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...question about it, less than two days after undergoing two arduous operations, Bill Schroeder, a retired Government quality-control inspector from Jasper, Ind., was as sharp as a tack and feeling frisky...
...Friday Schroeder tested a new portable power system for the artificial heart. For 22 minutes in the afternoon, and an hour later that evening, he was free of the 323-lb., air-driven unit that normally runs the heart, and was hooked up to a small, 11-Ib. device encased in a leather shoulder bag. The portable system worked flawlessly though there were two breathless 3-sec. intervals when the heart stopped beating, as technicians switched from one system to the other. Afterward, Schroeder thanked the inventor of the device, Engineer Peter Heimes of Aachen, West Germany, and shook...
Doctors at Louisville's Humana Hospital Audubon were astounded by Schroeder's rapid progress and by his good humor, which, noted Dr. Allan Lansing, medical director of the hospital's heart institute, "is more important in his recovery than most medicines...
Even when he was wincing in pain as attendants tried to weigh him, Schroeder managed to get off a ones-liner. "I'm going to remember this," she griped at the staff. "I want the name of everybody in this room, starting with the big guy," he said, I pointing at the 6-ft., 5-in. DeVries. In the view of Schroeder's wife of 32 years, Margaret, her husband appeared to be "more comfortable" last week "than he had been for months before the implant." She told a news conference, "Once we went down toward that operating...
From the beginning, Schroeder's treatment seemed to go more smoothly than that of his predecessor, Seattle Dentist Barney Clark, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart. Clark's surgery and his 112 days of life with the man-made pump were fraught with life-and-death crises. "I felt certain that he would die on the operating table," reflected Dr. Robert Jarvik, 38, designer of the Jarvik-7 heart used in both patients. This time, he said, "I felt the opposite...