Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first word to reporters was that mother and child were doing nicely. But in the operating room, doctors knew differently. The President's son was suffering from hyaline membrane disease, a lung ailment common, and often fatal, to premature babies. Within minutes after the birth, the doctors called for Father John Cahill, an Air Force chaplain, who baptized the baby Patrick Bouvier Kennedy. Then began a desperate fight to save the infant's life...
...Children's Medical Center, doctors suggested a radical move: put Patrick in a huge hyperbaric pressure chamber that would force oxygen into his lungs (see MEDICINE). This hyperbaric chamber had been used in 28 open-heart surgery cases during the past 17 months-but never for a lung ailment. The President agreed...
...superhuman feat of changing from an aquatic parasite, drawing oxygen from its mother's blood, to an in dependent air breather. If pregnancy is too short, these hormone triggers work weakly or not at all. The preemie delivered by caesarean has an especially urgent need for efficient lung-clearing reflexes, be cause the fluid in his lungs at the moment of delivery is al most certain to be contaminated with blood from the operation...
Ironically, as long as the baby lived, there was no way for even the most expert pediatricians to be sure what was happening in his lungs. They could tell whether the lungs were sufficiently inflated. (They were.) If there was a rattle in the stethoscope, they could be pretty certain of pneumonia. (There was none.) But the most likely and most life-threatening development was one that the doctors could not see and had no way of detecting for certain in a living patient: the development of a mysterious membrane around the inside walls of the lungs, which makes...
...died had been on a heart-lung machine and his temperature cooled to 68° F., which gave his organs a better chance of surviving after circulation was stopped. Thanks to a foresighted arrangement with the heart patient's family, surgeons were able to remove the left kidney from the cadaver within 40 minutes after death. Meanwhile, the transplant team under Physician John P. Merrill and Surgeon Joseph E. Murray was getting the accountant ready to receive the graft. Within another hour they had implanted it in the accountant's right flank, and a total of 125 minutes...