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...femoral vein above the knee, where some of his previous clots had formed. The additional clots (doctors could not be certain that they were new ones) were found higher in his leg. Dr. Scott H.M. Driscoll, the Memorial Hospital radiologist who did the venogram, described Nixon's deep venous system as "99 and 44/100% clotted...
...people who read about Barbara Triano [July 5] and see a glucose bottle run dry will panic. Venous pressure is higher than air pressure and air will not enter a vein unless it is forced in. The only thing that happens when a glucose bottle runs dry is that some of the glucose remains in the tubing. I offer this correction so that we won't have to give treatment for hysteria along with our glucose infusions...
...everything wrong in building her heart. The two "great vessels" were hooked up in reverse: the aorta, which is supposed to send oxygenated blood from the left lower chamber out to the body, emerged instead from the right lower chamber; the pulmonary artery, which is supposed to send used venous blood from the right lower chamber to the lungs for oxygenation, was connected where the aorta should have been. To make matters worse, the outflow of blood from the heart through the pulmonary artery was severely restricted by stenosis (narrowing...
...inch by 10-inch piece of the omentum, the apron of fat that lies over the intestines. Dr. Vineberg closes the diaphragm incision and wraps the omentum around the heart. Although it has been cut away from its natural blood supply, it soon develops new arterial and venous connections, and shares its generous blood flow with the heart muscle...
...This wing," says the Clinical Center's Director Jack Masur, "will give our surgical investigators a new resource. It will give them information that they only guessed at before, or got only spasmodically-such things as systolic, diastolic and also venous blood pressure, blood temperature as well as body temperature, blood loss since the operation began." All the cables from the monitoring equipment that supplies such information are plugged into a junction box mounted in a pedestal at one end of the operating table.*From there, a cable in the floor carries the information to the central recording rooms...