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...Donald Olsen of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, asking him to join the rescue effort. Olsen was a member of the team that first tested the Jarvik-7 heart, which sustained Barney Clark for 112 days and was, at week's end, still beating in William Schroeder and Murray Haydon at the Humana Hospital in Louisville. Although Olsen was well aware that famed Surgeon William DeVries is the only doctor authorized by the FDA to implant the Jarvik-7, he agreed to fly to Tucson with the device. Said he: "In critical situations like this, we have...
...press conference early last week, Dr. Allan Lansing, spokesman for the medical team, expressed doubts about Schroeder's "quality of life," and whether he would ever be able to leave the hospital. He described Schroeder, 53, as weak, unable to speak in complete sentences, withdrawn and confused. "If he doesn't get stronger and he remains discouraged," said Lansing, "that could be a threat to his life...
...remarks upset Schroeder's wife Margaret and enraged DeVries. The next day officials gave a rosier account of Schroeder's condition. They announced that his fever was subsiding and that he might be allowed to attend his son's wedding on March 16. They released photos showing Schroeder waving to Haydon. Schroeder was also treated to his first trip outdoors: a brief excursion to the hospital parking lot, from which he could glimpse the "transitional care" apartment building where he will live if he leaves the hospital. Two children rushed over to greet the famous patient. "It was like shaking...
Unresolved questions about Schroeder's condition and what caused his strokes led some doctors to criticize Humana for rushing ahead with another implant. "They should have waited until this thing with Schroeder is over and looked closely at that before going forward," says Dr. Donald Hill, chief of cardiovascular surgery at San Francisco's Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center. The strokes may have been caused by blood clots that formed somewhere in or near the artificial heart and then traveled to the brain. According to Cardiologist Fredarick Gobel of the Minneapolis Heart Institute, the risk of such traveling clots, or emboli...
...week progressed, Schroeder, as if inspired by the new kid on the ward, seemed to improve dramatically. According to Lansing, he was initiating conversation, pronouncing difficult words like Mississippi, counting correctly and, perhaps most important, "laughing more." New dentures apparently eased things for him. Though prospects for a complete recovery of speech and mental functions remained slight, doctors were once again talking about transferring Schroeder to the transitional home, perhaps as early as this week...