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...heart recipients as Barney Clark, Jack Burcham and William Schroeder (who remains alive but brain-impaired after nearly 350 days with the Jarvik-7), the tide seems to be turning away from the use of artificial pumps as permanent fixtures. Instead, surgeons are beginning to implant them as emergency stopgap measures. This change of emphasis became apparent at a meeting in Washington last month attended by most of the world's leading implant surgeons. Several felt that the artificial heart, in its current form, is simply too crude and too risky to be widely used on a long-term basis...
...year-old Phoenix assistant grocery manager was eating solid food, walking with help and doing leg and arm exercises. Drummond's steady progress seemed to augur well for the next phase of his treatment: a second operation, to remove the mechanical device, which had been implanted only as a stopgap measure, and to replace it with a human donor heart...
...Such stopgap measures are desperately needed. "There is a tremendous shortage of donor organs for infants," says Dr. Thomas Starzl, a leading liver transplant surgeon at Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital. He estimates that eleven out of twelve of his infant patients who are now waiting for liver transplants will die before suitable donors can be found. Baby Fae has already had one salutary effect. According to Barbara Schulman, coordinator for the Regional Organ Procurement Agency at UCLA, over the past three weeks the number of prospective infant donors referred to the agency has soared...
...meantime, Congress passed stopgap measures to keep the Government running for a few days or hours...
...loss of the satellite means that forecasters will have to make do with pictures sent from GOES 6, currently stationed over the Pacific. As a stopgap remedy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service are moving GOES 6 to a more easterly position, where it will be able to monitor the continental U.S. and part of the Atlantic. The maneuver, which calls for a carefully choreographed pattern of propellant bursts, could take nearly three weeks...