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...Karp had briefly raised all sorts of expectations the world over. His death immediately touched off an angry controversy over the wisdom of trying out the device without further experimentation. It also brought into the open a feud that has long simmered between two noted surgeons: Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who implanted the mechanical heart in Karp, and the equally famous Dr.Michael E. DeBakey...
Starkly Explicit. Cooley said that his decision to use the artificial heart, developed by Argentine-born Dr. Domingo Liotta, was made on the spur of the moment. "It was an act of desperation," Cooley admitted. "I was concerned, of course, because this had never been done before. But we had to put up one Sputnik to start the space program, and we had to start here some place...
...desperate moments began even before the controversial heart started pumping life back into Karp, 47, a printing estimator from Skokie, 111. Cooley warned Karp that if his badly damaged heart proved to be beyond repair, it might become necessary to use the experimental plastic device. Because the artificial heart is believed to cause serious damage to the blood if left in the body for too long, Cooley, along with Karp's family, issued a nationwide appeal for a human heart to replace it as quickly as possible. It was a starkly explicit appeal,calling for a person "with irreversible...
With the artificial heart in place, Cooley led these tubes out through the cut in Karp's chest wall. The heart-lung machine was switched off and the console switched on. At a slow-normal heart rate, the pump alternately sent a volume of carbon dioxide under pressure into sacs in the artificial heart to force blood out of the ventricles to the lungs and the rest of the body, then relaxed this pressure to let the heart refill with blood...
...hands and wiggle his toes. Next morning, with a breathing tube removed from his throat, he said a few words. His wife Shirley issued an appeal for a heart donor. At week's end, though no donor was yet in sight, Karp was holding up well and Surgeon Cooley was standing by, eager to remove the artificial device and replace it with a natural heart...