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As doctors struggled to keep the dying man alive, Copeland's assistants made desperate calls to organ-procurement agencies, hoping to find another human donor heart for him. None was available. Copeland then made a bold decision. He opted to use a virtually untested artificial heart to sustain Creighton until...
Friday afternoon, despite Copeland's extraordinary efforts, Creighton died, having survived for eleven hours with an artificial heart and nearly 36 hours with a second human heart transplant. Had he fully regained consciousness, he would have learned that he had made medical history: in the space of four days his...
As Creighton's time on the heart-lung machine ticked on with no donor heart in sight, Copeland got permission from the patient's family to try an artificial heart. He called Heart Surgeon Cecil Vaughn of St. Luke's Hospital in Phoenix, who for two years has been experimenting...
It was a 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 bright artificial green of an Astroturf carpet covers the floor of Briggs Athletic Center, and when spring sports practices end for the day, the gym sits silent and empty.