Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pump did what we thought it would do," said Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey. "The patient's heart was already showing improvement. With this important encouragement, we look forward to using the device again in the near future...
...Patient DeRudder's condition so grave as to justify the admitted risk? It took Dr. DeBakey, with three assisting surgeons, until 10:14 to decide that the answer was yes. Swiftly Dr. DeBakey took one of the two plastic tubes attached to the pump device and stitched it into the hole in the left auricle. Then he took the other tube and sewed it into a hole in the side of the aorta. At DeRudder's chest wall, the round plaque holding these tubes, together with smaller tubes for priming and flushing with saline solution, was attached...
Pull & Push. Oxygenated blood from DeRudder's lungs then flowed normally into his left auricle. From there, up to 80% of it was drawn by suction into the pump chamber, held for an instant by a check valve, then pushed by the pressure of the pump's downstroke into the aorta, which supplies all the body's arteries. The rest took nature's course. It passed through the newly implanted artificial mitral valve into the ventricle, which continued to beat, and out into the aorta...
...would be spared much of the strain under which it had labored. While it would not literally rest, it would have a chance to regain muscle tone and strength. That might take as long as three weeks. If everything worked out as hoped, Dr. DeBakey planned to detach the pump from his patient's chest but leave the ¾-in plastic tubes implanted. They might come in handy later. At week's end DeRudder's condition had the doctors baffled. The pump was working extremely well, but he remained in a coma. If he had suffered brain...
...communications, ports and harbors. Specifically, the Japanese said they would increase what they loosely call economic aid-including war reparations, long-term credits, private investments and government grants-from $350 million in fiscal 1965 to $870 million in fiscal 1968, mostly for Southeast Asia. Naturally, Japan hopes that such pump-priming will expand its private business in the region, which is the second-largest market (after the U.S.) for Japanese goods and services...