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...coal slag left by the strippers for "surface miners," as the industry calls them). He's been broke more than once, drives a '68 Ford after going three years without one and wheezes like a train when he walks around because he has second-stage black lung. He lives in a place where school teachers quote from the National Enquirer and where the deputy sheriff pistol-whipped him once when he had that black kid visit. A place where in some countries they didn't even need draft boards during the war because young men were enlisting like Tennessee volunteers...
...ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, of as much as three-quarters of its work load, and 2) it had to remain in place in case it should be needed again. The system they devised is installed while the patient is still hooked up to the heart-lung machine, which takes over the function of these organs during open-heart surgery. First Litwak and his team insert two cannulae, or tubes, of flexible silicone into the patient's open chest. One tube is stitched into his left atrium, to draw off blood before it reaches the ventricle...
When the tune comes to take the patient off the conventional heart-lung machine and close his incision, the ends of the tubes are connected to a simple roller pump. The pump draws oxygenated blood from the left atrium and injects it forcibly into the aorta. The first time the system was used, the pump was doing 65% of the heart's work three hours after the operation. By the fifth hour, the heart had recovered sufficiently to perform 50% of its normal function. By the twelfth hour, the heart was carrying 78%, and by the 42nd hour...
...maturation of the human lung is not completed until the 26th week." Dr. Charles Hendricks, chairman of the obstetrics department at the University of North Carolina, said...
Ward said that slides of lung tissue from the fetus involved in the Edelin case displayed collapsed, partially-collapsed and expanded alveoli, or air spaces. He concluded that the state of the lung cells was due to respiration of air by the fetus before it died...