followed removal of a lymphosarcoma and much related tissue...
...wheeled into the operating room with a toy lion perched on her chest. Dr. Richard DeWall was on the scene to explain how his heart-lung pump oxygenator would take the place of Debbie's heart and lungs during the surgery. Famed Heart Surgeon Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a pioneer in such operations, went to work on Debbie's exposed heart as a narrator filled in crisp details: "Notice the oversized aorta and beneath it the narrow, underdeveloped pulmonary artery. Tapes are prepared for shutting off the main vessels which carry the blood to Debbie's heart...
...been opened to close holes between its chambers, with aid from a heart-lung machine, it can be helped to settle down to a steady, normal rhythm by leaving anelectrode attached to the heart muscle itself for days or even weeks. So reported Minneapolis' famed Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei to the New York Heart Association last week...
...Complete heart block," a disruption of the electrical impulses flowing over the heart, is a danger for 10% to 25% of patients, although the operation itself may have been successful. Pacemakers working through electrodes attached outside the body require too strong a current for continuous use. Better, said Dr. Lillehei, to attach one electrode to the heart at the time of operation, lead the wire out through the chest incision (the second electrode can still be placed just under the skin), and keep the pacemaker working until the danger is past. The wire then comes out as easily...