Word: pericardium
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Hospital surgeons cut through George's fourth and fifth ribs and gingerly pulled out the pencil. It had been driven in four inches, penetrating the pericardium (outer sac of the heart). George's coolness, they allowed, had certainly saved his life. What George wanted to know was: Could he pitch for the baseball team, come spring? Doctors thought he probably could...
...third, fourth, fifth and sixth ribs. Pushing back the ribs he saw the chest cavity flooded with blood, drained it out with a suction machine like a little hand vacuum cleaner. Then he picked up Manning's heart and held it faintly fluttering in his hand. The pericardium (membrane enveloping the heart) was bruised and a large pool of blood was trapped in the heart, impeding its motion. Dr. Nicoll slit through the pericardium, and the blood oozed out. At once William Manning's heart leaped in Dr. Nicoll's hand "like a fish out of water...
...immediately replaced and the pericardium stitched with catgut. A small opening was left in which Dr. Nicoll inserted a rubber drainage tube. Then he tucked the ribs back in place with 50 stitches. A week later, after several blood transfusions, the drainage tube was removed. For five weeks Patrolman Manning remained in an oxygen tent, and for several months he was given massages to stimulate his heart muscles. Last week Manhattan papers reported that Patrolman Manning was well enough to attend Magistrate's Court for the hearing of his case...
...angry, and in the resultant brawl a giant Negro called "Smiling Joe" Thomas was stabbed in the heart. Smiling Joe, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, was rushed to a hospital at Kearny, N. J., where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care to let no blood rush out, quickly closed the heart wound with three stitches...
Last week Dr. Beck promised to cut down his 50% operative mortality. He has also developed roundabout circulation in a man's heart by putting some pulverized beef bone in the pericardial cavity. This irritated the pericardium, caused it to cleave to the heart muscle. The blood vessels, which are numerous in the peri cardium, then sent branches into the heart, thus making a graft of the pectoral muscle unnecessary...