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...being asked to place the welfare of the next patient on a recipient list above the best interests of our own patient. The criteria for brain death can be too loosely applied these days, especially if there is a publicity campaign for the transplant of a vital organ, such as a pediatric organ. Richard G. Nilges, M.D. Chicago
...lost an 18-month-old boy in a drowning accident. If someone in that emergency room had only mentioned it, I would have jumped at the chance to donate an organ from my child...
Barney Clark's heart was the least of his worries last week, and that was a welcome change. The air-powered artificial heart permanently implanted in place of his own failing organ continued to work perfectly, just as it had from the time of the landmark operation in Salt Lake City on Dec. 1. The plastic pump clicked steadily at an unvarying 90 beats a minute as Clark made remarkable initial progress. And it pulsed without pause as Clark suffered, and survived, the first major setback in his recovery. The heart's unflagging performance led Dr. Chase Peterson...
...major complication occurred before dawn Tuesday as Clark lay in bed in the security-guarded third-floor intensive care unit. He was chatting with Dr. William DeVries, the surgeon who had implanted the mechanical organ. Asked Clark: "How am I doing?" Replied DeVries: "Just fine." The words were hardly spoken when Clark suddenly bejan to shudder uncontrollably. DeVries immediately placed Clark on a respirator and then injected him with the tranquilizer Valium and Dilantin, an anticonvulsant medication most commonly used to control epilepsy. During the next 2½ hours, the unconscious Clark suffered intermittent seizures, but the quivering was confined...
...historic surgery. Clark's wife Una Loy has been besieged with requests for exclusive rights to her husband's story. And Hollywood is about to release Threshold, a film about a surgeon who implants the world's first artificial heart. The designer of the mechanical organ in the movie? Jarvik, of course...