Word: multiorgan
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...heart for his patient. The second attempt to install a ventricle worked, and Barney Clark made history by becoming the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. The operation that gave Clark a precarious hold on life (he was to die 112 days later of multiorgan system failure) was videotaped as part of a documentary on his struggle to survive. Now a complex legal and ethical debate is going on over the question of whether or not that tape should be shown. At issue, in essence, is who owns the legacy of Barney Clark...
Last week the long struggle ended. Beset by kidney failure, chronic respiratory problems, inflammation of the colon and loss of blood pressure, Clark, 62, died quietly. The official cause of death: "circulatory collapse due to multiorgan system failure." The heart itself was in good working order at his death, having beat steadfastly nearly 13 million times. In the final days, Clark's doctors debated what steps they would take to preserve the patient's life: whether, for instance, it would be medically and ethically appropriate to try kidney dialysis on someone so ill. In the end, however, Clark...
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