Word: pumpings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...permeable cellulose. This is immersed in a swirling bath, containing bloodlike salts and acids, known as dialysate. The blood's impurities (but not the blood cells or vital proteins) pass into the bath through minute porosities in the cellulose, and then go down the drain. Some models require a pump to circulate and renew the bath water, while others rely on gravity or faucet pressure. Some depend on arterial pressure to get the blood through the machine and back into the patient; some use a pump...
Seeking a cheaper kidney machine, the inventive Kolff has used standard washing machines to slosh the outer bath, sausage casing for the blood coil, and 46-oz. fruit-juice cans as disposable blood-coil holders. Now he has devised a way to run the machines without a blood pump. Kolff's machines are in the $400 to $700 price range. Another excellent model, now being used at home by about 150 patients, was developed by the University of Maryland's Dr. William G. Esmond. It costs about $600, a far cry from the $7,000 price tag for some standard...
...assistant professor at Downstate College of Medicine as well as head of his hospital's mechanical-kidney unit, began his economical setup with Army-surplus water tanks for mixing, storing and delivering dialysate fluid to his eleven artificial kidneys. He uses gravity feed to save pump costs. He has fluid strengths tested manually instead of by sophisticated and expensive gadgets. How safe is this penny-pinching corner-cutting? Losing one patient a year, the unit has a 3% mortality rate, against a national average of 20% reported...
...kept Parnelli Jones from winning the 500-mile race in Granatelli's revolutionary, turbine-powered STP Special. Last week, in an uncannily similar disaster, Joe Leonard was whooshing toward apparently certain victory in a new STP turbine when-just 22 miles from the finish-a $12 fuel-pump shaft sheared off and the engine died. Granatelli could only watch helplessly as New Mexico's Bobby Unser, driving a piston-engined Eagle, swept triumphantly past the checkered flag...
...prose and the intense physicality of his words. Death imagery crackles through these pages like winter wind through a cornfield, yet the characters have exceptional vitality. A youth watches with unblinking fascination as a farmhand tries to knead life back into a child who is "froze like a pump." A housewife sees beauty in the configurations of dead roaches. In the title story, an intricate prose poem about a small Midwestern town, windows are graves, asphalt crumbles, maples are decapitated to make way for electric wires ("voices in thin strips"), and the narrator sifts the ashes of a cooled love...