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...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...
...letting it run thin over a flat surface. They wanted to avoid bubbling it because of the danger that some bubbles might be left in, and if these reached the brain, they could cause paralysis or death. Richard DeWall, a general practitioner from Anoka, Minn., went to work with Lillehei. Neophyte DeWall figured: Instead of dreading bubbles, why not put them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood into a plastic cylinder and deliberately bubbling, almost foaming it, with a stream...
...Bubble Problem. Despite this hopeful start the heart-lung machine was far from perfected. Minnesota's Clarence Walton Lillehei developed an ingenious temporary expedient: he used a donor, usually the father, for a child patient, connected their circulatory systems and thus made the donor's heart and lungs do the work of the patient's during the operation. The trouble was that this method risked two lives instead of one. Next, Lillehei & Co. used a freshly removed dog's lung, carefully cleaned and cleared of its own blood, for the same purpose. Two years ago, there...
...Surgeon Clarence Walton Lillehei. 35, University of Minnesota, and three colleagues, for cross-circulation and other techniques allowing safer surgery inside the heart (TIME, May 10, 1954 and April...
...Within a year, surgeons may be able to take a big step forward in repairing coronary arteries in victims who have already suffered an occlusion, and so guard them against further attacks. The University of Minnesota's Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, one of last week's Lasker Award winners (see above), told the American College of Surgeons that he had used the technique successfully on dogs, was about ready to try it on human patients. A section of coronary artery near the chest wall (in which most occlusions occur) is either opened, scraped clean and sewed up again...