Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aortic valve replacement, with pump...
Miss I.J.-mitral valve replacement, with pump...
...Orleans before she went to the American Hospital in Paris. After Europe and marriage, it was back to Tulane to the department of surgery under Dr. Alton Ochsner.* During the '30s, young Dr. DeBakey became an expert in blood transfusions and invented a roller pump to assist them. That pump, he thought wistfully, might some day be useful in some sort of heart-lung machine to sustain a patient during surgery. Twenty years later...
...achieved, nature is likely to take over and get the rest of the circulatory system, including the three other chambers, to work effectively in unison. However, if both left and right ventricles have been severely damaged, they might be replaced by a two-in-one prosthesis with a single pump (see diagram, right...
Muscles or Batteries. All artificial hearts or half-hearts so far have relied on an external power source almost as bulky as a washing machine and infinitely more complex and delicate. The patient has to stay in bed, hooked up to this pulsating pump by an air hose passing through a hole in his chest. For a man with an artificial heart to get up from his bed and walk, let alone work, the power supply must be inside him. It may be electrical, depending on the long-lived, high-performance mercury batteries now being perfected for cardiac pacemakers (TIME...