Word: oxygenator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...full-term pregnancy, a woman's hormone balance changes drastically to bring on labor. By a mechanism not yet understood in detail, these same changes, transmitted through the placenta, prepare the baby for the 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...
...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 it impossible for the lung cells to take in enough oxygen from inhaled air and remove the carbon dioxide coming from the blood...
...Extra Oxygen. Because the membrane looks glassy, this condition is called hyaline (from the Greek for glassy) membrane disease. But the pathologist who does a post-mortem examination on a baby is the only man who sees the glassy membrane. If the baby pulls through his first three or four days-usually aided by extra oxygen in his Isolette, and sometimes by a forced-breathing tube pushed down his windpipe through a cut in the neck-the membrane presumably disappears. Along with it go the respiratory difficulties. A baby who survives this crisis usually suffers no permanent damage, and develops...
...Patrick Kennedy's case, the extra oxygen in his Isolette was not enough. Dr. Drorbaugh called in an imaginative Harvard colleague, Pediatric Surgeon William F. Bernhard, who has pioneered in the use of a hyperbaric (high-pressure) chamber to drench a patient's system with oxygen (TIME, Feb. 15). Developed by the Navy for training submariners and decompressing divers, the 29-ft. by 8-ft. tank has three compartments, can hold as many as seven doctors, nurses and technicians as well as the patient...