Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slung bales with stevedores, worked with men who toiled "like blind worms" in a basement bakery. "I saw that life was crisscrossed with theft," he wrote, "like an old coat with grey threads." Nothing worked right: even when he tried suicide, he succeeded only in shooting himself through the lung...
...Pediatrics, the seven medical researchers suggest that this same reflex may be what causes many premature and some full-term infants to shut down the flow of blood through their lungs. Some unborn infants may have had the reflex activated to compensate for an oxygen shortage caused by low blood pressure in the mother, or a constriction or partial separation of the umbilical cord. As a result, the babies are born with thousands of constricted arterioles that do not carry sufficient blood to the lung's air spaces where oxygen is picked up-a condition that leads...
...clamped shut well beyond the point where arteries branch off to supply the brain. The lower part of the body could be deprived of its blood supply long enough to let the surgeons cut out the diseased section and replace it with knit Dacron tubing. When the heart-lung machine became a practical adjunct in surgery, the horizon was suddenly widened. It became possible to operate anywhere along the aorta, while the machine supplied blood continuously to the brain...
...back to Tulane to the department of surgery under Dr. Alton Ochsner.* During the '30s, young Dr. DeBakey became an expert in blood transfusions and invented a roller pump to assist them. That pump, he thought wistfully, might some day be useful in some sort of heart-lung machine to sustain a patient during surgery. Twenty years later...
Just two weeks ago, the DeBakey team was well pleased with the results of a 40-hour test in a 150-lb. calf with a complete artificial heart. But the problems to be solved before routine use in man are still forbidding. The external heart-lung machine, which Dr. DeBakey has done so much to advance, can tide a patient over for only a few hours, during and after surgery. Dr. DeBakey wants an artificial heart element that can be installed while a patient is still on the operating table and left in place to tide him over the first...