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...well before dawn last Wednesday when Dr. Jack Copeland, the leading heart surgeon at Tucson's University Medical Center, had to face the grim truth: his patient was dying. Thomas Creighton, a 33-year-old Arizona auto mechanic, had undergone transplant surgery 24 hours earlier to replace a heart , ravaged by two heart attacks and cardiomyopathy, a progressive disease of the heart muscle. Right from the start there were problems with the transplanted organ, and a pacemaker had to be used. Then Creighton's body began rejecting the heart. At 3 a.m. he went into cardiac arrest...
...experimenting with the "Phoenix heart," the invention of Kevin Cheng, a dental surgeon. Vaughn was stunned; the heart was years away from FDA approval and had been tested only twice in animals. "It was like a bomb falling from the sky," he recalls. Still he agreed to helicopter to Tucson immediately with Cheng and his invention...
...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 to respond...
...case of first come, first served. Vaughn arrived in Tucson at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 3 1/2 hours ahead of the Utah team. By then, Creighton had been on the heart-lung machine for nearly six hours. Says Vaughn, the choice was clear: "Either we try the artificial heart or we turn off the machine and tell Creighton's mother that her son is dead." After three hours of surgery, the pump was in place...
Some of those fears are justified. In Tucson last year, a drifter kidnaped an eight-year-old girl. She is still missing. After Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal was left open around the clock to accommodate the homeless on cold winter nights, commuters complained of being hassled and one man was found dead of head injuries. The terminal is now closed from 1:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. And in The Bronx three weeks ago, three men living at a shelter for the homeless were charged with kidnaping a doctor and torturing him for an hour before leaving...